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24 Cards in this Set
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Bureau of Indian Affairs
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Was the government agency responsible for managing American Indian issues
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John M. Chivington
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Was a U.S. Army Colonel
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Sand Creek Massacre
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200 of Black Kettles group most of them women and children died in this
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Sitting Bull
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A Lakota Sioux also known as Tatanka Iyotkae he was a very important leader
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George Armstrong
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Was a Lieutenant Colonel
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Battle of 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 religious movement know as the Ghost Dance
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Massacre at Wounded Knee
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Marked the end of the bloody conflict between soldiers and American Indians
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Chief Joseph
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He was the leader of the Nez Perce
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Geronimo
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He was the Apache leader
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Sarah Winnemucca
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She was a Paiute reformer, called attention to the problems of the American Indians
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Dawes General Allotment Act
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Which required that Indian lands be surveyed hat American Indian families receive an allotment of 160 acres
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Homestead Act
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Permitted any citizen or intended citizen to select any surveyed land up to 160 acres
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Pacific Railway Act
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Gave land to railroad companies to develop a railroad line
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The 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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Exodusters
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Also a name for African America's
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Bejamin Singleton
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A 70 year old former slave
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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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Enabled companies to create a new kind of large scale
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Long drives
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Cowboys herded as many as 3,000 cattle on these
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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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A farmer from Illinois
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Barbed wire
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A cheap fencing material
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