Chief Joseph

http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/a_c/chiefjoseph.htm

Reservations

Leader of the Nez Perce tribe who

resisted the government’s attempts to

relocate his tribe to a reservation

Dawes Act

1887 law which divided Indian lands among families and

granted US citizenship to those

who gave up tribal ties and

acted more “American”

Granger Movement

More Power for Farmers!

Fair Prices!

Western farmers who worked together to

improve their lives and control railroad prices

Homestead ActIf you

farm the land you can have

it – for free!

1862 act which gave 160 acres to any settler who farmed

the land for 5 years

IndianTreaties

Agreements between tribes

and the U.S. gov’t that were usually ignored when gold was

found!

Little Big Horn

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Little_Bighorn

Vs.

Site of the 1876 battle between

Sioux & Cheyenne warriors and the U.S. army led by General George

Custer

Reservations

Don’t fence me in!

Land where Native

Americans were forced to

live by the government

Steel Plow

A plow which could cut through

prairie soil, or sod

Transcontinental

Railroad

The first railroad which connected the East Coast with the West Coast

Manifest Destiny

1800's belief that Americans had the right to spread across the continent

Term for the farmers living on the Great Plains in the

1800s

Sodbusters

http://www.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/ndirs/exhibitions/pioneer/camera/46.htm

Cattle Drive

Moving cattle to railroad lines(West East)

Wounded Knee

http://www.lastoftheindependents.com/wounded.htm

300 Native Americans

(Sioux/Lakota) were killed by the army here after fleeing

the reservations as a result of Sitting

Bull's death

Culture

Entire way of life developed

by a people