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100
Native Americans usually had the advantage in battles with the U.S. Army until this was invented.
What is the Colt pistol?
100
This is a term for a person who rejects lawful behavior.
What is a renegade?
100
Why did the slaughter of the buffalo help bring an end to the Native American way of life?
Without buffalo, Native Americans were left without their major source of food, clothing, shelter, and tools. They were forced to live on reservations and adopt the Anglo-American way of life in order to survive.
200
The Red River campaign was a series of battles fought between these two groups.

What is the U.S. Army and several Native American tribes.

200

This is the belief that it is wrong to use violence to settle conflicts.

What is pacifism?
200
How did the government in the late nineteenth century attempt to ensure peace with the Native Americans?
Federal soldiers were stationed in the West by the end of 1866. The federal government signed a peace treaty with several Native American nations called the Treaty of Medicine Lodge Creek. President Grant appointed federal agents, many of whom were Quakers, to deal fairly and kindly with the Native Americans.  The U.S. Army led military campaigns to stop Native American raids.
300
By 1850, Anglo settlers in West Texas feared Native American raids, Native Americans fought to stop westward expansion of Anglo settlers, and most Native Americans had been removed from this part of Texas.
What is East Texas?
300

By November 1874 most Native Americans in Texas were moving here.

What is to a reservation in Indian Territory?
300

Provide four reasons why the Treaty of Medicine Lodge Creek failed.

Neither the U.S. government nor Native Americans followed the terms of the treaty. Defiant bands of Native Americans refused to move to reservations while others left the reservation and raided white settlements. The U.S. government did not prevent soldiers and settlers from entering the reservations, while Congress did not provide funding for the promised supplies to Native Americans on the reservations.

400

This is a person who illegally leaves the armed forces while still required to serve.

What is a deserter?
400

He led a band of vigilantes that tried to protect the rights of Mexicans and Tejanos along the border.

Who is Juan Cortina?
500

While the Native American population in Texas decreased, between 1870 and 1890 the population of white settlers in Texas did this.

What is tripled?
500
This word refers to a buffalo's tendon.
What is a sinew?