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Land grants that allowed for the building of the transcontinental railroads were Pacific Railway Act and Homestead Act Sells Land Pacific Railway Act The government gives you land as long as you utilize it Homestead Act How did the railroad affect the country? Helped create a national market Attempted to assimilate Native Americans into American society by dividing farming land and giving it to individual families Dawes Severality Act What are the factors ...

How did many Native Americans in the PNW resist assimilation during the late 19th century? - They adopted the dreamer religion. How did Seattle's Watcher on the Tower newspaper depict the Ku Klux Klan during the 19th-20th? - It viewed them as protective of American society. How did the arrival of a large number of successful Klondike gold miners in 1897 change Seattle's economic development? - Seattle became a major outfitting center for the Alaska trade in the northern goldfields, diver...

government's policy toward Native American land the government passed an act that designated the entire Great Plains as one enormous reservation, or land set aside for Native American tribes, the government changed its policy and created treaties that defined specific boundaries for each tribe, then they established boundaries for the Native Americans and forced them to live on the reservations, then they would backtrack and make the boundaries smaller economic opportunities that drew large...

APUSH- AMSCO period 6 Latest 2023 Graded A Great American Desert The vast arid territory which includes the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, and Western Plateau (this is in between the Mississippi River and Pacific Coast) was named this. Mining frontier The western states which had series of gold strikes including, Colorado, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Arizona, and South Dakota. Comstock Lode The major U.S. discovery of gold and silver (this produced over $340 million in gold and silver by 1890)...

AP World History Unit 6: Consequences of Industrialization Latest 2022 Graded A Imperialism A policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force. Social Darwinism The belief that only the fittest survive in human political and economic struggle. King Leopold II the Belgian king who opened up the African interior to European trade along the Congo River and by 1884 controlled the area known as the Congo Free State. Dutch East India Company Government-charte...

Walker War correct answers Conflicts between Mormon settlers and Utes created conflict. Settlers occupied lands used by Utes for hunting and fishing and suppress the New Mexican trade. The spark which ignited this conflict happened on July 17th 1853 when several Utes were trading at James Ivie's home near Springville when Ivie intervened in a dispute between a Ute man and his wife and ended up killing one of the men. The Springville militia was called out to try and calm the enraged Utes but de...

WJEC GCSE Germany in Transition Questions with Correct Answers 2023 Describe the events leading to the formation of the Weimar Government. Autumn 1918-German defeat in WW1 seemed imminent. 9th November-Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated and fled to Holland. New German Republic declared. Chancellor Ebert signed armistice. Seen as "Dolchstoss"-Stab in the back-by army January 19th 1919-1st elections held. Berlin too dangerous to run a government. Coalition formed as no party had a majority. ...

government's policy toward Native American land the government passed an act that designated the entire Great Plains as one enormous reservation, or land set aside for Native American tribes, the government changed its policy and created treaties that defined specific boundaries for each tribe, then they established boundaries for the Native Americans and forced them to live on the reservations, then they would backtrack and make the boundaries smaller economic opportunities that drew large...

WGU D189 Pacific NW History Final Exam Study Guide How did many Native Americans in the PNW resist assimilation during the late 19th century? - They adopted the dreamer religion. How did Seattle's Watcher on the Tower newspaper depict the Ku Klux Klan during the 19th-20th? - It viewed them as protective of American society. How did the arrival of a large number of successful Klondike gold miners in 1897 change Seattle's economic development? -Seattle became a major outfitting center f...

WGU D189 Survey of PNW History Latest 2023 Graded A+ Northwest Passage Legendary waterway connecting the Atlantic to Pacific Ocean. In 1774 British offered reqard to discover it First encounters in the PNW Spanish, French, Russian & British in early 18th century. (Americans had minor role before 1800s) What did Natives trade fur for Copper, blades, other goods Captain James Cook British explorer who traveled to the pacific in 1778 and traded with natives for sea otter pelts in Nootka Sound L...