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1 The West

2 Causes of the Westward Movement
Pull Factor Reason Number Three: Escape! Example: Criminals

3 Causes of the Westward Movement
Pull Factor Reason Number Three: Escape! Example: Exodusters

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5 Causes of the Westward Movement
Push Factor: Religious Persecution Example: Mormons

6 Life Out West Life out was known to be: Some of the problems Weather:
Resources: Soddies: Native Americans:

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8 Life Out West Women Because life was known to be: Voting:

9 Life out West Available jobs: Farming: Mining: Army Cowboys
Mechanical Reaper Steel Plow Mining: Sutter’s Mill Comstock Lode Army Buffalo Soldiers Cowboys

10 Life Out West Cowboys Their job: Myth about cowboys:
Cowboys didn’t get along with sheep herders because:

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12 Life Out West Transportation Transcontinental Railroad: Oregon Trail:
Necessary because: Finally completed: Oregon Trail:

13 Life Out West Biggest Problem for the U.S. government:
Biggest Conflicts included:

14 Sand Creek Massacre Key People: What happened:

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16 Battle of Little Big Horn
Key People: What happened:

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18 Nez Perce War Key People: What happened:

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20 Wounded Knee Key People: What happened:

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22 Other Key Terms Helen Hunt Jackson: Assimilation: Dawes Act:
Carlistle Indian Training School Oklahoma Land Rush:

23 Problems Faced by Farmers
Oliver Kelly decided: Formation of “the Grange” or “farmer cooperatives:” But then, the government decided that in order to combat the Panic of 1873, they would stop coining all silver money…which would dramatically cut the country’s money supply leading to:

24 Problems Faced by Farmers
Deflation causes: Problem is: Therefore farmers argued for: These silverites formed the political groups known as:

25 Problems Faced by Farmers
Knowing they would need more support, the farmer alliances later grew into the: The Populist party platform: Leader: Famous speech: Outcome:

26 Year Review- Key People
John Smith George Custer Pocahontas Abraham Lincoln William Sherman John Rolfe Thomas Jefferson George Washington Samuel Adams James K. Polk Andrew Johnson Tecumseh John Winthrop Andrew Jackson Dorothea Dix James Madison Alexander Hamilton Benjamin Franklin Stonewall Jackson John Quincy Adams John Adams Robert E. Lee James Monroe James Oglethorpe Baron von Steuben William Jennings Bryan Nat Turner Jefferson Davis John Chivington Ulysses S. Grant

27 Year Review- Key Events
XYZ Affair Hamilton’s Financial Plan Albany Plan of Union Proclamation of 1763 “Mr. Madison’s War” The Alamo Morrill Land Grant Act Pinckney’s Treaty Treaty of Ghent 54 40 or Fight Homestead Act Hayes-Tilden Compromise Black Codes Comstock Lode Battle of Gettysburg Battle of Saratoga Battle of Yorktown The 49ers Articles of Confederation Shay’s Rebellion Mayflower Compact Nullification Crisis Indian Removal Act Dawes Act Fort Sumter Compromise of 1850 Dred Scott v. Sandford “Bleeding Kansas” Cross of Gold Speech Transcendentalism

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