Ap2 Vocab For Chapter 17!

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Great plains

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treeless, nearly flat land extended from Mississippi RIver to ROcky Mountains

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"Crowd nobody"

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????

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"indian country"

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Land west of the Missippi. After the civil war, the govt. moved indians there with firm treaty guarantees.

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Chivington Massacre

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Nov. 29,1864: Colorado Militia led by john Chivington attacked a group of 700 indians

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Red Cloud

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Sioux chief, was determained to stop the Bozeman trail

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Fetterman Massacre

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Red Cloud lured Captain William Fetterman into the wooods and killed him and his followers

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buffalo soldiers

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african american cavalrymen on the western fronteir

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red river war

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1874-1875 ended warfare in the southwest

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sitting bull

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famous indian medicine man

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Fetterman Massacre

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Red Cloud lured Captain William Fetterman into the wooods and killed him and his followers

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crazy horse

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great war chief; stopped prospectors from crossing Native American hunting grounds

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buffalo soldiers

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african american cavalrymen on the western fronteir

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red river war

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1874-1875 ended warfare in the southwest

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sitting bull

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famous indian medicine man

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crazy horse

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great war chief; stopped prospectors from crossing Native American hunting grounds

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George Armstrong cluster

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under flamboyant lieutenant. pushed ahead the stopping of the prospectors. Largely responsible for the loss

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7th Cavalry

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Custer's old regiment; participated in the wounded knee massacre

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Nez Perce Tribe

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a people who had warmly welcomed Lewis and Clark in 1805, rebelled against government policy

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chief Joseph

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Led the Nez Perce Tribe on a fight lasting 75 days and covering 1,321 miles.

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Wovoka

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created Ghost dances

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Gohst dance

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a set of dances and rites that grew from a vision of a Paiute Messiah

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wounded Knee Massacre

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in december 1809, troopers of the seventh cavalry, under orders to stop ghost dance religion among the Sioux, took chief big foot ans his followers to a camp on wounded knee creek in South Dakota. 200 native americans were killed

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Assimilation

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"americanizing" indian tribes

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Court of indian offenses

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created in 1882 by congress, to try natives americans who broke govt. rules

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John Quincy Adams

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1825-1829

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Extermination of the buffalo

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as white settlers pushed wwest with the transcontinental road, the killed the buffalo for sport and in an act to hurt the native americans.

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Buffalo Bill Cody

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Once people found that buffalo hides made valueable leather, proffesional hunters like Buffalo Bill Cody were sent out, killing millions of buffalo

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Gold Rush 1849

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a major western migration to claifornia in search of gold

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overland Trail

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a trail leading west that many travelers used to get to california

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Homestead Act 1862

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gave 160 acres of land to anyone who would pay a $10 registration fee and pledge to live on and cultivate the land for 5 years

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timber culture act of 1873

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atempt to fix the homestead act, gave an additional 160 acres to homesteaders if they planted trees on a fourth of it within 4 years

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national reclaimation act

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set aside most of the proceeds from public sales of lands in 16 western states to finance irrigation in arid states

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"hyraulic" society

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rich in crops and cities but also in danger of running out of the precious water the city reliedon

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romualdo pacheco

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an aristocratic native son, served as governor in california and then went to congress

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timber and stone acr of 1878

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applied only to land unfitt for cultivation. permitted anyone in Nevada, California, Washingotn and Oregon to buy up to 160 acres for $2.50 an acre

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las gorras blancas

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a secret organization of spanish americans

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"instant cities"

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San fFan., Salt Lake City, and Denver

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placer mining

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required less skill, technology, or capital

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comstock lode

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an ore deposit that was the richest deposit in mining history

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chinese exclusion act

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passed in 1875. excluded chinese for ten years. denied chinese nationals living in the U.S. citizenship

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foreign miners tax

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charged all foreign born miners a $20 a month license fee

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vaqueros

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mexican version of cowboys

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wyoming stock growers association

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had four huindred members owning 2 million cattle. the laws of the association were often the law of the land

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exodusters

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people who left their homes in Louisianna, Mississippi, and Texas to establish new, freer lives in Kansas

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Dry farming

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helped compensate for lack of rainfall. farmers plowed furrows 12 to 14 inches deep and filled them with a dry mulch to loosen the saoil and allow for evaporation

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National grange

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provided social, cultural and educational activities for its members

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Bonanza Farms

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run by the new machinery and financed with outside capital.

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turners thesis

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stated that th ecistence of a frontier ans its settlement had shaped ameerican character; given way to independence, individualism, and self confidence