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42 Cards in this Set
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Frederick Turner |
His vision overlooked racial diversity and failed to acknowledge woman in society |
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Indian Removal |
army removed eastern tribes against will to Mississippi |
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Andrew Jackson - trail of tears date |
1830's |
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Reservations |
Govt. took control of indian land and promised to repay |
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Treaty of Fort Larami |
*1851
10,000 Indians came together with hopes of preserving Indian culture
*smallpox biggest killer of native americans in west |
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Sand Creek Massacre |
* Nov 1854
*butchering of 270 Indians despite order not to kill |
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Why did Bisons become nearly extinct? |
*drought, fires, blizzards
*whites killed food supply of Indians |
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Sitting Bull |
He is a great sioux leader |
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Treaty of Medicine Lodge |
*Indians agree to move to reservation
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Comancheria |
*Great Indian Empire
*trade in guns, horse, captives
*ended in Battle of Palo Duro (1874) |
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2nd Treaty of Fort Laramie |
* 1868
* US agreed to abandon Bozeman trail and gaurenteed control over Black Hills to indians |
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Crazy Horse |
Sioux Chief --- refused to sign 2nd treaty of Fort Laramie |
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Black Hills |
gold discovered here in 1874 |
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George Custer |
Lieutenant colonel - troops found gold in the areaG |
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General George Crook |
*1876
*led 265 men to largest indian territory |
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Battle of the Little Big Horn |
*1876
*last stand for Sioux |
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Virginia Hampton Institute |
*1868 founded
*forced assimilation of indians into western culture and education |
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Carlisle Indian School |
* 1879
* training to make indians "willing workers"
*agriculture and manual arts |
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Dawes Allotment Act |
*1887
*Divide reservation a lot and sold surplus to white soldiers --- lowered land value even more
*Act made indians more poor and destitute
*amended in 1891 and 1906
*1934 the land was restored |
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Fort Still |
Raiding parties used this place as asylum where they could not be reached |
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Nez Perce |
*1877 war
*US army issued either come to reservation or be hunted down and killed --- they fled across to Canada
*Chief Joseph was leader of this |
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Geronimo |
medicine man that led raiding parties to obtain horses and amnuition |
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Lozen |
woman who rode with the warriors in raiding parties to obtain amnuition |
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Nelson Miles |
*replacement of Crook
*adopt policy of hunt and destroy |
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Ghost Dance |
1889
dancers went into hypnotic trances
whites killed in apocolypse |
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Wounded Knee |
massacre where indians killed by whites bc of ghost dance |
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Comstock Lode |
*1852 -In Nevada, hot place for metals and gold
* Irish and Chinese used as laborers
*dangerous conditions bc of carbon dioxide
*brought in diversity -- many coming for gold |
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Buffalo Soldiers |
*black soldiers who stayed in west - hair resembled that of bison
*lowest rate in the army and treated poorly |
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Diversity in West |
*chinese finish railroad in 1862
*easy scapegoat during depressionC |
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Chinese Exclusion Act |
1882
*bar chinese immigration |
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salt lake city - mormons |
1870
cause womans right to vote |
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Homestead Act of 1862 |
160 acres free to any citizen who settle for 5 years |
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transcontinental railroads |
opened up new areas = recruit settlers |
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Land Fever |
*1862
*farmers difficult by catastrophic weather conditions G |
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Great American Desert |
1870's
as land grew scarce -- began to push further west
drought followed plow starving farmers |
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Miller & Lux |
Industrial creature - use labor force of migrant workers
farmers left field to get jobs at factories |
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Gilded Age |
Business tycoons = get rich quick |
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Railroads |
Americas first business - got land grants from federal govt |
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Jay Gould |
pioneered railway system |
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Samuel F Morse |
telegraph developed wire $ around world |
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Carnegie |
biggest steel business during gilded age |
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Rockefeller |
oil for machinery
countrys 1st billionaire
Tarbell brought accusations
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