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Unit 7 Vocabulary **Enduring Vision Vocabulary**
 * 1) Plains Indians
 * 2) Treaty of Fort Laramie
 * 3) Board of Indian Commissioners
 * 4) Extermination of the buffalo
 * 5) Geronimo
 * 6) Ghost Dance
 * 7) Pacific Railroad Act – 1862
 * 8) Central Pacific Railroad
 * 9) Union Pacific Railroad
 * 10) Promontory Point, Utah – 1869
 * 11) Effects of the transcontinental railroads
 * 12) Homestead Act – 1862
 * 13) Settling the West
 * 14) Frontier communities
 * 15) Women’s suffrage in the west
 * 16) Boomtowns
 * 17) Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show
 * 18) Cowboy reality in the old west
 * 19) Oklahoma Land Rush – 1889
 * 20) Frederick Jackson Turner
 * 21) Turner’s Frontier Thesis
 * 22) Frontier Books and Myths
 * 23) Sierra Club
 * 24) Joseph McCoy
 * 25) John Wesley Powell
 * 26) John Muir

Enduring Vision Questions, Chapter 17


 * 1) Explain the meaning of Richard Pratt's motto, "Kill the Indian in him and save the man."
 * 2) Explain what attracted farmers to the Great Plains and some of the difficulties they faced in making a living from their farms.
 * 3) What happened to the Hispanic population of the Southwest after 1848?
 * 4) What was Frederick Jackson Turner's "frontier thesis"? How do today's historians regard it?
 * 5) Discuss the beginnings of the conservation movement. Who were some of its early advocates? What were their motives?