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| What were the 5 things that were in the 1851 Fort Laramie Treaty? |
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| Study the 9 Indian Reservations and their locations. |
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| In 1890 Lakota Sioux ignored the law to stop the Ghost Dance. When these rebellious Native Americans are attacked in December, 200 Lakota and 25 soldiers die at this tragic end to the Indian uprisings. |
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| Colonel George Custer is sent to deal with the Native American's violation of the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty. He over-estimates his opponent and gets everyone killed at this battle. |
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| Chief Black Kettle was attempting to negotiate a peace at Fort Lyon when Colonel Chivington and his men presumably began to fire upon unsuspecting men, women, and children outside the fort. |
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| Red Cloud and Crazy Horse trick 80 soldiers and their leader (the guy the massacre is named for) into an ambush were they are all slaughtered. |
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| Little Crow lead this uprising that ended with hundreds of settlers killed and 38 Dakota Indians sentenced to death. |
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| The _________ Act gave 160 acres of land to each Native American family in an attempt to tie them to the land and make them farmers. |
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| There are 2 big reasons why industrialization took off after the Civil War. One was a large amount of natural resources in the West. What was the other? |
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| This increased 8 times since the end of the Civil War due to the industrial revolution. |
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| Every state in the United States including Puerto Rico has a Land Grant College. What were they set up to promote? |
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| The last lands to be settled on the frontier was this "Sooner" state that had 10,000 people race to stake lands w/in hours of opening up. What was the state? |
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| Along with other advances what 2 things helped farming of wheat in the Dakotas, W. Nebraska, and Kansas? Pick the 2 that helped. |
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| This "Act" set up land to specifically be used for colleges, also known as land-grant colleges. |
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| With little wood to build houses, what did the settlers build as homes? |
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| Stephen Long described the land west of the 100th Meridian and East of the Rockies as? |
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| Besides help from the railroad for settling the West, this "Act" gave settlers 160 acres of land or more for 10 dollars IF they lived on the land for 5 years. |
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