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-influenced by Spanish and British traders
-adopted to changing conditions
-rode horses, shot guns |
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-1867
-assigned reservations in existing Indian Territories
-joined the Comanches, Plains, Kiowas, Cheyennes,and Arapahoes together with the Sioux, Shoshones, Bannocks, and Navajos |
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-Western Sioux
-loose confederation of bands scattered across the Great Plains
-one of the largest and most adaptive of all Indian nations
-followed buffalo herds |
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| -100 Colorado volunteers attacked and slaughtered 105 Cheyenne women and children and 28 Cheyenne men |
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| Great Sioux War of 1865-1867 |
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-Sioux fought US Army to a stalemate
-forced government to abandon its forts
-Sioux burned abondoned forts
-Sioux warrior "Red Cloud" |
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-Custer and troops wiped out by Indians
-US Army tracked down Indians
-Indians forced to surrender
-reason for public excitement of people prejudice towards Indians |
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-Indians who got along peacefully with settlers until gold was found
-Forced to cede land
-US army fought and sent them to Oklahoma |
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-Used Hydroelectricity
-Used water cannons to blast hillsides and expose gold deposits
-Drove rucklearth into rivers and canyons |
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-Morman settlements
-State of substantial rebellion
-US army occupied until they were forced into statehood |
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| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo |
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-Ended the Mexican American War
-Mexicans were given the decision to stay in the US or go back to Mexico |
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| -Group of Lawyers, politicians and land speculators stole land from mexican landholdings |
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| -Any Eligible American citizen was given 160 acres of land given they improved it and stayed there for 5 years |
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| "Land Grant"-colleges aquired space for campuses in return for promising to insitute agrilcultural programs. |
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| Created a series of experimental agrilcultural stations |
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| Timber Culture Act of 1873 |
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| Alloted homesteaders an additonal 160 acres of land in return for planting and cultivating forty acres of trees. |
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| Timber Culture Act of 1873 |
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| Alloted homesteaders an additonal 160 acres of land in return for planting and cultivating forty acres of trees. |
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| Forrest Management Act of 1897 |
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| Set the Federal Government on the path of large-scale regulatory activites. |
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| most famous of all western painters. war correspondent. captured battle scenes. |
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| poet and author. saw expansion as violation of treaty obligations. worked for Indian rights. wrote about government mistreatment of Indians |
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| Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 |
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| allowed the president to distribute land not to tribes but to individuals. dismantled tribes. |
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| Indian dance which depicted judgement day for Americans |
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| Cavalry massacred Sioux after mistaken gunshot. |
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| United States vs. Reynolds |
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| ruled against polygamy. granted freedom of belief but not practice. |
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