Briefly known as Maximilian of Poland during his claim for the throne; the Archduke of Further Austria from 1612 until his death
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Treaty of Washington
A treaty signed and ratified by the United Kingdom and the United States in 1871 during the first premiership of William Gladstone and the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant
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Alaska
A state in northwestern North America; the 49th state admitted to the union
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Indian Bureau
Formed on March 11, 1824, by Secretary of War John C. Calhoun, who created the agency as a division within his department, without authorization from the United States Congress
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Reservation System
Created to keep Native Americans off of lands that European Americans wished to settle
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Sioux Rebellion
An armed conflict between the United States and several bands of eastern Dakota also known as the Santee Sioux
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Sand Creek Massacre
A massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho people by the U.S. Army in the American Indian Wars that occurred on November 29, 1864, when a 675-man force of the Third Colorado Cavalry
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Crazy Horse
A chief of the Sioux who resisted the invasion of the Black Hills and joined Sitting Bull in the defeat of General Custer at Little Bighorn
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Sitting Bull
A chief of the Sioux; took up arms against settlers in the northern Great Plains and against United States Army troops
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George Armstrong Custer
A United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the American Indian Wars
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Battle of Little Big Horn
The battle, which resulted in the defeat of U.S. forces, was the most significant action of the Great Sioux War of 1876
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Buffalo/Bison
A critical part of Native American culture; every part of the bison provided something for their way of life
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A Century of Dishonor
A non-fiction book by Helen Hunt Jackson first published in 1881 that chronicled the experiences of Native Americans in the United States
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Dawes Severalty Act
Regulated land rights on tribal territories within the United States
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Homestead Act
Provided that any adult citizen, or intended citizen, who had never borne arms against the U.S. government could claim 160 acres of surveyed government land
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Frontier Thesis
Theorized that the availability of unsettled land throughout much of American history was the most important factor determining national development
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Telegraph
Worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations
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Telephone
Transmitting speech at a distance
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Transcontinental Railroad
Any continuous rail line connecting a location on the U.S. Pacific coast with one or more of the railroads of the nation's eastern trunk line rail systems operating between the Missouri or Mississippi Rivers and the U.S. Atlantic coast
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Texas Longhorns
Derives from cattle brought to the Americas by Spanish conquistadores from the time of the Second Voyage of Christopher Columbus until about 1512
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Chicago
Largest city in Illinois; a bustling Great Lakes port that extends 26 miles along the southwestern shoreline of Lake Michigan
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