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20 Cards in this Set
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Reservation
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Federal lands set aside for American Indians
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Crazy Horse
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A chief in late 1866 that lead a group of Sioux that ambushed 81 cavalry troops near the Sioux hunting grounds, killing them all.
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George Armstong Custer
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Lieutenant Colonel in the north in 1874 found gold in the Black Hills of Dakota Territory and the U.S. Government responded by insisting the the Sioux sell their reservation land in the Black Hills.
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Sitting Bull
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A Sioux leader that protested the demands to sell their reservation. "what treaty that whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one. "What treaty that the white man ever made with us have they kept? Not One." Fighting then broke out with the U.S. Army and Sioux.
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Battle of Little Bighorn
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The worst defeat the U.S. Army had suffered in the West, and the Sioux's last major victory. Later crazy horse was killed in prison after surrendering to the U.S. Army.
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Massacre at Wounded Knee
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The U.S. Troops began firing and killed and about 150 Indians near Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota. This attack was the last major event of more than 25 years of war on the Great Plains.
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Geronimo
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Chiricahua Apache and his small band of raiders left the reservation and avoided capture until 1884. Page 551
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Dawes General allotment Act
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Legislation passed by Congress that split up Indian reservation lands among individual Indians and promised them citizenship.
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Boomtowns
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Western communities that grew quickly because o fthe mining boom.
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Transcontinental
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Railroad that crossed the continental United States; construction began in 1863 and was completed in 1869.
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Pony Express
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A system of messengers that carried mail between relay stations on a route from St. Joseph, Missouri, to San Francisco, California in 1860 and 1861.
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Pacific Railway Act
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1862-1864 Two laws passed by the federal government that gave loans and land grants to railroad companies to encourage them to build a transcontinental railroad.
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Open range
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Pacific land by ranchers who part of the Cattle Kingdom.
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Sodbusters
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Name given to both the Plains farmers and the plows they used to break up the region's tough sod.
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Homestead Act
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Law passed by congress to encourage settlement in the West by giving government-owned land to small farmers.
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Morril Act
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Federal Law passed by Congress that gave land to Western states to encourage them to build colleges.
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Exodusters
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A large group of southern African Americans who settled western land in the late 1800's.
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Patents
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Exclusive rights to manufacturing or sell inventions.
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Free enterprise
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Economic system in which there is competition between businesses with little government control.
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Enterpreneurs
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People who start new businesses.
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