America History test

The Native Nation of the plains

Native Americans

Native American culture.

Fight against other tribes.

No landownership.

Migratory with seasons.

religious reverence for nature.

Education of youth revolved around survival skills and tribal protection.

Bison(buffalo) population

In the 19th century millions of bisons roamed the United States.

What did William Tecumseh Sherman and Ulysses S. Grant do to bisons and why

They spread mass massacres of bison, to weaken the Native American tribes so they can’t have food to hunt and take land.

“Buffalo Bill” Cody

Reportedly killed 4,282 bison in 18 months.

The homestead act of 1862

Any American who applied got 160 acres of land in the plains, requires to farm the land for 5 years.

The black hills.

Named Paha Sapa by the Lakota.

Paha Sapa

The Lakota’s believe this is where the earth and the universe started/ came from.

The Lakota

A Native American tribe

The Lakota right of passage.

Once puberty hits, they strip you down, sent you to the Paha Sapa, no drinks, food or sleep allowed for days until nature starts talking to you. And tell you your name and meaning in life.

The Boseman trail

a 500-mile overland shortcut in the mid-19th century that connected the Oregon Trail in Wyoming to the gold fields around Virginia City, Montana

Chief Red Cloud

A Lakota tribe leader who sent the Lakotas to kill the Americans.

What did the American do to stop the Lakota’s aggression to Americans

They asked for a piece talk at Fort Laramie

Treaty with chief Red Cloud

The Black hills stay the same and are kept protected.

What is the treat the Lakota and the American had to stop the Lakota from killing Americans

1868 Fort Laramie treaty.

Great Sioux reservation

land given by the American tot he Lakota’s to live and no American is allowed in that soil.

1876(lack of gold)

No more gold in Monatana, no more gold else where ets…

What was in South Dakota( Great Sioux Reservoir)

The largest reserve of clean, natural gold.

President grants response to American intruding in the Sioux Reservoir for gold.

He does nothng

What do Lakota warriors, Sitting Bull and Crazy horse start

They start a revolution against the Americans.

Shirt wearers

Special stylized shirts that make chose Lakota warriors stand out in Lakota society.

Black buffalo Woman

Crazy Horse’s crush who was already married

Divorce in Lakota tribe

man can’t divorce, the wife has to remove the man’s belongings outside to divorce.

Crazy horse gets attacked

He has half of his head blown off by Black Buffalo woman’s ex husband. But he survives.

Crazy horse’s quote

“A warrior is the first to go hungry and the last to eat”

General George Armstrong Custer

Crazy horse’s biggest rival.

He is from Ohio

Parents died sister raised him

Moved to Monroe Michigan

Elizabeth(Libby)

General George Armstrong Custer’s crush who push him away every time he confessed.

West Point

A military academy founded by George waahinton

George Armstrong Custer’s quote

“I never wanted to be smart, I only wanted to be great”

The battle of Gettysburg(Custer)

His audacity helped him win. He commanded. Small group he called (the Wolverines)

Who’d did General Custer hire

A Native American named by him “Curly”

General Custer and the seventh

Custer chose to attack the Lakotas when he only had 700 of U.S cavalry and the Lakota’s were 2000

June 25th 1876( morning of the battle of Little Big Horn)

Crazy horse sent Sitting Bull to attack the Americans.

Reno and some of his men run away.

Custer and his troop is surrounded y Native Americans and are killed.

Sitting Bulls fate

He gets asked by Buffalo Bill to join his troop and travel around the world. He leaves the troop a while after.

He gets shot by another Lakota and dies.

Crazy Horse’s fate.

HE goes begging for food after his tribe starts starving. He gets asked stage through his stomach, kidney, intestine’s by blade, by an Americans solder and dies 48 hours later.