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Winchester
The ________ Repeating Rifle- very accurate and could fire.
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Joseph McCoy
________- 29 years old, bought 450 acres with some cabins for $ 5.
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Bull
1881- Sitting ________ surrendered after returning from Canada.
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stampedes
Lightning storms- caused ________.
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Chivington
________- The Chivington Massacre (also called the Sand.
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Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer
________ led the 7th.
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The tribe split into 2 groups
one
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The Cheyenne (Colorado)
Miners had forced the Cheyenne into
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Chivington
The Chivington Massacre (also called the Sand
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Creek Massacre)
November 29, 1864
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1865
over 15,000,000 buffalo were on the Great Plains
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1886
only 600_ buffalo were on the Great Plains
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The Winchester Repeating Rifle
very accurate and could fire
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d.) Demand for buffalo hides
used for harnesses, furniture,
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1872-1876
9 million buffalo were killed
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"Custers Last Stand" (June 25, 1876)
The Battle of Little Bighorn_
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at the age of 23 (the youngest in U.S. History)
had returned to
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Sitting Bull (Tatanka Lotanka)
overall leader of the
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Crazy Horse (Tashunka Witka)
great military leader
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Reaction
the battle had a great impact on U.S. views of N.A
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c.) 1877
Crazy Horse surrendered and was killed at Ft. Robinson
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1881
Sitting Bull surrendered after returning from Canada
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C.) Battle of Wounded Knee  (South Dakota)
Dec. 29,1890
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Lakota women and children were also killed
some had ran
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1869
Sending Native American children to boarding schools
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Form of kidnapping
children were taken against the
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Children will be taught English
hoped that the children
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emotional abuse
disease; malnourishment; overcrowding;
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Act would give Native Americans land
divide the
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Male head of families
 160 acres each
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Women and bachelors
80 acres each
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successful
if they were successful, they would be
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Whites
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African Americans
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Asian Americans
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Hispanic Americans
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Native Americans
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Centered around the Texas Longhorn
mix of Spanish and
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Could be panicked easily
only negative
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Joseph McCoy
29 years old, bought 450 acres with some cabins for $5
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Abilene)
1,000 miles
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Overgrazing
caused an inferior grade of cattle (beef) and
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Lightning storms
caused stampedes
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Texas__ Fever
Longhorn cattle brought a germ, that they were
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_Barbed Wire
began to appear on the Chisholm Trail in 1876, which poked cows
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Also severe droughts in those 2 summers
dried up streams
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Civil War
By the _______, there were approximately 225,000 N.A. on
the Great Plains
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horses
Also, it became easier to hunt buffalo because _______ were more
available. Before the horse was used, N.A. hunted buffalo by
foot, or were farmers.
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Transcontinental Railroad
Plans for building the ____________ meant that the
best route had to be mapped out, which caused whites to
travel through this region.
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Oregon
The U.S. army had built forts along the _________ Trail to protect
settlers moving west.
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Reservations
Native Americans had signed treaties that placed them within
certain boundaries, which eventually led to _____________
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Minnasota
The Sioux (Minnesota, Wyoming, Montana) and the Dakotas:
Fighting began in 1862 when 5 whites were killed by a
group of young Sioux. The tribe split into 2 groups: one
group retreated, but the other group attacked, killing
hundreds of white settlers. In response, 38 Sioux were
put to death and the Sioux were forced to leave __________.
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Cheyenne
The __________ (Colorado): Miners had forced the Cheyenne into
the Sand Creek Reserve (southeastern Colorado)
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1865 - over 15,000,000 buffalo were on the Great Plains
1886 - only _______ buffalo were on the Great Plains
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Black Hills
By 1868, the Sioux were located in the _______ (South Dakota/
Wyoming border)
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Little Bighorn
“Custer’s Last Stand” (June 25, 1876) - The Battle of _________
Bighorn (named after the Little Bighorn River)
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Wounded Knee
Battle of ____________________ (South Dakota) - Dec. 29,1890

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Assimilation
The U.S. gov’t decided that Native Americans needed
___________ (the immersion into “American Culture”)
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hair
Children had their ____ cut similar to white children
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English
Children were given __________ sounding names
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boarding
Eventually there were 408 federal “Indian” _____ schools
that were in use up to 1969
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25 years
Native Americans were given _______ to become
successful - if they were successful, they would be
given the title to the land
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poverty
Native Americans have a higher rate of addiction today then
any other group, have a higher _______ rate and a higher
suicide rate
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Texas
_____ Fever - Longhorn cattle brought a germ, that they were
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Barbed
______ Wire - began to appear on the Chisholm Trail in 1876, which poked cows
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