Chapter 17 Voacb.

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Great Plains

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first thing people going west encountered. treeless, flat, grassy hillocks, from mississippi to rockies.

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"Crowd Nobody"

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an ignorant statement said by Horace Greeley, telling people to move west and dont acknowledge the indians already settled there,and act like you own the place.

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"Indian Country"

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the name that government called the land west of the mississippi, the moved many eastern tribes there. no white person could enter indian country without a license.

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Chivington Massacre

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happened because white people went into indiain country, they asked for the governments protection. there was conflict between two tribes, once they thought conflict was over one chief moced his tribe to sand creek. colonel chivington attacked this tribe while they were sleeping. the indians were putting up signs of surrendering but that didnt stop chivington from massacring all.

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Red Cloud

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chief of the sioux tribe, wasnt too happy about the government trying to connect mining towns through his hunting grounds.

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Fetterman Massacre

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chief red cloud pursued fetterman's army, led them into an ambush, and killed all 82 of his soldiers.

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Buffalo Soldiers

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African American calvarymen on the western frontier.

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Red River War

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the u.s. army and buffalo soldiers killed off the kiowa and comanche's that rampaged through the texas panhandle, at the red river battle in 1874-1875

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Sitting Bull

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famous medicine man for the sioux tribe.

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Crazy horse

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a great war chief for the sioux tribe.

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George Armstrong Custer

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Lieutenant that led army very eager to take victory. surrounded indians thinking it was a small group when really it was the 2500 sioux warriors, the largest settlement ever. custer and his army died.

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7th cavalry

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encountered 2500 sioux when they pushed ahead, every one died

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nez perce tribe

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oregon tribe , rebelled against government, tried to flee to canada, and beat the gov in a lot of battles but died of hunger/disease in oklahoma

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chief joseph

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chief of nez perce tribe.

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wovoka

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messiah who saw vision that told of ghost dances

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gold rush of 1849

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hundreds of thousands of people went to the western shores of cali. and oregon to pan for gold.

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ghost dance

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A religious dance of Native Americans looking for communication with the dead

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Wounded Knee Massacre

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It was the last armed conflict between the Great Sioux Nation and the United States of America and of the Indian Wars.

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Assimilation

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A common phonological process by which the phonetics of a speech segment becomes more like that of another segment in a word.

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Court of Indian Offenses

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A court made for Indians that broke govt rule.

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Dawes Severalty Act

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It divided tribal lands into small plots for distribution among members of the tribe.

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Extermination of the Buffalo

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it says it in the name. Ever buffalo that could be killed, was killed.

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"Buffalo Bill" Cody

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Professional hunter that was trained to help kill the buffalo.

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overland trail

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the trail to the west which many people used to cross.

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homestead act of 1862

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gave 160 acres of land to anyone who would pay a $10 registration fee and swear to live on and farm the land for 5 years.

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timber culture act of 1873

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An adjustment of the homestead act. gave an extra 160 acres if the residents planted trees on 25% of the land in four years.

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timber and stone act of 1878

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allowed anyone in california, nevada, oregon, and washington to buy land for $2.50 an acre

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national reclamation act

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aka newlands act. set aside most of the money earned for irrigation in arid regions

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"hydraulic society"

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due to dams and irrigation water flooded into dry lands which cities were able to form on.

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wyoming stock growers association

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is a historic American cattle organization created in 1873. ... to standardize and organize the cattle industry,

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Exodusters

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African Americans who fled the Southern United States for Kansas in 1879 and 1880. After the end of Reconstruction

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dry farming

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A type of farming practiced in semi-arid or dry grassland areas without irrigation

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national grange

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is a fraternal organization for American farmers that encourages farm families to band together for their common economic and political well-being.

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bonanza

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large farms in the United States performing large-scale operations, mostly growing and harvesting wheat.

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turners thesis

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is the argument that the origin of American exceptionalism has been the American frontier,

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vaqueros

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a mexican cowboy

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foreign miners tax

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was for the chinese, the whites thought the chinese were finding gold that they didnt deserve.

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chinese exclusion act

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This act provided an absolute 10-year moratorium on Chinese labor immigration

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comstock lode

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first big discovery of gold and silver in virginia city,nevada

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placer mining

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mining of alluvial deposits for minerals

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instant cities

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cities in the west rapidly growing from influential events occurring at the time for example san fransisco and the gold rush

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las gorras blancas

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aka the white caps, believed in reclaiming the land they lost to anglo farmers

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romualdo pacheco

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politician in california, hispanic governor