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APUSH- AMSCO period 6 Study Guide with Complete Solutions Great American Desert - Answer️️ -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 - Answe...

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Great American Desert - Answer✔️✔️-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 - Answer✔️✔️-The western states which had series of gold strikes

including, Colorado, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Arizona, and South Dakota.

Comstock Lode - Answer✔️✔️-The major U.S. discovery of gold and silver (this produced

over $340 million in gold and silver by 1890) which was responsible for Nevada entering

the Union in 1864.

Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) - Answer✔️✔️-Prohibited further immigration of Chinese

laborers to the U.S. in order to reduce competition for mining gold. This was also the

first major act of Congress to restrict immigration on the basis of race and nationality.

Cattle drives - Answer✔️✔️-Rounding cattle up and moving them from one area to

another by cowboys.

Barbed wire - Answer✔️✔️-Homesteaders had used these fencings to cut off the cattle

from accessing formerly open range.

Farming frontier - Answer✔️✔️-The Great Plains was mainly the farming frontier.

Settlement in the farming frontier was encouraged by the Homestead Act (which gave

160 acres of public land free to any family that settled on it for a period of five years).

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