Native American Land
The term for land given to Native Americans in order to open up more land for American settlement.
What is reservation?
This phrase became the goal of the Indian School system.
What is "Kill the Indian, Save the Man"?
This term was given to Black military troops by the Plains Native Americans.
What is Buffalo Soldiers?
This term was given to Hispanic Californians who often became migrant workers in the late 1800s.
What is californios?
This group was persecuted in Utah for their practice of polygamy.
Who are the Mormons?
These animals were killed intentionally in large numbers in order to impact the livelihood of Plains Natives.
What are bison (buffalo)?
This law attempted to destroy Native American culture by allotting land to Native Americans for private ownership.
What is the Dawes Act?
This Native American leader was killed when he tried to join a religious ritual at Standing Rock Reservation.
Who is Sitting Bull?
Former slaves who moved from the Mississippi Delta to Kansas to start new lives farming were known as this.
Who are exodusters?
This law banned all immigration from China in 1882.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This was the name of a Native American empire that stretched from Canada to Mexico in the 1700s.
What is Comancheria?
The Massacre at Wounded Knee was the indirect result of the United States banning this emerging Native American religious ritual.
What is the Ghost Dance?
This conflict was one of the last major wars between Natives and the United States in the late 1860s, and was named after the Native American leader. (Hint: it was also the name of the school in the documentary we watched)
What is Red Cloud's War?
The US Government in the 1850s-70s gave away huge land grants to private companies to encourage the construction of these.
What are railroads?
Miners realized they had strength in numbers, leading them to form these in order to demand better wages and working conditions.
What are unions?
The US Government violated the Fort Laramie treaty in 1868 for this reason.
What is the discovery of gold in the Black Hills?
This American General was famously killed at the Battle of Little Bighorn which became known as his "last stand".
Who is George Custer?
This was the name given to the silver vein discovered in Nevada in 1859 that resulted in loss of most of the land of the Paiute and Shoshone tribes.
What is the Comstock Lode?
This law provided 160 acres to farmers who agreed to live on and work the land for five years.
What is the Homestead Act?
This was the primary platform of the Workingmen's Party of the 1870s.
What is anti-immigration?
This Native American warrior, who defeated General Crook of the Battle of Rosebud, has a large monument on a mountain under construction in SD.
Who is Crazy Horse?
He was an Apache shaman who led his warriors in guerilla warfare against settlements in the Southwest, later becoming an unwilling celebrity.
Who is Geronimo?
John Chivington ordered the slaughter of hundreds of Native Americans at what became known as this massacre.
What is Sand Creek?
This railroad magnate completed the first transcontinental railroad with the help of thousands of Chinese workers.
Who is Charles Crocker?
This city in Nevada was the result of a silver rush and became one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the US in the later half of the 19th century.
What is Virginia City?