s.s indian wars
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- Morrill Act
- granted more than 17 million acres of federal land to the states
- Dawes General Allotment Act
- 1887 - it tried to lessen traditional influences on Indian society by making land ownership private.
- Comstock Lode
- In 1859 Miner Henry Comstock discovered a huge open deposit of gold and silver in Nevada
- Transcontinental Railroad
- a rail road that would cross the continent and connect the East to the West
- Pony Express
- 1860, a system messengers on horse back carried messages to the west
- Deflation
- a decrease in the money supply and overall lower prices
- Massacre at wounded knee
- the U.S. army shot and killed 150 Sioux near Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota. It was the last major incident on the Great Plains. !890, The7th Calvary
- The Battle of the little Bighorn
- Sioux forces led by Crazy horse and sitting bull surrounded and defeated Cluster and his troops. Montana territory, June 25, 1876
- Sand Creek Massacre
- In Colorado territory in 1864, U.S army colonel John M. Chivington led a surprise attack on a peaceful Cheyenne settlement along Sand Creek River. The Cheyenne under Chief Black kettle tried to surrender. First he waved the America Flag and the White flag of surrender. Chivington ignored the gestures. The U.S army killed about 200 Cheyenne during the conflict
- Cattle Kingdom
- the Great Plains from Texas to Canada where many ranchers raised cattle in the late 1800's
- Dry farming
- a new method of farming that shifted the focus away from water dependent crops such as corn.
- Treaty at Medicine Lodge
- In 1867 most southern plains Indians Agreed to live on reservations
- Ghost Dance
- A Qatiute Indian named Wovaka became a religious movement that predicted the arrival of Paradise for Native Americans
- Reservations
- Areas of federal land set aside for Native Americans
- Chisholm Trail
- Ran from San Antonio, Texas, to the cattle town of Abilene, Kansas was One of the most earliest and most popular routs for cattle drives
- Buffalo soldiers
- Troop Including African American Cavalry who the Indians called...
- Cattle drive
- On long Journeys, coyboys herded cattle to the Market or to the northern plains for grazing
- Exodusters
- southerners made a mass exodus, or departure from the south
- Populist Party
- a new party that called for the government to own railroads and telephone and telegraph systems.
- Frontier
- an undeveloped area
- Sodbusters
- a nickname for farmers who had the hard work of breaking up sod
- Treaty at Fort Laramie
- The first Major treaty between the U.S government and the Plains Indians . The Treaty stated that if the Indians would not hurt the settlers the government would pay for the damages the settlers made. Was Broken by the U.S. government
- Long Walk
- On this 300 mile march, the Navajo were forced to walk across the deset to a reservation in Bosque Redondo, New Mexico.
- Homestead Act
- Gave Government owned land to small farmers
- Boomtowns
- communities that grew suddenly when a mine opened
- National Grange
- social and educational organization for farmers