American History - daily quiz- Chapter 6, Section 2

Exoduster

"promise land" was in Kansas and Oklahoma, where they planted crops and founded several enduring all -black towns

Battle of the Little Big Horn

1876 battle in which the Sioux defeated U.S. Army troops

Sitting Bull

Chief of the Sioux - assembled to drive Sioux out, but the U.S. Army sent in its own troops against the Native Americans

Wounded Knee

South Dakota - where the tragic end of the Ghost Dance War was which sealed the Indian's demise

Transcontinental Railroad

a rail link between the East and the West

land grant

giving builders wide stretches of land

Chief Joseph

led a group of refugees on a trek of more than 1,300 miles to Canada

open-range system

property was not fenced in

Dawes General Allotment Act

replaced the reservation system with an allotment system

vigilante

self - appointed law enforcers that punished law - breakers

Sand Creek Massacre

spawned another round of warfare as plains Indians joined forces to repel white settlement

reservations

specific areas set aside by the government for the Indian's use

Homestead Act

the government offered farm plots of 160 acres to anyone willing to live on land for five years, dig a well, and build a road

assimilate

to be absorbed into the main culture of a society