Vocab. Module 11 Lesson 3& 4 Flashcards
First major agreement signed with northern Plains nations
Treaty of Fort Laramie
Areas of federal land set aside for Native Americans
Reservations
Sioux leader who violently protested reservations.
Crazy Horse
Southern Plains Indians agreed to live on reservations
Treaty of Medicine Lodge
Nickname given by Indians to African American cavarly
Buffalo Soldiers
Sioux leader who defeated Custer at Little Bighorn
Sitting Bull
Army commander who lost to the Souix at Little Bighorn
George Armstong Custer
Last great vicory for Sioux, where they defeated Custer
Battle of the Little Bighorn
Battle in which U.S. troops killed about 150 Sioux
Massacre at Wounded Knee
A 300-mile forced march of Navajo captives to a reservation
Long Walk
Nez Perce chief who fled to Canada before being forced to a reservation
Chief Joseph
Apache leader who continued to fight against the U.S. Army until 1886
Geronimo
Religious movement predicting a paradise for Native Americans
Ghost Dance
Paiute against the government’s treatment of Native Americans
Sarah Winnemucca
Give up traditional ways and adopt the ways of a different group of people
Assimilate
Act that took almost 70 percent of reservation land
Dawes General Allotment Act
An 1862 act that gave government-owned land to farmers
Homestead Act
An 1862 act that gave government-owned land to the states, with the understanding that the states would sell the land to finance colleges
Morrill Act
African American who left the South for Kansas in 1879
Exoduster
Nickname given to Great Plains farmers because breaking the soil was such hard work
Sodbusters
Farming using hardy crops that need less water than others
Dry Farming
A Great Plains pioneer-reformer
Annie Bidwell
A decreade in the money supply and overall lower prices
deflation
A socical and educational organization for farmers
National Grange
Democratic candidate for president in the 1888 election
William Jennings Bryan
New national party formed by the country’s farmers.
Populist Party