Vocab
Belief that the US should spread its territory from coast to coast.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This was a place where attempts were made by Native Americas to stop Westward Expansion. Crazy Horse would lead this battle using tactics like guerrilla warfare.
What was the Bozeman Trail?
He lead the US army at the Massacre at Sand Creek.
Who was John Chivington?
The belief natives will give up their culture and become part of an American Culture.
What is assimilation?
Attempt to Americanize the natives by giving them a desire to farm.
What is the Dawe's Act?
The names of the homes that were built on the Great Plains.
What are soddies?
Cheyenne massacred by militia and were 200 killed on Nov. 29 1864.
What is the Massacre at Sand Creek?
He was the leader of the Sioux. I am guessing he liked to sit down a lot.
Who was Sitting Bull?
This was considered the lifeline of Native Americans on the Great Plains.
What are buffalo?
This was a religious movement by Native Americans. It was an attempt to stop Westward Expansion.
What was the Ghost Dance Movement?
These people were able to get their land quickly and before anybody else. Is that were Oklahoma State gets their mascot from?
Who are Sooners?
This is known as Custer’s last stand.
What is the Battle of Little Big Horn?
He was killed at the Battle of Little Bighorn. Not to be confused with a delicious dessert.
Who was Custer?
Native Americans would live on these after they were forced off from their homeland. There are still some around today.
What are reservations?
This treaty allowed for the Sioux to live in the Black Hills and for whites to stay off it. This all changed when gold was discovered.
What was the Fort Laramie Treaty?
This greatly industrialized the United States. It even made travel easier, but it greatly affected the Native American way of life.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This event ended when 300 Sioux were massacred by 7th cavalry brought the Indian wars to an end.
What is the Battle of Wounded Knee?
He was a Native American Warrior who successfully fought off the US army at the Bozeman Trail. He really was crazy!
He is considered the leader of a Native American tribe. He signs treaties with the US or he decides go to war with the US.
Who is a chief?
The Dawes Act required Native Americans change this about themselves.
What is clothing, hair, language, and lifestyle?
Droughts, floods, fires, blizzards, plagues, outlaws, native were all viewed as this.
What were challenges on the Plains?
The majority of the Indian Wars happened in this part of the United States.
What are the Great Plains or the Midwest?
He was a medicine man of the Paiute tribe that helped to revitalize the Native American way of life.
Who was Wovoka?
This is the way most Native American tribes celebrate their beliefs. It would later turn into fear by white Christians.
What is dancing?