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Mr. Barrios Chp. 17 Vocab

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Great Plains
area the stretched from north Texas to Canadian border. Flat and treeless.
prairie
grassland
reservations
areas set aside for Indian resettlement
Little Big Horn
site in Montana where six Indians defeated col Custer and his calvary unit
Wounded Knee
place in South Dakota where the calvary massacred innocent siux Indians
Dawes act of 1881
granted citizenship to any Indian who would leave reservation and adopt white mans ways
Col. George Custer
commander of calvary unit
Cheif Joseph
leader of new peace who led US calvary on 1,000 mile chase until he surrendered
Helen Hunt Jackson
wrote a "century of dishonor" and showed mistreatment of American Indians
Sarah Winnemucca
Paiute against the government's treatment of Native Americans
Cattle Kingdom
texas
Annie Oakley
performer in buffalo bills Wild West show, known for being a sharpshooter
the great American desert
name given to Great Plains
willa Cather
wrote "O pioneer"
Hamlin garland
wrote "main traveled roads"
Homestead Act of 1862
gave 160 acres of free land to anyone who would move to Great Plains
crazy horse
leader of Sioux who defeated Custer
longhorns
breed of cattle found in Texas
long drives
movement of cattle from Texas to Kansas to be loaded into trains
sod houses
type of homes built in Great Plains
dry farming
type of farming on Great Plains where crops are planted far apart to use available moisture
Sooners
first settlers to move to Oklahoma
Joseph gladden
Invented barbed wire
Daniel Halladay
invented self governing windmill
John Deere
invented the first steel plow
Comstock Lode
largest silver mine discovered in America
vigilantes
private citizens who took law into their own hands
ghost towns
mining towns that died out whenever gold and silver ran out
bret harte
wrote The Luck of the Roaring Camp
fifty niners
people who went to Colorado in search for gold
nat love
famous black cowboy of old west
sioux
most powerful group of plains Indians
Promontory Point, Utah
site in Utah where transcontinental railroad was completed
comanches
a group of plains Indians who were noted for horse breeding skills
Chisholm trail
route along which herds of cattle were moved from Texas to Kansas to market
apaches
last group of American Indians to surrender to US calvary
Merrill act
provided land to States for west of agricultural mechanical colleges
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