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32 Cards in this Set
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the government agency responsible for managing American Indian issues
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bureau of Indian affairs
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a U.S. colonel at the Sand Creek Massacre
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John M. Chivington
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a massacre that happened to black kettles tribe they had all warriors out hunting and the women left at camp . the tribe lift a white flag in surrender and still got shot. 200 were killed
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Sand Creek Massacre
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an important Sioux resistance leader he lead his people to gathered and were attack by George Custard and his men. was often drawn as a buffalo on a horse.
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Sitting Bull
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infamous for the loss at little big horn
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George Armstrong Custard
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the battle at which a Sioux nation is attacked by a small carvery by the infamous George Custard
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Battle of Little Bighorn
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made a religious movement called the ghost dance was rumored to bring back the dead and buffalo
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Wovoka
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the carvery took the Indians weapons away and they started to fire at each other due to the hotchkiss the Indians loss 150 people including children and women
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Massacre at Wounded Knee
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had 800 followers and were heading to Canada they didn't make it cause it was to cold
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Chief Joseph
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had followers and were a sort of resistance to reservations they surrendered twice and the last one made them prisoners of war
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Geranimo
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demanded fair treatment for American Indians
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Sarah Winnemucca
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required Indian lands to be surveyed and Indian families received allotments of 160 acres
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Dawes General Allotment Act
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any citizen or intended citizen select any serveyed land up to 160 acres and to gain the title to it after five years
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homestead act
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gave lands to railroad companies to develop a railroad line linking east and west coast
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pacific railway act
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granted a total of more than17 million acres of federal lond to the states
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morrill act
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African Americans that left to the west to escape discrimination in the south
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exodusters
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an exoduster leader that was a former slave he was 70 at the time
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benjamin singleton
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helped farmers adapt to their new environment they sought virieties of wheat that was suitable for the great plains
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U.S. department of agriculture
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building made of topsiol stacked like bricks
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sod houses
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farm with efficient machinery and was cheap most were owned by lage factories
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bonanza farm
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a writer that recorded their life on the plains she traveled west and settled in nebraska as a child
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Willa Cather
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cattle that was able to travel long distances on little water and could live year round on grass
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Texas longhorn
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over land treks that covered hundreds of miles and lasted several months
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long drives
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a town located at a railroad where brokers bought cattle to send east on the rail cars
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railhead
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free grazing land
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open range
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a Illinois farmer that patented barb wire
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Joseph Glidden
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a cheap fencing metal
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barb wire
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one of the worlds richest silver vein
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Comstock lode
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a process that used mercury to extract silver from ore
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patio process
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negotiated the purchase of alaska
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William H.Seward
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a process of mining that water shot at high pressures ripped gravel away to reveal precious metals below, caused floods
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hydraulic mining
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a process of mining that sank deep shafts to get ore in veins of rock
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hard rock mining
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