Chapter 13 Cultures Clash On The Frontier Flashcards
Homestead
160 free acres per family ; must stay 5 year
William Cody
Buffalo bill
Hired to kill buffalos
Exodusters
Former slave “escaping bondage” - settled in Kansas
Col J.M Chivington
Slaughtered over 100 innocent old men women and children
Sand Creek Massacre
George Armstrong Custer
And the seventh Calvary defeated black kettle in the battle of Washita River
Led one army in battle of little BigHorn
Soddie
Homes built out of sod
Sitting bull and crazy horse
Led the sioux in the battle of Little Bighorn
Helen hunt Jackson
“Century of Dishonor”
Assimilation
To give us their beliefs / cultures and become white
Sod Busters
Farmers
Sooners
People who claimed land early
Black Elk
Survivor
Told the story
Dee Brown
“Bury my Heart at wounded knee”
Great American Desert
Oklahoma
Jack Wilson
Wokoka
The messiah
Vaqueros
Cowboys
Dawes Act
Congress passes
1890
One last attempt was made by the Indians to restore
Little BigHorn
Last victory of the Plain Indians
Paha Sapa
Was sacred to the Sioux Indians
Dakota
Geronimo
Led them to fight back from the reservation
List 5 farming methods that saved the plains farmers
Dry farming Steel plow Windmills Barbed wire Harvester
4 factors that brought the farmers to the Great Plains
Railroads
Free cheap land
Forts
Dawes act
1 broke up the reservations
2 gave each family land
3 children sent 2 school
4 promised citizenship to them
Dawes Act why did it fail
Indians were cheated given worst land
Not granted citizenship
Taught their children us government did not keep its word
While they were doing the Ghost dance
1- mother earths tear would destroy the earth by a flood
2 all the whites would be swallowed up by Mother Earth
3 there would be a second a coming a new Mother Earth dead Indians would resurrected and the old ways would be restored
4 no more death disease or misery
Cow towns
Were built to shop cattle by rail to markers in the east