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11 Cards in this Set
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Transcontinental Railroad |
was completed in 1869. This technological accomplishment successfully linked the East and West coasts |
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Homestead Act of 1862 |
This act opened up the West to homesteaders by giving 160 acres of land to anyone who would live and work on the land for 5 years |
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Forty Niners |
charged west in search of riches and new lives |
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African-Americans migrated |
moved westward in hopes of getting their independence from white landowners, safety for their families, and prosperity |
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Buffalo |
More threatening to the American Indian, however, was the killing |
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Treaties |
the United States government entered into a number of Blank with the Indians |
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Reservations |
Many treaties created Blank |
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Sioux |
This land was sacred to a powerful tribe of the Northern Plains |
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Sitting Pit |
The United States government offered to buy the land, but the Sioux, encouraged by a young leader named |
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Lieutenant Colonel George Custer |
The United States government offered to buy the land, but the Sioux, encouraged by a young leader named |
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Battle of Little Big Horn, |
Custer and his men were surrounded and killed by Sioux warriors. |
