The American West

Flashcards about the American West

What right was granted to black men after the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment?

The right to vote

What event took place on November 29, 1864, during the Civil War?

The Sand Creek Massacre

What native nations were formally recognized as holding the land where the Sand Creek Massacre occurred?

The Cheyenne and Arapaho

What treaty, signed in 1851, granted land to the Cheyenne and Arapaho?

The treaty of Fort Laramie

What event in 1864 led to a 'frenzied call to exterminate native people' in Colorado?

The murder of the Huncate family

Who was the governor of the Colorado territory who displayed the bodies of the Huncate family and called for volunteers to fight native people?

John Evans

What was the name of the regiment raised to fight native people in Colorado in 1864?

The third Colorado cavalry

Who were the Cheyenne and Arapaho leaders who sought peace with Governor Evans before the Sand Creek Massacre?

Black Kettle and White Antelope

What was the name of the officer who led the Third Colorado Cavalry at the Sand Creek Massacre?

Shimmington

What concept underpinned the idea that Americans had a righteous project to occupy the entirety of the continent?

Manifest destiny

What federal office dispersed 500,000,000 acres of land between 1860 and 1900?

The General Land Office

What was the term given to the violence, tension, and debate around who was allowed to tell the history of continental expansion?

Bloody wars

What was the purpose of the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887?

To break up tribal lands into individual allotments

What were reservations?

A bounded acreage of land where native people were moved and where they were expected to live and release claim to wide expanses of former territory

Who was known for their speeches which brought attention to the hypocrisy of what was happening to native peoples in the West?

She She Just

What Grant policy was also known as?

Peace Policy