Expansion
This belief said America was destined to expand across North America.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Kiowa leader also known as White Bear.
Who is Satanta?
The year the Salt Creek Massacre occurred.
What is 1871?
Settlers described the event using this word.
What is massacre?
Satanta and Big Tree were put on trial in this state.
What is Texas?
This treaty attempted to place Plains tribes on reservations in 1867.
What is the Medicine Lodge Treaty?
U.S. general who ordered the arrests after the attack.
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?
Number of wagons attacked.
What is 12?
The U.S. Army viewed the event as this.
What is a crime?
The first Native leaders tried in a _____ court.
What is a state court?
These transportation projects threatened Kiowa lands and independence.
What are railroads?
Kiowa chief tried alongside Satanta.
Who is Big Tree?
Number of teamsters killed.
What is 7?
Many Kiowa leaders viewed the attack as this.
What is resistance?
Initially, Satanta and Big Tree received this punishment.
What is the death penalty?
Two forts established by the U.S. government in the Southern Plains.
What are Fort Richardson and Fort Sill?
The Native leader who openly admitted leading the raid.
Who is Satanta?
Survivor who escaped and raised the alarm.
Who is Thomas Brazeal?
Historians often describe the event as this broader type of conflict.
What is frontier violence?
Their death sentences were later changed to this.
What is commuted/reduced?
According to our thesis, American expansion was a struggle over these three things.
What are land, movement, and power?
Which historical figure pushed the government toward a stronger military response?
Who is Sherman?
Approximately how many Kiowa and Comanche warriors participated?
What is about 180?
Why do historians disagree about the event?
Different groups experienced and interpreted it differently.
This war from 1874–1875 crushed Plains resistance.
What is the Red River War?