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Reservations. Chief Joseph. http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/a_c/chiefjoseph.htm. Leader of the Nez Perce tribe who resisted the government’s attempts to relocate his tribe to a reservation. Dawes Act. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Chief Joseph

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

Reservations

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Leader of the Nez Perce tribe who

resisted the government’s attempts to

relocate his tribe to a reservation

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Dawes Act

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1887 law which divided Indian lands among families and

granted US citizenship to those

who gave up tribal ties and

acted more “American”

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Granger Movement

More Power for Farmers!

Fair Prices!

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Western farmers who worked together to

improve their lives and control railroad prices

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Homestead ActIf you

farm the land you can have

it – for free!

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1862 act which gave 160 acres to any settler who farmed

the land for 5 years

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IndianTreaties

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Agreements between tribes

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

found!

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Little Big Horn

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

Vs.

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Site of the 1876 battle between

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

Custer

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Reservations

Don’t fence me in!

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Land where Native

Americans were forced to

live by the government

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Steel Plow

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A plow which could cut through

prairie soil, or sod

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Transcontinental

Railroad

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

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

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Term for the farmers living on the Great Plains in the

1800s

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Sodbusters

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

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Cattle Drive

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Moving cattle to railroad lines(West East)

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Wounded Knee

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

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300 Native Americans

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

the reservations as a result of Sitting

Bull's death

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Culture

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Entire way of life developed

by a people