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42 Cards in this Set
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Great Plains
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Treeless, nearly flat, an endless "sea of grassy hillocks" extending from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains
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"Crowd nobody"
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Greeley's propaganda phrase to convince New Yorkers to move west and have all the land they need
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"Indian country"
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American west used by the government to push all the Indians into reserves
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Chivington Massacre
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Chief Black Kettle took his 700 tribesmen to Colorado to surrender. Colonel John M. Chivington and his men massacred them in their sleep
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Red Cloud
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The Sioux chief that massacred Fetterman and his men
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Fetterman massacre
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Red Cloud lured Captain William J. Fetterman and his 82 men into the wilderness and killed them all
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Buffalo Soldiers
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2000 African American cavalrymen that got their name from the Cheyenne Indians
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Red River War
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War from 1874-1875 where the US Military crushed the Kiowa and Comanche Indians
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Sitting Bull
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Sioux Medicine Man in the Sioux War of 1877
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Crazy Horse
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A Sioux chief that led his people to the battle of Little Big Horn
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George Armstrong Custer
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Lieutenant in the US Army, responsible for the death of his men when attacked by 2500 Sioux warriors
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7th Cavalry
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Chased down the fleeing Ghost Dancers led by Big Foot in the Wounded Knee Massacre
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Nez Perce Tribe
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Attempted to flee to Canada, fought the military until they ran out of supplies, and were sent to Oklahoma
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Chief Joseph
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Sioux chief who led his people on a 75 day flight from the US army towards Canada
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Wovoka
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The Sioux paiute messiah who spoke of the Ghost Dances
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Ghost Dance
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A set of dances and rites created by Wovoka to eliminate the white people and bring back the Indians
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Wounded Knee Massacre
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200 Sioux were gunned down by the US military with new machine guns
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Assimilation
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Education, land policy, and federal laws to eradicate tribal society
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Court of Indian Offences
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A government entity to deal with Indians who broke the laws set for them
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Dawes Severalty Act
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1887, each head of house gets 160 acres, single adults 80 acres, and children 40 acres
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Extermination of the Buffalo
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With the transcontinental railway, people could easily kill buffalo to get at the Indians. "Kill every buffalo you can, every buffalo dead is an Indian gone."
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Buffalo Bill Cody
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A professional hunter who set out to kill buffalo
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Gold Rush of 1849
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The beginning of the movement west to California over the Overland Trail
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Overland Trail
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The main path to California and Oregon from the east during the Gold Rush of 1849
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Homestead Act of 1862
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Gave 160 acres to anyone willing to pay $10 and pledge to cultivate the land for 5 years
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Timber Culture Act of 1873
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Additional 160 acres to anyone willing to plant trees on a quarter of it
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Timber and Stone Act of 1878
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160 acres of "unfit for cultivation" in California, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington for $2.50
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National Reclamation Act
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Set aside money to irrigate arid western states
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"Hydraulic" Society
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Western cities whose farms survive only on irrigation
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Romualdo Pacheco
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Californian Governor and later, Congressman
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Las Gorras Blancas
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Secret Society to attack invasive ranchers near Las Vegas
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"Instant Cities"
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Cities where there was great mining, foresting, or farming potential. People flooded in and made it an instant city.
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Placer Mining
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Surface mining for the average man on rivers.
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Comstock Lode
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Black ore in Nevada that was a combination of gold and silver and was worth $3876 a ton.
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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1882 suspended immigration of Chinese for 10 years
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Foreign Miners Tax
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1850 California forced immigrant miners to have a monthly $20 licensing fee
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Vaqueros
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Mexican cowboys who developed techniques of branding, roundups, and roping
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Wyoming Stock Growers Association
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Group of cattle ranchers who took trail law and enforced it as formal law in Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, Montana, and the Dakotas
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Exodusters
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Freed slaves who fled west for freedom and opportunity
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Dry Farming
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Methods of farming to keep plants growing with little rainfall
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National Grange
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Founded in 1867 by Oliver H. Kelley, it provided social, cultural, and educational activities for its farmer members
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Turners Thesis
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Frederick Jackson Turner's portrayal of the west. He spoke of it's importance to America's expansion
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