THE WEST (and Indian Wars)
A Review for Finals on history covered in the 8th Grade. - Topic - THE WEST and the Indian Wars
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- George Custer
- Killed at Battle of Little Big Horn
- Homestead Act
- gave farmers 160 free acres of land
- Sitting Bull
- Chief of the sioux indians
- Geronimo
- Cheif of the apache indians
- Ishi
- last wild native american living in California, Mono Indian
- Phillip Sheridan
- general in charge of governments war against the indians
- The Jungle
- was a book about the stockyards and their conditions by Upton Sinclair
- fire, swarms, lightning
- prarie farmers scared of due to crops
- 3 ways to gold rush
- overland, ship - around south america, ship - to pananma, walk, ship
- Black Hills of South Dakota
- sacred burial ground of the indians
- Indian Leaders
- Sitting Bull, Red Cloud, Crazy Horse(medicine man)
- Comstock Lode
- Richest Mine ever in NV
- Enemies of cowboys
- rustlers, predators - mountian lions, coyotes
- Vigilantes
- People who take law into their own hands
- Virginia City
- Major Mining town in Nevada
- 2 roundups of cattle in the year
- branding and the long drive
- Chinese
- Not allowed to stake a claim because of prejudice
- Massacres took place
- Sand Creek andWounded Knee
- Michelle Game
- Con-man's game
- Tombstone, Arizona
- famous battle between lawmen and outlaw here
- Doc Holiday
- famous lawman of the old west
- Gold Rush in Black hills of South Dakota
- triggered Indian/Government Wars
- ghost town
- deserted mining town
- Biggest Boomtown in South Dakota
- Deadwood
- Boomtowns
- towns that grow up suddenly because of gold discovery
- Tall-Tale Miners Character
- John Henry
- Battle of Little Big Horn
- June 25 - 26 1876 , Indian Wars
- Chicago
- was were most cattle were taken to be slaughtered
- Jesse James
- Famous outlaw
- sodbusters
- prarie farmers nickname
- Cheif Joseph
- led Nez Pierce Indians
- Bodie
- Largest Ghost Town in California
- Paul Bunyan
- Tall Tale Character for the loggers
- Tribe fought in last Indian Wars
- Modok
- Common gold digging ways
- panning and digging