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Westward
Expansion
Frontier
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Great Plains
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Prospector/Miner
The movement of settlers
into the central and western
parts of the United States
An area where people have never
lived before, that not much is known
about, especially in the western US
before the 20th century
Someone
who looks
for gold,
minerals, oil
etc
A large area of flat, high land
in the western central US
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Rancher/Cowhand
(Vaquero)
Boomtown
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Famous Outlaws
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Vigilantes
Someone who owns or works
on a ranch caring for cattle
Someone
who illegally
punishes
criminals
and tries to
prevent crime
A town or city that
suddenly becomes
very successful
because there
is a lot of new
industry
Billy the Kid
John Wesley Harding
Doc Holiday
Jesse James
Butch Cassidy &
the Sundance Kid
The Apache Kid
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Barbed Wire
Displacement
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Reservation
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Indian Tribe Names
(just a few - there are hundreds)
When a group of people are
forced to leave an area
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Sioux
Apache
Nez Perce
Navajo
Illini
Cherokee
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Cree
Menominee
Mohican
Comanche
Shawnee
Blackfoot
Wire with short
sharp points on it
used to make
fences. This
invention changed
both the landscape
and economics of
the 1870’s
An area of
land in the US
kept separate
for Native
Americans to
live on
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Sand Creek
Massacre
Treaty
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Bozeman Trail
Fetterman
Massacre
A formal written agreement between
two or more countries or governments
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Government response to Cheyenne warriors
attacking miners and soldiers
1200 Colorado militia opened fire on a peaceful
Cheyenne village
150 Cheyenne men, women and children were killed
United Stated Captain W. J. Fetterman and
80 troopers stumbled into a deadly ambush set
by the Sioux Indians. All the soldiers were killed.
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Government built trail though Sioux hunting
grounds
Sioux worriers attacked construction workers
Fetterman Massacre - Native American ambush
that killed US 80 troupers
Sitting Bull
&
Crazy Horse
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General Custer
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Battle of
Little Big Horn
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Chief Joseph
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Civil War Hero
Attempted to force
the Native
Americans to return
to their reservations
Killed at The Battle
of Little Big Horn
with all his men
Nez Perce Indian Chief
Fled with his people to
Canada
Surrendered after
being chased for four
months saying, “I will
fight no more, forever.”
Two Sioux Indian Chiefs who fought
and defeated General Custer at the
Battle of Little Big Horn
Civil War hero Colonel George Custer and
Hundreds of his men were killed in less than two
hours when they met several thousand Sioux and
Cheyenne warriors near Little Big Horn River
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Wounded Knee
Massacre
Geronimo
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Assimilate
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Boarding School
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The U.S. Army was
sent to round up
the Ghost Warriors
Someone fired a
shot as the Sioux
were giving up their
weapons
Troopers responded
killing nearly 300
men, women, and
children
Schools where
students live as
well as study
Native Americans
Indians were
”Americanized”
(1829-1909) an Apache chief who fought white
settlers so that his people could continue living on
their own land in New Mexico and Arizona. In
1866 the US army caught him after a five month
chase and forced his people to move to Oklahoma
The process of blending
into a society
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Women
in the West
Dawes Act
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Mexicanos
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Legends
of the Old West
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Women held many of the
same jobs as men
Many had lonely isolated
lives, rarely leaving home
Conditions were very
hard
Some states
eventually allowed
women to vote
Bat Masterson
Jesse & Frank James
Dalton Brothers
Kit Carson
Younger Brothers
Wyatt Earp
Buffalo Bill
Wild Bill Hickok
Doc Holiday
Butch Cassidy
A law created in
1887 that divided
reservation land
into sections to be
owned by
individual Indians
and some
white settlers
Spanish-speaking
South-westerners
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Buffalo Soldiers
Homestead Act
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Sodbuster
Grange
Nickname given to the "Negro Cavalry" by
the Native American tribes they fought
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A law passed in 1862
Offered 160 acres of free land
Settlers had to agree to live on and improve
the land for 5 years
A group formed to meet the
economic and social needs of farmers
A farmer or farm worker who
breaks up the soil to plow the land
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Cooperative
Populist Party
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Free Silver
Standard
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Gold Standard
Also known as the People’s Party. This
group wanted laws that would raise crop
prices - farmers supported this party
A policy under which the government backs every
dollar with a certain amount of gold. Each ounce
of gold can always be exchanged for a certain
dollar amount determined by the Federal Reserve
Organizations formed by Grange
members to assist farm families
who lived far from one another
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A policy supported by the
Populist Party (farmers) that
allowed for unlimited coining
(making) of silver coins
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Farmers felt that this would
allow them to have easier access
to loans, but it would also lead to
uncontrolled inflation
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The more coins that are minted
(printed), the less valuable each
coin becomes