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