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Sand creek massacre |
1864 u.s. army persuaded a group of cheyanne to stop raiding farms and return to their Colorado reservation. But then the army killed 150 burned camp |
Congress condemed the actions but didnt punish the comannder |
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Battle of little big horn |
1876 . To stop raids on settlers by the sioux the gov comanded them to leave. Instead the Indians (led by sitting bull, brought cheyanne, arapaho to the river near l.b. the officers attacked. The officers died |
Great victory for indians |
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Wounded knee masacre |
1890 dec. Army troops captured some of sitting bulls and took them to a camp at wounded knee. They fought. 300 indians died |
Mean officers |
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Dawes act |
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Gave indians junk |
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Chisholm trail |
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Cowboy trail |
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Homestead act |
You got land |
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Vocab |
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Sherman anti trust act |
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Inventions |
Streetcars: horse drawn passenger vehicles. By the 1830s horsecars/streetcars were all over the streets. By 1900 most cities had trolleys Subways: the first subway in the U.S was in 1897 Automobiles: it was first called the "horseless carriage" in 1893 charles and frank Duryea built the first motor car Airplanes : two American brothers built a successful plane (first one ) one dec 17 1903 orville and wilbur wright flew it at kitty hawk north carolina |
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Communication and revolution |
Telegraph : 1837 samuel F. B. Morse planted his method for sending messages instantly over wires with electricity. (Morse code) Telephone :alexander and graham bell made it in 1876 Typewriter : Christopher latham sholes developed the first practical typewriter in 1867. He alter improved it |
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Ellis island |
An immigration center in 1892 in New York Harbor |
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Americanization |
Native-born Americans were driven by fear and charity to blend into American society. |
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Tenements |
Run down apartments for immigrants. |
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Settlement house |
A place where voulenteers offered imigrants services such as English language and job training courses |
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Social gospel |
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Populist party |
Alliance members, farmers, labor leaders, and reformsers. It lasted a few years |
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Jim crow laws |
To create and enforce segregation in public places. The first passed in Tennesse in 1881 required seperate railway cars for Africans and Americans |
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Lynching |
Murderer of an individual by a group or a mob |
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