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African Americans exiting the South, going out West in search of a better life.
They wanted to escape the (hostile environment) failures of the Reconstruction Era. (Ex. Limited rights (Jim Crow Laws), KKK, sharecropping) |
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Indians called the African American soldiers who protected life in the west, "Buffalo Soldiers". (because of their wooly heads of hair, much like a buffalo's matted head hair)
(African American |
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the process of separating gold from other sands through washing.
(Items needed to mine for gold were a pick, a pack animal and determination!) |
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The point at which the two railway line tracks connected the East & West.
(4 specially forged spikes were hammered in place...2 Gold,1 Silver,& 1
Composite) |
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1. Cherokees lost 2/3 of their land
2. Cherokees were forced to march 850 miles to Oklahoma
3. 4,000 Died(mostly elderly & children)
4. Forced to adopt American ways |
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The Native American term, "Lakota" meaning, "friend"
The South Dakota Reservation located closest to Canada. |
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Settlers referred to the Lakota's as
"Sioux" meaning ENEMY. |
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| to be forced to adopt the customs of another culture. |
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| Sand Creek Massacre (1864) |
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*Tired of fighting with settlers, the Arapaho and Cheyenne Indians moved onto gov't sanctioned land in Colorado.
*U.S. troops attacked their camp despite efforts to surrender.
*450 men, women and children were killed and scalped. |
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| Red River War (1874-1875) |
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*5,000 Comanche, Kiowa and Cheyenne fled their reservations in Oklahoma to return to their native lands in Texas.
*The U.S. military forcefully herded the Native Americans back to the reservations & opened fire on anyone resisting.
*74 major Native American leaders were imprisioned in Florida. |
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*The U.S. Army rounded up 350 starving, freezing Sioux and took them to a camp called Wounded Knee in South Dakota.
*Soldiers demanded that all weapons be surrendered.
*A shot was fired and the U.S. Army fired into the Sioux killing 300 unarmed women and children; their bodies were left to freeze on the ground. |
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| Fetterman Massacre (1866) |
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*The Bozeman Trail was created to facilitate gold mining, but ran through Sioux hunting grounds.
*Chief Red Cloud was able to kill U.S.
Army Captain Fetterman and 82 of his soldiers.
*This led to placing Native Americans on reservations. |
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| Battle of Little Big Horn (1876) |
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*Under the leadership of Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, the Sioux and Cheyenne tribes successfully defeated Lt. Colonel Custer and 264 U.S.soldiers.
*Although they won the battle, they eventually surrendered their lands to the U.S. Gov't in 1877. |
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| Native Americans were place on tracts of un-usable land, under the supervision and laws of the U.S. Gov't. Native Americans were placed on these lands to civilize them, isolate them and teach them to farm. |
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A law passed by the U.S. Gov't where...
*Native Americans were forced to assimilate.(adopt customs of another culture)
*Native American families received 160 acres of un-usable land.
*Native Americans were to receive farm supplies & payment for selling their land to the U.S. |
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| the government encouraged Americans or immigrants to move West with land and supplies. |
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Gold
Silver
Rich Soil
Buffalo |
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| Americans had the right to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific. |
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| Conflict between settlers & Native Americans erupted because..... |
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of their views of land ownership.
SETTLERS/U.S. GOV'T believed land should be privately owned and built upon and profited from.
NATIVE AMERICANS believed land should be shared by all and preserved. |
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