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    Name___________________________Date________ ➢ Chapter 26. The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution‚ 1865-1896. Theme 1: After the Civil War‚ whites overcame the Plains Indians’ fierce resistance and settled the Great West‚ bringing to a close the long frontier phase of American history. Theme 2: The farmers who populated the West found themselves the victims of an economic revolution in agriculture. Trapped

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    American Agriculture DBQ

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    1865-1900 was the period when the United States was changing from the Reconstruction period to the new Industrial age. The new change of the United States also changed the American agriculture for the citizens. The American agriculture changed because new technology was advancing‚ government policy was treating some people unfair‚ and economic conditions were rough for many. As the United States grows larger in population and larger in land‚ technology was becoming newer and better as well.

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    can be described as cool and wet for most of the year. Variety of vegetation that grows in the Appalachian region. 3. Deciduous Trees: Trees that drop their leaves each autumn are called ’deciduous’ 4. The main river that runs through the interior Plains?: The Mississippi river 5. Current that brings cold water south from the Arctic?: The east Greenland current 6. Deposits of coal and oil are found in this rock?: Sedimentary 7. The coastal Plaines: Area of flat‚ low-lying land adjacent to a seacoast

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    Crow Tribe

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    My tribe is interesting in that they treated war differently than European countries did. The Crow Tribe along with other Plains Tribes (category of tribes that mine is in) didn’t fight necessarily over territory but more for reputation and courage. The Plains Indians also rarely fought to the death or destroyed each other’s villages. Instead‚ their war customs were mostly just injuring their opponent in battle but without harming him‚ stealing an enemy’s weapon or horse‚ or forcing the other tribe’s

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    worst man-made environmental disasters ever recorded. Data has also shown that over the Atlantic Ocean the temperature was much warmer than usual for the season‚ and climate change was drastically affecting all of North America. However‚ the Great Plains were so terribly unprepared in their cropping techniques that after the drought took the vegetation‚ wind erosion destroyed what land was left and subsequently created the Dust Bowl.

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    Separate but Equal Essay

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    Brooke Lucas Professor Ramirez History 147 30 October 2013 Essay Question 1)  How was the policy of “separate but equal” established and what exactly did it mean?  Provide specific examples of how “separate but equal” was applied in the United States. How it started: Plessy vs. Ferguson case. Plessy: 7/8ths white 1/8th black boarded an all white train car. The conductor asked of his race‚ so he told him. He sent him to the all colored railcar. Plessy refused and he was immediately arrested.

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    Hierarchy of Teepees

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    teepee) is a Lakota name for a conical tent traditionally made of animal skins and wooden poles used by the nomadic tribes and sedentary tribal dwellers (when hunting) of the Great Plains. Tipis are stereotypically associated with Native Americans in general but Native Americans from places other than the Great Plains mostly used different types of dwellings. The term "wigwam" (a domed structure) is sometimes incorrectly used to refer to a tipi. The tipi was durable‚ provided warmth and comfort

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    Dust Bowl Decline

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    Policemen started patrolling the border so that the population would not increase in their area. (Mass Exodus From the Plains)The increase in population was becoming a problem in safe states‚ so they had to limit the amount of people that could live there because so many people were moving.“The Dust Bowl exodus was the largest migration in American history.” (Mass Exodus From the Plains) If states had to be blocked off from the people in The Dust Bowl‚ then it must have been a huge population loss in

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    going through the plains‚ storms were very dangerous. Many of the deaths were even because the settlers fell out of the wagons and were crushed by the wheels and axles. When settlers were infected with disease‚ the cause could have been dirty water and/or milk from a cow that ate poisonous weeds. Back when the Oregon Trail started‚ things were very different than they are now. In the passage‚ Williams Reed states “The stones for the first grist were brought across the plains by wagon.” This detail

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    I woke up‚ knowing something exciting would happen today. Today‚ I am going to the South Plains Fair to talk to a young lady‚ Sarah Allen. I am nervous‚ but anticipating a great experience. The South Plains fair has benefited many people‚ and today I will interview one of them. Getting to the fair is no easy task. From my house‚ you have to take the Loop all the way around until you reach downtown Lubbock. Maneuvering many twists and turnarounds‚ I know I’m getting close. After some frustration

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