Native Americans
Federal land set aside for Native Americans
Reservations
US policy implemented to reform Pains Indians through land separation
Dawes Act
The southern state and bordering country to the north between which the Great Plains stretch
Texas to Canada
An agreement signed to encourage cooperation between two different groups
Treaty
Name three of the 5 Native American groups mentioned in the text
Apache, Comanche, Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Pawnee
An Act with which the government gave land to small farmers
Homestead Act
Demographic of people who helped build communities among widely spaced farms and towns
Women
The Native American leader who led battle against Custer
Sitting Bull
The animal used a lot in the Plains Native American culture
Buffalo
Treaty that created a Sioux reservation
Treaty of Fort Laramie
Black Calvary soldiers sent to the west to remove Native Americans from their land
Buffalo Soldiers
An event where thousands of settler rushed to claim land in Oklahoma. Single women and widows could claim land on an equal basis with men.
What is the Oklahoma Land Rush
A creative form of hopeful resistance against US Government Oppression
The Ghost Dance
One issue faced by Native Americans living on Reservations
Bad farm land
Bad for buffalo hunting
US military retaliation, killing 100+ innocent Sioux people
Massacre at Wounded Knee
African Americans who migrated from the South to the West to avoid violence after Reconstruction failed
Exodusters
The thing that doubled in size over the 40 years between 1860 and 1900, resulting in the need to grow more food for America.
What is population
Idea that the United States was destined to expand from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific ocean and spread across the continent.
Manifest Destiny
The buffalo hide tent in which many Plains Native Americans lived
Tipi
Event where Navajo were forced to walk 300+ miles to new reservation
Long Walk
The part that advocated for government to own railroads and telephone and telegraph systems
Populist Party