Ch. 6 Vocabulary

Question 1

Reservation

Answer 1

Specific areas set aside by the government for the Indian’s use
> No freedom to roam the Plains= Indians faced poverty & suppression
> Controversial then & now

Question 2

Sand Creek Massacre

Answer 2

(Fall 1864) incident in which Colorado militia killed a camp of unarmed Indians
> Spawned another round of warfare as Plains Indians joined forces to repel white settlement

Question 3

Battle of Little Bighorn

Answer 3

(June 1876) battle in which the Sioux defeated US army troops (Cluster & all his men)
> Led US government to step up efforts

Question 4

Wounded knee

Answer 4

(1890) US army killed more than 100 men, women, children- ended Ghost Dance War
> Last major conflict in Indian conflict

Question 5

Assimilate

Answer 5

To be absorbed into the main culture of a society

> The idea behind reservations- Indians becoming ‘Americans’

Question 6

Dawes Act

Answer 6

(1887) law which divided reservation land into private property> 160 acre of land- Indians were forced on & to do what the government wanted

Question 7

Vigilante

Answer 7

self-appointed law enforcers who punished law-breakers

> Not always justice

Question 8

Land grant

Answer 8

Wide stretches of land on both sides of track routes given by Congress to railroad
> Sped up transcontinental railroad

Question 9

Open-range system

Answer 9

The system for raising livestock in the west prior to the arrival of eastern settlers
> Property not fenced in= free-range

Question 10

Homestead Act

Answer 10

(1862) law that gave 160 acres of land to citizens willing to live & cultivate it for 5 years
> Encouraged movement

Question 11

Exoduster

Answer 11

African American farmers led by, Benjamin Singleton, moved to Kansas & Oklahoma, planted crops & established towns
> ‘Promised Land’