Acts
What act allowed any American, including freed slaves, to put in a claim free acres of land?
The Homestead Act?
A legal designation for an area of land
Reservation
Lakota Sioux was led by who?
Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse
Who sat in the white only railroad car?
Homer Plessy
What was the Ghost Dance?
A spiritual movement that arose among Western American Indians.
What act turned Native Americans into farmers and landowners?
Dawes Act
Government policies
Forced Native Americans to live on Reservations.
Sitting Bull was arrested for failing to stop his people from practicing what?
The Ghost Dance
Claimed law violated what amendment.
The 14th amendment “equal protection”
Linda Brown, African American student was.
Denied admission to an all white school based on race
This act accelerated settlement of U.S. western
Homestead Act
What is Americanization
The action of making a person or thing American in character or nationality.
The U.S. government believed the dance was
A violent rebellion towards the U.S.
Homer Plessy was arrested for violating?
Separate but equal
The settlement of Europeans pushed Native Americans
westward
What act provided cooperating families with 160 acres of reservation land for farming or 320 acres for grazing?
Dawes Act
As Native Americans were moved to reservations, Americans provided the Native Americans with?
Schooling to assimilate to American culture.
Marked the most decisive Native American victory and the worst U.S. Army defeat in the long Plains Indian War.
The Battle of the Little Bighorn
Claimed it denied what?
Equal protection, denying someone quality, free appropriate education
Europeans pushed Native Americans westward and exposed them to diseases like what?
Smallpox.
What year was the Homestead Act?
1862
Natives were also given
Seed to farm and were instructed to farm on the reservations.
This was also called Custer's Last Stand
The Battle of the Little Bighorn
Overturned what case?
Plessy vs. Ferguson
The Native Americans will go through struggles being pushed from their lands and go through a series of?
Treaties and government actions.