Vocabulary
originating or occurring naturally in a particular place/native
What is indigenous
The grassland extending through the west-central portion of the United States.
What is the Great Plains
This piece of legislation offered 160 acres of land free to any citizen or intended citizen who was head of the household if they would make improvements to the land
What is the Homestead Act
US soldiers massacred 300 unarmed Native Americans
What is the Battle of Wounded Knee?
The place where the Civil War began
What is Ft. Sumter
Native American Tribes
What are Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapaho
Why many immigrants traveled West
What is gold and silver or the Gold Rush
Legislation aimed to "Americanize" the Native Americans. The act broke up the reservations and gave some of the reservation land to individual Americans.
What is the Dawes Act?
US Army commander wanted the Indians to suffer more so they were attacked when they thought they were protected by the US government
What is Massacre at Sand Creek
The first African American to serve in the US Congress
Who is Hiram Revels
Sioux chief that led the attack on Custer at Little Bighorn
Who is Sitting Bull
This document was an agreement between the Sioux & the Europeans in which the Sioux agreed to live on a reservation along the Missouri River.
What is the Treaty of Ft Laramie
The Kiowa and Comanche Indians continued the fight and the US responded by putting the friendly tribes onto reservations and destroying all who were left out on the plains
What is the Red River War
Declared that all slaves in Confederate states would be freed
What is the Emancipation Proclamation
This Lt. Colonel was killed at Battle of Little Bighorn
Who is George Armstrong Custer
A plan in which Native Americans would give up their beliefs and way of life and become part of white culture.
What is assimilation
The battle over the Sioux hunting grounds along the Bozeman Trail
What is the Battle of the 100 Slain or the Fetterman massacre
The amendment that gave blacks the right to vote
What is the 15th Amendment
The killing of people who cannot defend themselves
What is massacre
Two very different cultures of white settlers and Native Americans
What is the Clash on the Prairie
The Battle of Little Bighorn is also called....
What is Custer's Last Stand
The 1864 plan for Reconstruction that denied the right to vote or hold office to anyone who fought for the Confederacy
Wade Davis Bill