The American Yawp: Conquering the West

North American region, consisting of 13 states, that stretches from the Great Plains to the Pacific Ocean and includes Alaska to the north and Hawaii in the pacific

The West

Drove migrants, emigrants, and settlers to search for gold and farming.

The Allure of Land

1862 law that gave 160 acres of land to citizens willing to live on and cultivate it for five years

The Homestead Act

The U.S. federal government recognized American Indian tribes as independent nations and came to policy agreements with them via treaties.

Independent Indians

The ________ involved Native Americans angry for not receiving promised annuity payments attacking white settlers on their land; as a response, an armed militia regained control and the leaders of the attack were executed.

The Dakota Wars

1864 incident in which Colonel John Chivington ordered his militia to kill 200 men, women and children in Cheyenne

The Sand Creek Massacre

A 300-mile forced march of Navajo captives to a reservation at Bosque Redondo

The Long Walk

An unprecedented treaty in the history of U.S.-Indian relations in which the Navajo were able to return from the reservation to their homeland.

The Treaty of Bosque Redondo

Leader of the Nez Perce in their retreat from United States troops to Canada

Chief Joseph

Who said, "I will no more forever"?

Chief Joseph

Made the settlement and growth of the West possible

Railroads of the West

Railroad connecting the west and east coasts of the continental US that linked in Utah

Transcontinental Railroad

This refers to the forced migration of massive numbers of cattle to the railroads where they could be shipped to the East.

The Cattle drives

A federal law that broke up reservations, gave plots of land to the Indians to farm individually, and required them to learn English and take on the white culture

The Dawes Act

A ritual the Sioux performed to bring back the buffalo and return the Native American tribes to their land.

The Ghost Dance

This conflict on December 29, 1890 marked the final major armed conflict between the US and the Plains Indians resulting in the slaughter of an estimated 150-300 Native men, women, and children

Wounded Knee

The argument by Frederick Jackson Turner that the frontier experience helped make American socity more democratic; emphasized cheap, unsettled land and the absence of a landed aristocracy.

The Frontier Thesis

What drove many settlers to the West after the Civil War?

Homestead Act land claims

Which Native American tribe was involved in the Dakota War of 1862?

Dakota

US. militia massacred the Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians in the event?

Sand Creek Massacre

What was the goal of the Dawes Act?

Assimilate Native Americans into American culture

What event is associated with Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer?

The Battle of Little Bighorn

In 1876, Indian leaders Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse defeated Custer's troops who tried to force them back on to the reservation, Custer and all his men died

The Battle of Little Bighorn

Which tribe was involved in the Long Walk to Bosque Redondo?

Navajo

Which group was targeted by the U.S. military in the Red River War?

Comanche

What was a significant outcome of the first Treaty of Fort Laramie?

Secured right of way access for American settlers