Native Americans
This Act tried to make Natives more "American" by taking, surveying, and dividing up Native American land into lots for farming.
What is Dawes Act?
Name one reason why some people in the U.S. migrated West.
What is Gold Rush, L.A. Purchase, Acts of Congress?
Plains Indian Lifestyle
What is Nomadic?
Covered thinly with gold leaf or gold paint.
The process of blending in to the established culture.
What is Assimilation?
Populists party is the party of...
Who are the people?
This Act of Congress encouraged settlement in the West by giving land away to those who were willing to farm it.
What is Homestead Act?
Buffalo Hunter that had a large role in decimating the Buffalo population
Who is Buffalo Bill
Many native Americans depended on this animal that nearly became extinct.
What are Bison/Buffalo?
BESIDES helping to move people, what is one other reason we've discussed about why the railroad was important.
What is Transport food across long distances; It was faster; It was cheaper?
Spiritual Movement by Plains Indians intended to banish evil from their land and bring back the Buffalo
What is Ghost Dance Movement?
A hands off policy or attitude of letting things take their own course, without interfering.
This is considered the last battle of the Indian Wars.
What is The Massacre at Wounded Knee?
What are The Grange & The Farmers Alliance?
The belief shared by many Americans in the mid-1800s that the U.S. should expand across the continent to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
5 "civilized tribes"
What are Choctaw, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Creek, Seminole?
Why was this time period referred to as the Gilded Age?
This time of fortune and innovation concealed problems of poverty and corruption that were hidden just under the surface.
Describe how the government tried to Assimilate native Americans into the established culture.
What are Boarding schools, Dawes Act (farming)?
Allowed the reorganization of Reservations in the 1930's
What is the US Indian Reorganization Act?
In the 1800s, what part of the U.S. was generally referred to as the "West" and why?
What is West of the Mississippi River?
This tribe was known for mastering the use of horses and known as the most fierce and formidable Tribe in the Plains.
Who are Comanche?