Chapter 13 Cultures Clash On The Frontier Flashcards

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Homestead

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160 free acres per family ; must stay 5 year

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William Cody

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Buffalo bill

Hired to kill buffalos

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3
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Exodusters

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Former slave “escaping bondage” - settled in Kansas

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4
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Col J.M Chivington

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Slaughtered over 100 innocent old men women and children

Sand Creek Massacre

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5
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George Armstrong Custer

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And the seventh Calvary defeated black kettle in the battle of Washita River

Led one army in battle of little BigHorn

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6
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Soddie

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Homes built out of sod

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7
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Sitting bull and crazy horse

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Led the sioux in the battle of Little Bighorn

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8
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Helen hunt Jackson

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“Century of Dishonor”

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9
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Assimilation

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To give us their beliefs / cultures and become white

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10
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Sod Busters

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Farmers

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11
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Sooners

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People who claimed land early

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12
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Black Elk

Survivor

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Told the story

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13
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Dee Brown

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“Bury my Heart at wounded knee”

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14
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Great American Desert

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Oklahoma

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15
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Jack Wilson

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Wokoka

The messiah

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16
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Vaqueros

17
Q

Dawes Act

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Congress passes

18
Q

1890

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One last attempt was made by the Indians to restore

19
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Little BigHorn

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Last victory of the Plain Indians

20
Q

Paha Sapa

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Was sacred to the Sioux Indians

Dakota

21
Q

Geronimo

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Led them to fight back from the reservation

22
Q

List 5 farming methods that saved the plains farmers

A
Dry farming
Steel plow 
Windmills
Barbed wire
Harvester
23
Q

4 factors that brought the farmers to the Great Plains

A

Railroads
Free cheap land
Forts

24
Q

Dawes act

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1 broke up the reservations
2 gave each family land
3 children sent 2 school
4 promised citizenship to them

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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
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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
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Cow towns
Were built to shop cattle by rail to markers in the east