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62 Cards in this Set
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Urbanize
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Becoming more city like (East Coast)
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Unsettled Land
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West Coast
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Banks and Trains Robbed
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Symbols of the Norths Wealth
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Most Common Professions
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Cowboys, Ranchers, Farmers
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California
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Ranching State
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Kansas City, Dodge City
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Cow Town
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What did Kansas City to Texas do?
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Feed People
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1/3 of Cowboys
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Hispanic and Black, Teenagers. Hard Job.
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Fought only if Native Americans stole cattle
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Cowboys and Indians didnt fight. Didnt carry guns
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U.S. Army fought Against Native Americans
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Native Americans were told to Move off their land.
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Ranchers and Farmers fought a lot
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Barbed wife fences argument over land
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Homestead Act
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Government gave free land
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Olkahoma
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People were able to claim land for themselves
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What happened in the 1890s with Native American cultures?
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they were dying
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What was wrong with the Sioux?
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They were starving
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Who was Wovoka?
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Also called Jack Wilson, a shaman of the northern Paiute in Nevada.
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How did Wovoka learn the beliefs of several Christian sects, including the Presbyterians, Mormons, and Shakers.
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Working for white farmers
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What happened in Wovoka's dream?
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He spoke with God in heaven, where saw many who had died.
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What do most accounts say about Wovoka's dream?
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It told peple not to steal or lie or go to war.
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What did Wovoka promise?
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That messiah, a savior would save them
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What was the ghost dance?
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A expression of deepest grief about the loss of Native Americans' ways of life.
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What did US government actions do?
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Compounded the tensions
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What did the Plains Indians travel?
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the great grasslands on horseback, following the migrations of the buffalo.
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What were most white settlers?
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Farmers or town dwellers.
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What would many settlers believe if Native Americans wouldn't settle down in one place?
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that their lands were available for the taking.
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What happened in the mid-1800s with the U.S. government's Indian policy?
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It underwent a major change.
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What had the army previously done with native Americans?
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They has forcibly moved them from the East and relocated them farther west.
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By the 1850s what did growing settlers want to do?
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move into the western lands as well.
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what did the government do the the Native Americans land?
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they begin seizing it and sending them to reservations.
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Whatt was the goal with the Indians?
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To break the power of the Plains Indians and open their lands for settlement.
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What did Americans think of the new policy about the Indians?
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Americans generally agreed with the new policy.
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What happened with Plains Indians?
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Being confined to the reservations threatened their buffalo-centered way of life.
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What had the vast buffalo done for the Indians?
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It had supported them for countless generations.
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What were Indians Wars?
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Tensions between Plains Indians, settlers, and the U.S. Army that became violent.
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What did settlers often do?
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Break treaties.
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What did many army commanders believe?
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That the Indians must simply be wiped out.
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What did the U.S. army persuade a group of Cheyenne to do?
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To stop raiding farms and return to their Colorado reservation peacefully.
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What did the army troops do?
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Attack, killing about 150 people, and burned the camp.
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What did Congress do during the Sand Creek Massacre?
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condemned the actions but did not punish the commander.
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What did the government do to stop raids on sttelers in Sioux terriotry?
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It ordered all Sioux to leave.
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What happened at Sitting Bull?
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Thousands of Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho gathered near the Little Bighorn River.
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Who was George Amrstrong Custer?
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He was a young cavalry officer, who led a headlong attack against the far larger force.
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What happened with Custer and his men?
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They were slaughtered.
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What happened when Custer and his men were slaughtered?
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It was a great victory for the Siox, but it was their last.
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What was wounded knee Masssacre?
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In December 1890, Amy troops captured some of Sitting Bull's followers and took them to a camp aat Wounded Knee Creak. The next morning soldiers demanded the Indians' rifles, and fighting broke out.
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What did the soldiers have the quickly killed many Sioux warriors?
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Machine guns.
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What did many women and children do during the wounded knee massacre?
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fled
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What happened at the end of the Wounded Knee Massacre?
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300 Sioux men, women, and children lay dead in the snow.
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What did the massacre do to Americans and Native Americans?
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It shocked Americans and broke Native American resistance on the Plains.
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What did the government order in 1877?
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The Nez Perce to move to a smaller reservation in Idaho.
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What did the Nez Perce do on the way to move to the reservation?
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Killed several white settlers.
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What did Nez Perce and Chief Josepy do?
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Fled toward Canada with the army in pursuit.
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What happened in the southwest?
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The government had moved the Apache to a reservation in Arizona.
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What did Apache leader Geromino do?
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He fled the reservation and led raids on the Arizona Mexico border for years.
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What happened to Geromino and his followers?
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They were captured on last time in September 1886 and held as prisoners of war.
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What was one goal in creating Indian reservations?
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The policy of Americanization.
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What did officials want?
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Indians to abandon traditional cultures and identity and to live like white Americans.
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What was the Bureau of Indian Affairs?
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The federal agency that managed Native American reservations, set up government schools for Indian children, often far from their homes.
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What did students have to do>
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Speak English and could not wear traditional clothing.
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What was the Dawes Act?
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Broke up some reservations and divided the land among individuals.
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What did the government sell?
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The best land and gave the rest to the Indians.
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What could many Indians not do when they receives good land?
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Not afford the supplies needed for farming.
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