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Sitting Bull
Sitting Bull was the Lakota Indian chief under whom the Sioux tribes united in their struggle for survival on the North American Great Plains -
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vaqueros
The vaqueros of the Americas were the horsemen and cattle herders of Spanish. were English speaking traders and settlers that expanded westward. -
Chinese Immigrants
Brought diversity, settled in the west. Were forced to do labor on railroads for the white males. -
treaty of Ft. laramie
A treaty guaranteeing hunting rights and land for the native americans -
Colorado Gold Rush
happened so quickly there was no time to organize any local town government .The miners were not concerned with this at all, they were prospecting. So they quickly formed mining districts. Their laws and their courts. Mining camps grew. -
Homestead act 1862
Was signed by lincoln in 1862 to try and get native americans to migrate west, and encourage white expansion. Each family household was alloted 160 acres to live on. -
morrill act
this act made it possible for new western states to establish colleges for their citizens. -
sand Creek Massacre
Indian Wars that occurred when a 700-man force of Colorado Territory militia attacked Arapaho Indians in Colorado Territory, killing an estimated 70–163 Indians. -
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Cattle Drives
major economic activity in the west when cattle were herded from Texas to Kansas -
transcontinental railroad
railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 across the western United States to connect the Pacific coast at San Francisco Bay -
Open-Range system
open range is rangeland where cattle roam freely regardless of land ownership. By 1870 barbed wire was invented and replaced this system -
Chief joseph
known for his resistance to the U.S. Government's attempts to force his tribe onto reservations. The Nez Perce were a peaceful nation spread from Idaho to Northern Washington. -
battle of little bighorn
Colonel George Armstrong Custer and his men are wiped out by Sioux forces while attempting to control the Great Plains and confine all Indians to reservations. -
Irish immigration
Irish immigration had greatly increased beginning in the 1820s due to the need for labor in canal building, lumbering, and civil construction works in the Northeast -
Exodusters
African Americans who migrated from states along the Mississippi River to Kansas in the late nineteenth century, -
Century of Dishonor
book by Helen Hunt Jackson first published in 1881 that chronicled the experiences of Native Americans in the United States, focusing on injustices -
Helen Hunt Jackson
became an activist on behalf of improved treatment of Native Americans by the U.S. government -
dawes allotment act
breakup of the reservations and the treatment of Indians as individuals rather than tribes. 160 acres of farmland or 320 acres of grazing land to any Indian who accepted the act's terms, who would then become a US citizen in 25 years. -
Battle of Wounded knee
After an excited Native American fires a rifle shot, US Army troops massacre 300 Indians, including seven children. The massacre is the symbolic final step in the war for the West -
oklahoma land rush
two million acres of land opened up to white settlement was located in Indian Territory. Native Americans were removed from their traditional lands to make way for white settlement.
