Exodusters
What were the African Americans that fled the south called?
Exodusters
What animal was sacred to the Native Americans?
Buffalo
What was the name of the pieces of land that Native Americans were pushed on to?
Reservations
What connected the East to the West?
Transcontinental Railroad
What invention ended the era of the open range?
Barbed Wire
Why did the Exodusters leave the south?
To escape discrimination, the KKK
Ritual to bring back the buffalo, their land, rid the world of white people
Ghost Dance
What animal did settlers bring that destroyed the buffalo population?
Cattle
Give an example of a push factor
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Give an example of pull factor
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Slaves
Last Major victory for Native Americans against U.S. forces
Battle of Little Bighorn
What act was made to assimiliate Native Americans into American society?
Dawes Act
Gave settlers 160 acres of land
Homestead Act
What did the Homestead Act cause?
What state did most of the Exodusters move to?
Kansas
To make like the mainstream of society
Assimilation
How many Native Americans were killed at Sand Creek?
270
Belief that United States should spread of the East Coast to the West Coast
Who gave settlers the right to conquer the West?
God
What war happened prior to the Exodusters leaving the South?
Civil War
What was the name of the massacre that happened when U.S. soldiers killed 270 Cheyenne Indians?
Sand Creek
Final battle between Native Americans and the US
Wounded Knee
1869
What amendment give States rights to make decisions?
10th Amendment