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Chapter 26: The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution Items you should be looking for

Comstock Lode. After Gold Fever had swept the West. Henry Comstock mistakenly discovered enormous deposits of pure silver in sticky, blue clay as he was prospecting for gold in the Nevada territory in 1858 spurring a sliver rush in 1859. Prospectors were called the '59ers.News of silver deposits

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Chapter 26: The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution Items you should be looking for

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    1. Chapter 26: The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution Items you should be looking for Comstock Lode Homestead Act Life on Frontier Sod houses Battle of Sand Creek [massacre] Battle of Little Big Horn Battle of Wounded Knee [massacre] Frederick Jackson Turner Helen Hunt Jackson Reservation system Dawes Severalty Act

    2. Comstock Lode After Gold Fever had swept the West. Henry Comstock mistakenly discovered enormous deposits of pure silver in sticky, blue clay as he was prospecting for gold in the Nevada territory in 1858 spurring a sliver rush in 1859. Prospectors were called the ’59ers. News of silver deposits caused the population of Nevada to explode and it was soon after admitted as a state. The profits reaped from the silver mines were useful in funding the U.S. Civil War.

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