Chief Joseph
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/a_c/chiefjoseph.htm
Reservations
Leader of the Nez Perce tribe who
resisted the government’s attempts to
relocate his tribe to a reservation
Dawes Act
1887 law which divided Indian lands among families and
granted US citizenship to those
who gave up tribal ties and
acted more “American”
Granger Movement
More Power for Farmers!
Fair Prices!
Western farmers who worked together to
improve their lives and control railroad prices
Homestead ActIf you
farm the land you can have
it – for free!
1862 act which gave 160 acres to any settler who farmed
the land for 5 years
IndianTreaties
Agreements between tribes
and the U.S. gov’t that were usually ignored when gold was
found!
Little Big Horn
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Little_Bighorn
Vs.
Site of the 1876 battle between
Sioux & Cheyenne warriors and the U.S. army led by General George
Custer
Reservations
Don’t fence me in!
Land where Native
Americans were forced to
live by the government
Steel Plow
A plow which could cut through
prairie soil, or sod
Transcontinental
Railroad
The first railroad which connected the East Coast with the West Coast
1800's belief that Americans had the right to spread across the continent
Term for the farmers living on the Great Plains in the
1800s
Sodbusters
http://www.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/ndirs/exhibitions/pioneer/camera/46.htm
Cattle Drive
Moving cattle to railroad lines(West East)
Wounded Knee
http://www.lastoftheindependents.com/wounded.htm
300 Native Americans
(Sioux/Lakota) were killed by the army here after fleeing
the reservations as a result of Sitting
Bull's death
Culture
Entire way of life developed
by a people