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32 Cards in this Set
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Bureau of Indian Affairs
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responsible for managing American Indian Issues
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John M. Chivington
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U.S. Army General.
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Sand Creek Massacre
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200 black kettle women and children killed.
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Sitting Bull
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important Indian leader
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George Armstrong Custer
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U.S. Army 7th Calvary General
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Battle of little big horn
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Last victory for Sioux
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Wovoka
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creator of the4 GHOST DANCE
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Massacre at wounded Knee
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7th ca.vary had been avenged
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Geronimo
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apache leader
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chief joseph
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killed 4 white settlers.
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Sarah winnemucca
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called attention to American Indians
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Dawes General Allotment act
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Indian territories must be surveyed by indian families.
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Homestead act
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any cittizen could get up to 160 acres of land after 5 years of living on it.
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Pacific Railway act
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gave lands to rail ways to link east and west coasts.
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Morrill Act
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gave 17 mil acres to the states
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Benjimin Singelton
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70 year old former slave
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U.S. Department of agriculture
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Helped farmers adapt to their new environments.
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Willa Cather
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Writer who found Nebraska "fascinating"
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Texas Long Horn
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English and Spanish in bred new species.
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Long Drives
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cowboys drag up to 3,000 cattle up north
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Railhead
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a town located along a railroad
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Open Range
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Free grazing land
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Joseph Glidden
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farmer that invented barb wire
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Barbed Wire
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cheap fencing material
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Comstock Lode
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one of the worlds richest silver veins
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patio process
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uses mercury to extract silver from ore.
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William H. Seward
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negotiated the purchase of alaska
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Hydraulic mining
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high powered water shot to wash away dirt to reveal jewels and what not
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Hard rock mining
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involved sinking deep shafts to obtain ore locked vaine rocks
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sod houses
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chunks of heavy top sol used to make houses
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Exodusters
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affrican american western settlers.
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bonanza farm
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farmers buying up smaller farmers and having them work for them
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