Western Frontier Quiz

plains indians

nomadic lifestyle and hunting buffalo

Indian intercourse act

prohibited moving west of mississippi

sand creek massacre

American killed peaceful indians and provoked war

medicine lodge and ft laramine treaties

smaller reservations and assimilate

buffalo soldiers

African American calvary men protected settlers

battle of little big horn

largest american defeat to Indians

ghost dance

ceremony reconnect with land in hopes of getting rid of white and it concerned americans

dawes severalty act

aimed to end tribal life and assimilate NA

set up carlye school

homestead act

encouraged expansion by offering land to settlers

Newlands reclamation act

funded construction projects in west, $ from western land sales

railroad companies

largest landowner in the west

cowboys

black/mexican/euro responsible for cattle

bonaza farms

farming on huge scale

Exodusters

African Americans who migrated to kansas

frontier thesis

claimed that frontier was what made america american