This was supposed to "Americanize" Native Americans by encourging in them the desire to own property and to farm reservation land distributed to Native American families.
What is the Dawes Act
100
This leader of the Hunkpapa Sioux never signed the treaty of 1868. He helped to defeat the U.S. Army at the Little Bighorn, toured in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show for a while, encourged the Ghost Dance movement and was eventually killed during an attempt by reservation police to arrest him.
Who is Sitting Bull.
100
This event brought the Indian wars and an entire era to an end.
What is The Battle Of Wounded Knee
100
The Great Plains- Why
This area of land showed just how far the settlers were willing to go in order to get what they wanted. It also became the bread basket of the world.
100
This was forced upon the Sioux Indian nation after the Fetterman Massacre on the Bozeman trail.
What is the Treaty of Fort Laramie.
200
A minority group's adoption of the beliefs and ways of life of the dominant culture.
What is Assmilation
200
This Colonel's bad judgement in attacking native American warriors at the Little Bighorn River resulted in his death and that of all his troops.
Who is George A. Custer
200
This morning attack on the Cheyenne and Arapaho resulted in the death of over 150 Native Americans mostly women and children.
What is the Massacre at Sand Creek
200
Chisholm Trail - What
The Chisholm Trail was a trail used in the post-Civil War era to drive cattle overland, from ranches in Texas to Kansas railheads.
200
This city in Kansas agreed to create a shipping line where Railroads and cattle trails came together in one place. (The Cow Town)
What is Abilene
300
This is the grassland extending through the west-central portion of the United States
What are the Great Plains
300
He lost 80 soldiers to an Native American attack led by Crazy Horse along the Bozeman trail.
Who is William J. Fetterman
300
Also known as Custer's last stand this battle resulted in the death of all the men of the United States 7th Calvary.
What is The Battle of Little Bighorn
300
Assimilation - Who
Immigrants in the US
300
He led the the massacre at Sand Creek.
Who is John Chivington.
400
This was the major cattle route from San Antonio, Texas, through Oklahoma to Kansas.
What is the Chisholm Trail
400
He made an unsucessful appeal to the US government to end white settlement on the Bozeman trail.
Who is Red Cloud
400
Six years of raiding by Kiowa and Comanche natives results in the out break of this war.
What is the Red River War
400
The Treaty of Fort Laramie - Who
the Sioux Indians, and the US government
400
A bored of sturdy cattle suited to the conditions of the dry southwest.
What are longhorns.
500
The moving of cattle over trails to a shipping center.
What is a long drive.
500
Native American people who's hunting ground engulfed the Bozeman Trail.
Who are the Sioux
500
During this conflict the U.S. herded the people of friendly tribe onto reservations while opening fire on all others.
What is the red river war.
500
The Great Plains -Who
Various Native American Nations, Homesteaders/Exodusters, Miners, US Calvary, and Immigrants.
500
Difference of settlers and Native Americans belief system in how the Great Plains should be used
Settlers believed it should be owned and profited from.
Native Americans believed it should not be owned and that it was sacred.