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20 Cards in this Set
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Dawes Act
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1887 law which divided Indian lands among families and granted US citizenship to those who gave up tribal ties and acted more “American"
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Chief Joseph
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Leader of the Nez Perce tribe who resisted the government’s attempts to relocate his tribe to a reservation
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Granger Movement
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Western farmers who worked together to improve their lives and control railroad prices
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Homestead Act
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1862 act which gave 160 acres to any settler who farmed the land for 5 years
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Indian Treaties
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Agreements between tribes and the U.S. gov’t that were usually ignored when gold was found!
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Little Big Horn
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Site of the 1876 battle between Sioux & Cheyenne warriors and the U.S. army led by General George Custer
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Reservations
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Land where Native Americans were forced to live by the government
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Transcontinental RR
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The first railroad which connected the East Coast with the West Coast
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Manifest Destiny
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1800's belief that Americans had the right to spread across the continent
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Sodbusters
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Term for the farmers living on the Great Plains in the 1800s
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Cattle Drives
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Moving cattle to railroad lines
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Wounded Knee
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300 Native Americans (Sioux/Lakota) were killed by the army here after fleeing the reservations as a result of Sitting Bull's death
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CULTURE
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Entire way of life developed by a people
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Plains Indians
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They were hunters rather than farmers. They used all parts of the Buffalo; tepees, clothes, food, tools
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Steel Plow
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A plow that could cut through prairie soil
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Ghost Dance
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Dance done by the Sioux. It made the Americans so nervous that the army showed up and ended up killing more than 300 Sioux–including Sitting Bull.
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Assimilate
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To become more American - to adopt American culture
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Problems farmers faced
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climate, swarms of grasshoppers, drought, grassfires, snow/rain/wind storms
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Positive effects of Railroads
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-Increased population
-linked east and west -transport materials faster and cheaper |
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Negative effects of Railroads
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-helped destroy Plains Indian culture (the buffalo)
-created Pollution |
