front 1 Sitting Bull | back 1 This leader of the Hunkpapa Sioux never signed the Treaty of 1868. He
helped to defeat the U.S. Army at the |
front 2 Red Cloud | back 2 He was the first American Indian in the West to win a war against the United States. |
front 3 Dawes Act | back 3 Also known as the General Allotment Act, the law authorized the President to break up reservation land, which was held in common by the members of a tribe, into small allotments to be parceled out to individuals |
front 4 assimilation | back 4 This was supposed to "Americanize" Native Americans by
encouraging in them the desire to own property |
front 5 Great Plains | back 5 The vast grassland extending through the west-central portion of the United States. |
front 6 Ghost Dance | back 6 A ritual to restore the Native American way of life. |
front 7 Chisholm Trail | back 7 The major cattle route from San Antonio, Texas, through Oklahoma to Kansas. |
front 8 George A. Custer | back 8 This colonel's bad judgment in attacking Native American warriors at
the Little Bighorn River resulted in his |
front 9 Sand Creek Massacre | back 9 This resulted when the peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho were attacked
without warning by the U.S. Anny. |
front 10 Battle of Wounded Knee | back 10 This resulted when the U.S. Army fired cannons on 340 starving, freezing Sioux; within minutes, 300 of them were dead. |
front 11 William J. Fetterman | back 11 was an officer in the United States Army during the American Civil War. Fetterman and his command of 80 men were killed in the Fetterman Fight. |
front 12 Homesteader | back 12 settler who farmed land given by the federal government |
front 13 soddy | back 13 home made out of prairie turf |
front 14 Morrill Act | back 14 gave federal land to the states to help finance agricultural colleges |
front 15 bonanza farm | back 15 massive single-crop farm owned by railroad companies and private investors |
front 16 manifest destiny. | back 16 The idea was that America had a God-given right to expand across the continent. |
front 17 Victory at the Alamo | back 17 inspired the Texans to win their independence from Mexico |
front 18 James K. Polk | back 18 was the U.S. president during the War with Mexico. |
front 19 The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | back 19 ended the War with Mexico. |
front 20 The "forty-niners" | back 20 were prospectors in the California gold rush of 1849. |