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30 Cards in this Set
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Bureau of Indian Affairs
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Government agency
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John M. Chivington
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US colonel
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Sand Creek Massacre
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Most women and children died
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Sitting Bull
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Tatanka Iyotake
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Battle of Little Bighorn
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Last victory for the Sioux
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George Armstrong Custer
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Lieutenant Colonel
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Massacre at wounded knee
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Shocked many people
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Chief Joseph
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The leader
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Geronimo
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Apache leader
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Sarah Winnemucca
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Called attention to the Indians
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Dawes General Allotment Act
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Required lands to be surveyed
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Homestead Act
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Permitted any citizen to have up to 160 acres of land
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Pacific Railway Act
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Gave lands to railroad companies
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Morrill Act
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Granted 17 million acres
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Exodusters
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African American settlers
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Benjamin Singleton
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70 year old slave
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Sod houses
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Buildings made from chunks of wood
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US Department of Agriculture
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Helped farmers adapt to new environments
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Bonanza farm
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Owned by large companies
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Texas longhorn
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New breed
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Long drives
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Loaded cattle on 3,000
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Railhead
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Town located at the end of the railroad
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Open Range
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Free gazing land
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Joseph Glidden
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Illinois farmer
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Barbed wire
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Cheap fencing material
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Comstock Lode
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Worlds richest silver veins
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Patio process
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Separated gold from quartz
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William H. Seward
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US Secretary of State
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Hydraulic mining
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Water shot at high pressure ripped away
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Hard rock mining
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Involved deep sinking ships
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