Indian Leaders and Conflicts
This Nez Perce chief tried to flee to Canada when forced to leave the Wallowa Valley.
Who is Chief Joseph?
This act, passed in 1862, gave settlers 160 acres of land if they paid a small fee and lived on it for 5 years.
What is the Homestead Act?
The Plains Indians were angry about the transcontinental railroad because it ran across lands where they hunted this animal.
What are Buffalos?
Sudden, violent rushes of animals in a group, often caused by fear or panic
What is Stampede?
This U.S general met Geronimo for a peace conference in Skeleton Canyon in Arizona in September of 1886.
Who is General Nelson A. Miles?
This Apache medicine man led revolts against the U.S. government in 1876 and again in 1883.
Who is Geronimo?
This amendment gave Black people the right to vote after the Civil War.
What is the 15th Amendment?
These northerners came south after the Civil War and bought up plantations and property.
What are carpetbaggers?
To attack, rob, and destroy a place during warfare or conflict.
What is Pillage?
This Belgian Jesuit priest came to the United States in 1821 to do missionary work among Indians.
Who is Father Pierre-Jean De Smet?
This Sioux chieftain defeated Custer at the Little Bighorn River in Montana.
Who is Crazy Horse?
President Ulysses S. Grant wanted Indian reservations to be directed by these people, not government agents.
What are Christian ministers?
This railroad ran from Omaha, Nebraska westward and was part of the first transcontinental railroad.
What was the Union Pacific?
Severely damaged or mutilated; treated with violence or disrespect.
What is Mutilated?
This president wanted to form tribal reservations where Indians could go to school and become farmers.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This Apache chief led a bloody war after being accused of kidnapping a white child and surrendered in 1872.
Who is Cochise?
This amendment said that Black people have the same rights as white people.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This was the name of the railroad that ran from Sacramento, California eastward.
What was the Central Pacific?
Pouring out smoke or steam heavily; a verb describing what train engines do.
What is Belching?
This cavalry commander was famous as an Indian fighter and was killed at the Little Bighorn.
Who is General George Custer?
This Sioux chieftain had a vision about soldiers falling upside down from the sky like grasshoppers into his/her camp, which was interpreted as a prophecy that they would defeat the U.S. Army.
Who is Sitting Bull?
Congress gave railroad companies thousands of these to sell to settlers along the railroads.
What are Acres?
The first transcontinental railroad met at this location on May 10, 1869.
What is Promontory Point?
A continuous stretching across a continent; this type of railroad connected the East and West coasts.
What is Transcontinental?
After Cochise has escaped through the side of his tent, This U.S. Army lieutenant had Cochise's wife, son and nephews killed.
Who is Lieutenant George Bascom?