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| settlers moved west of the mississippi river for gold, silver, and farmland; division of the west |
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| Transcontinental Railroad |
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| helped open up the possibilities of of explorations of other regions |
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| government gave 160 acres of free land to anyone that lived on it for five years |
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| had a highly developed culture, abided by the tribal law, traded and produced beautifully crafted tools and clothing |
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| what native americans called african americans that joined the U.S military |
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| began the reservation system (1851) |
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| Natives lived communally within their tribes (true communism) ;they shared everything |
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| US Army leader, Chivington, massacred the Cheyenne at the Sand Creek Reserve (1864) |
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| medicine men/woman; had a particular sensitivity to spirits |
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| had a highly developed culture, abided by the law, traded and produced beautifully crafted tools and clothing, by mid 1700's almost all Plains Indians had left farms to roam Plains and hunt buffalo because of horses |
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| General George Custer and his men decided to attack the Plains Indians, and General Custer split his army. They attacked, but the Indians fought back and defeated them |
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| a famous apache war chief; Mexicans killed his mother, wife, and 3 children so he fought against them and caused them problems all the time |
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| Wrote A Century of Dishonor |
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| when Native Americans would become like white people in terms of language, clothing, culture, etc. |
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| Phaiute prophet thought the Natives a ghost dance to save them from the white men; came to believe if they wore white shirts, they wouldn't be pierced by bullets |
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| broke up reservations and divided land among Natives |
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| broke up reservations and divided land among Natives |
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| sod house made of grass and soil |
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| African Americans who fled the South for Kansas in 1879 and 1880 |
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| carried guns and shot well; outlaws |
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| a man, on horseback who herds and tends to cattle in the west |
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| American painter and printmaker |
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| US industrialist who manufactured plows |
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| An American painter and printmaker of the Hudson River School in NY whose work |
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