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21 Cards in this Set
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Frontier |
an area that is undeveloped
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Comstock Lode |
name given to 1859 gold and silver discovery in Western Nevada |
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Boomtowns |
towns that serviced new mines and emptied when the mines closed |
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Cattle Kingdom |
the name given to the Great Plains during the years when they supported great herds of cattle |
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cattle drive |
movement of cattle herds to market or new grazing lands |
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Chisholm Trail |
a popular route for cattle drives from San Antonio to Abilene, KS |
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Pony express |
mail delivery system in which messengers transported mail on horseback across the country |
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transcontinental railroad |
railroad across united States, connecting east and west |
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Treaty of Ft. Laramie |
first major agreement signed with northern plains nations |
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reservations |
areas of federal land set aside for native americans |
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Crazy horse |
Sioux leader who violently protested reservations |
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Treaty of medicine lodge |
southern plains Indians agreed to lived in reservations |
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George Armstrong Custer |
army commander who lost to Sioux at little bighorn |
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Sitting Bull |
Sioux leader who defeated Custer at Little Bighorn |
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Battle at Little Bighorn |
last great victory for Sioux, where they defeated Custer |
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Massacre at wounded Knee |
battle in which US killed 150 Sioux |
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Long Walk |
a 300-mile forced march of Navajo captives to a reservation |
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geronimo |
apache leader who continued to fight against the US army until 1886 |
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Dawes General Allotment Act |
act that took almost 70% of reservation land |
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homestead act |
an 1862 act that gave government-owned land to farmers |
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Morrill Act |
gave gov owned land to the states |
