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11 Cards in this Set
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Dawes Act
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Passed by Congress in 1887 to encourage Native Americans to become farmers. Divided up their land & gave it to individual families.
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Homestead Act
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Free land for people to farm. Half a million Americans had set up farms; many people didn’t have the $ to move west & start a farm.
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Massacre at Wounded Knee
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About 300 Native Americans were killed by US troops while trying to surrender, when a shot accidentally rang out.
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Tepee
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tent made by stretching buffalo skins on tall poles
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Reservation
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a limited area set aside for Native Americans
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Transcontinental Railroad
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railroad that stretches across the continent from coast to coast
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Subsidy
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financial aid or land grant from the government. Congress gave subsidies to the railroad companies.
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Cow Towns
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settlement that grew up at the end of a cattle trail.
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Custer's Last Stand/ Battle of Little Big Horn
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Gen. Custer and all his men were killed in an attack against the Souix Indians. 1876
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Ghost Dance
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a Native American dance thought to make a new world free of white men and filled with plenty.
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Sitting Bull
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Lakota war chief and holy man. Leader in the Souix War of 1876. Killed by police officers when they were trying to arrest him for spreading the ghost dance.
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