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50 Cards in this Set

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A Medicine Bag
Waxobe
Settlers who lived in sod (earthen) Houses
Sodbuster
A chief
Sachem
Meat mixed with berries and fat
Pemmican
The settler’s belief that they had the right to settle the west
Manifest destiny
What was the western boundary of the USA in 1803?
Mississippi river
Countries that once owned parts of the USA?
France, Spain, Mexico, Britain
A Frontiersman with a city named after him in Nevada?
Kit Carson
Which religious group settled utah
Mormons
What were Names of trails to the west?
Mormon Trail , California Trail, Gila River Trail, Oregon Trail, Sante Fe Trail, Old Spainish Trail
1843 Problems
No rail Roads, no roads, the Missouri has steam boats but no where near the pacific coast, trip by sea to expensive
Animals used to help settlers travel west
Mules, Oxen, Horses
Acts that opened up the west for settlement
1850 Land Donation Act, 1854 Kansas Nebraska Act, 1862 Homestead Act
Prairie Schooner
Conestoga wagon
To survive winter on the plains what was essential
Water, Shelter
What name was given to settlers living in earthen houses?
Sodbusters
Indians believe everything in nature has what
Life Sprite???
Advantages of tipi
Warm in winter cold in summer, light and easy to take down and put up,
What was the worst defeat suffered by the US army
Battle of little big horn
What was the main animal factor in ending the Indian way of life?
Buffalo dying out getting killed for there hides
What were similarities between the Indian tribes style of fighting
Close Quarters Combat, Ambush
What were the tribes that fought each other in last of the Mohicans?
Mohicans, Huron
What was one problem on each of the two rail roads being built?
Central Pacific: Avalanches, tunneling through the Rockies
Union pacific: Indian Attacks
Papoose
Child
Calumet
Peace Pipe
Tipi
Plains Wigwam
Travois
Litter dragged by horse
Paunch Put
Buffalo stomach used for cooking
Wickiup
Brush Hut
Cradle Board
Baby Carrier
Jerky
Persevered buffalo meat
Succotash
Dish of green corn and beans
Reservation
Land for Indian use
Shaman
Medicine man
Parfleche
Raw hide storage case
Moccasin
Shoe
Kinnikinnick
Mix of tobacco and herbs
Hominy
Corn and water
Brave
Warrior
Squaw
White term for Indian woman
Redskin
Red ochre used to paint body
Powwow
Ceremony or Council
Quirt
Whip
Wampum
Shell Necklace
Scalping
Top of head and hair cut with knife
Counting Coup
Even better than killing your enemy is touching him
White Houses
Soddies, log cabins, Adobbies
Brigham Young
Mormon leader
What Trail to the west goes to San Francisco?
California
Why was there such a big jump of people leaving Missouri for the west between 1844-1849
The gold rush