Chapter 16 - The Conquest of the Far West

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Poor ventilation

________ meant large accumulations of poisonous carbon dioxide, which caused dizziness, nausea, and headaches.

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Womens roles

________ were largely domestic and artistic: raising children, cooking, gathering roots and berries, preparing hides, and creating many of the impressive artworks of tribal culture.

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America

The cowboy had become perhaps the most widely admired popular hero in ________ and a powerful and enduring symbol of the important American ideal of the "natural man ..

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Homestead Act

The ________ of 1862 permitted settlers to buy plots of 160 acres for a small fee if they occupied the land they purchased for five years and improved it.

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Chinese

The ________ usually occupied the lower rungs of the employment ladder, working as common laborers, servants, and unskilled factory hands.

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New Mexico

In ________, the centers of Spanish speaking society were the farming and trading communities the Spanish had established in the seventeenth century.

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Plains Indians

The buffalo, or bison, provided the economic basis for the ________ way of life.

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Utah

In ________, the Mormons granted women suffrage in an effort to stave off criticism of their practice of polygamy.

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California

In ________, Spanish settlement began in the eighteenth century with a string of Christian missions along the Pacific coast.

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Homestead Act

The ________ was intended as a progressive measure.

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