Unit 2 - Lesson 12-15

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Lobbyist

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Advocates for a cause, influences lawmakers

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Transcontinental Railroad

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Connected east and west coasts of the USA

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Reservations

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Land designated for Native American tribes.

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Vaqueros

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Mexican cowboys influencing cattle-driving in the American West

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Chisholm Trail

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Cattle route from Texas to Kansas

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Exodusters

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African Americans who migrated to Kansas after the Civil War

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Populism

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Political movement supporting farmers and workers

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Purpose of the Homestead Act

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Granting settlers land in the Great Plains

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Assimilation in Native American history

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Forced integration into white American culture

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Dawes Act

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Distributed Native American land to settlers