HI80 Unit 2 The Wild West

Boomtown

Communities that grew suddenly when a mine is open

Transcontinental Railroad

A railroad that would cross the continent and connect the East coast to the West coast

Treaty of Fort Laramie

First major treaty btwn U.S. Govt. and Plains Indians

Reservations

Federal Land set aside for Native Americans

Crazy Horse

Chief of Sioux tribe

George Custer

Lieutenant in U.S. Army whose soldiers discovered gold in the Black ills of the Dakotas and led army to Sioux to make them surrender, but failed and only left alive

Sitting Bull

A leader of the Lakota Sioux and protested U.S. demands for land

Battle of The Little Bighorn

Battle led by Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull that had Sioux forces surround and defeat Custer and his troops

Massacre at Wounded Knee

Last major incident that killed 150 sioux on the Great Plains

Sand Creek Massacre

General Chivington given orders to kill 150 men, women, and children from the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes

Carlisle School

Boarding school for Native Americans

Assimilate

“Americanize” Indians

Dawes Act

Act that tried to lessen the traditional influences on Indian society by making land ownership private than showed

Land Grants

Idea that Federal Government gives 170 million acres to railroad companies

Open Range

Idea that property wasn’t fenced in

Homestead Act

Gave government owned land to anybody if they live there for 5 years, dig a well, and build a road

Morrill Act

Gave more than 17 million acres of federal land to the states

Exodusters

fled from “Bondage” to the promised land of the west

Soddies

Houses on the plains since most could not afford lumber

Chinese Exclusion Act

First federal law preventing immigration