History-Chapter 7
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- Buffalo-Bison
- Huge beasts that lived on the Great Plains and gave the Native Americans meat, hides for shelter and clothing, and other uses
- Great Plains
- Vast grasslands between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains
- Cheyenne
- Native American tribe of central plains who raided wagon trains and settlements
- Assimilation
- a policy/process to make one society/culture become part of another society/culture
- Homestead Act
- 1862 law that gave 160 acres of land to people who met certain conditions
- Sitting Bull
- Sioux Chief who resisted the Black Hills being taken by government
- Nomad
- people who travel from place to place following food sources, rather than live in one place.
- Sioux
- Native American tribe of the northern plains (Dakota, Wyoming, and Montana) who resisted white expansion
- Pull Factors
- attracted people to move west. Includes government incentives & private property rights
- Boomer
- Settlers who ran in land races to claim land when the Indian Territory was opened in 1889 for settlement
- Sooner
- people who illegally claimed land by sneaking past government officials in the land races of 1889
- Push Factors
- forced people to move west
- Battle of Little Big Horn
- 2,000 Sioux killed Lt. Colonel Custer and his men in 1876
- Reservation
- Federal land set aside for Native Americans
- Battle of Wounded Knee
- Last major episode of violence in Indian wars (1890) - sioux killed after Ghost Dancing
- Crazy Horse
- Sioux Chief who resisted the government taking the Black Hills.
- Buffalo Bill
- William F. Cody was a cowboy who created and starred in popular Wild West shows
- Custer
- Fought in Civil War and then fought the Indians. Called "Chief of Thieves" by the Sioux.