Native Americans
US Government Policies
Westward Expansion General Info
Bonus (Farmers)
Vocabulary
100

Federal land set aside for Native Americans

Reservations

100

US policy implemented to reform Pains Indians through land separation

Dawes Act

100

The southern state and bordering country to the north between which the Great Plains stretch

Texas to Canada

100

An agreement signed to encourage cooperation between two different groups

Treaty

200

Name three of the 5 Native American groups mentioned in the text

Apache, Comanche, Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Pawnee

200

An Act with which the government gave land to small farmers

Homestead Act

200

Demographic of people who helped build communities among widely spaced farms and towns

Women

200

The Native American leader who led battle against Custer

Sitting Bull

300

The animal used a lot in the Plains Native American culture

Buffalo

300

Treaty that created a Sioux reservation

Treaty of Fort Laramie

300

Black Calvary soldiers sent to the west to remove Native Americans from their land

Buffalo Soldiers

300

An event where thousands of settler rushed to claim land in Oklahoma. Single women and widows could claim land on an equal basis with men.

What is the Oklahoma Land Rush

300

A creative form of hopeful resistance against US Government Oppression

The Ghost Dance

400

One issue faced by Native Americans living on Reservations

  • Bad farm land

  • Bad for buffalo hunting

400

US military retaliation, killing 100+ innocent Sioux people

Massacre at Wounded Knee 

400

African Americans who migrated from the South to the West to avoid violence after Reconstruction failed

Exodusters

400

The thing that doubled in size over the 40 years between 1860 and 1900, resulting in the need to grow more food for America.

What is population

400
  • Idea that the United States was destined to expand from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific ocean and spread across the continent. 

Manifest Destiny

500

The buffalo hide tent in which many Plains Native Americans lived

Tipi

500

Event where Navajo were forced to walk 300+ miles to new reservation

Long Walk

500

The part that advocated for government to own railroads and telephone and telegraph systems

Populist Party