Vocabulary
Allowed farmers and ranchers to enclose their lands. Ended the open range.
Barbed Wire
One of the Native American leaders at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
Sitting Bull / Crazy Horse
Farmers who farmed claims under the Homestead Act.
Homesteaders
U.S. troops killed about 200 Sioux.
Wounded Knee
After the civil war, Americans really wanted to eat this.
Beef
A large vein of silver in Nevada.
Comstock Lode
Led the Nez Perce Indians in their failed attempt to escape the U.S. into Canada.
Chief Joseph
A female sharpshooter who toured with Buffalo Bill.
Annie Oakley
Native American warriors killed more than 200 U.S. troops led by Colonel Custer.
Little Bighorn
Cowboys would move herds from ranches to cowtowns so they could be shipped east by railroad.
Long Drive
Tried to replace Native American concept of shared property with private property by dividing reservations into individual plots.
Dawes Act
An Apache military leader and medicine man.
Geronimo
A gunfighter and outlaw.
Billy the Kid
Over 80 U.S. troops were ambushed and killed.
Fetterman Massacre
What was one danger homesteaders faced?
Locusts, drought, prairie fires, etc.
A common homesteader house made from strips of sod.
Soddie
An army scout, bison hunter, and showman.
Buffalo Bill
A runaway slave who became a deputy U.S. Marshall.
Bass Reeves
U.S. troops killed as many as 500 Native Americans, mostly women and children.
Sand Creek Massacre
Running Wolf is a member of the Cheyenne nation, but he legally changed his name to James, converted to Christianity, and uses only English in his job as a newspaper editor. Is this an example of assimilation?
Yes