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27 Cards in this Set
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Bureau of Indian Affairs(BIA)
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Government agency responsible for managing American Indian issues.
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John M. Chivington
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U.S. Army colonel
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Sand Creek Massacre
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Sand Creek was a scene of murder and brutality.
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Sitting Bull
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emerged as an important leader of Sioux resistance
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George Armstrong Custer
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600 members of the U.S. Army 7th cavalry and him reached the American Indian camp
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Battle of the Little Bighorn
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proved to be the last victory for the Sioux
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Wovoka
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A Paiute Wovoka began a religious movement known as the Ghost Dance.
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Massacre at Wounded Knee
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The incident marked the end of the body conflict between soldiers and american indians on the great plains.
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Chief Joseph
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The Nez Perce leader
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Geronimo
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Apache leader; him and 75 other followers fled the territory
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Sarah Winnemuca
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called attention to the problems of the American Indians
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Dawes General Allotment Act
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Required that indian lands be surveyed and that american indian families receive receive an allotment of 160 acres of reservation land for farming
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Homestead Act
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Any citizen or intended citizen to select any surveyed land up to 160 acres and to gain title to it after five years
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Pacific Railway Act
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Gave lands to railroad companies to develop a railroad line linking the East and the West coasts.
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Morrill Act
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granted a total of more than 17 million acres of federal land to the states
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U.S. Department of Agriculture
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helped farmers adapt to their new environment
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Bonanza Farm
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Abundant land enabled some companies to create a new kind of large-scale operation
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Texas Longhorn
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their meat was tough and stringy but they were hardly able to travel long distances on little water
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Long Drives
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overland treks covered hundreds of miles and lasted several months.
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Railhead
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a town located along a railroad, where brokers brought cattle to ship east on railroad cars.
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Open Range
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free grazing land
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Joseph Glidden
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illinois farmer
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Barbed Wire
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a cheap fencing material
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Comstack Load
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one of the worlds most richest silver veins
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William H. Seward
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negotiated the purchase of Alaska in 1867
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Hydraulic mining
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water shot at high pressure ripped away gravel and dirt to expose placed soil choked rivers and caused flooding
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Hard-rock Mining
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involved sinking deep shafts to obtain ore locked in veins of rocks.
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