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GREAT PLAINS DURING THE WESTWARD EXPANSION

  • -Flat lands that rise gradually from east to west
  • -Land eroded by wind and water
  • Low rainfall
  • -Frequent dust storms
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2.

KLONDIKE GOLD RUSH

  • It was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors
  • Gold was discovered there on August 16, 1896
  • The Klondike Gold Rush ended in 1899 after gold was discovered
  • In nome.
3.

HOMESTEAD ACT

  • were several United States federal laws that gave an applicant ownership of land
  • was signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on May 20, 1862.
  • Several additional laws were enacted in the latter half of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • The Homestead Act of 1860 did pass in Congress, but it was stopped by President James.
4.

DAWES ACT

  • adopted by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of the United States
  • The Dawes Act was amended in 1891, and again in 1906 by the Burke Act.
  • The Act was named for its creator, Senator Henry Laurens Dawes of Massachusetts.
  • Dawes Act was to stimulate assimilation of Indians into mainstream American society.
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RESERVATIONS ACT

  • There are about 310 Indian reservations in the United States.
  • The collective geographical area of all reservations is 55,700,000 acres
  • Reservations are unevenly distributed throughout the country.
  • Because tribes possess tribal sovereignty, even though it is limited, laws on tribal lands vary.
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INDIAN WARS

  • American Indian Wars is the name used in the United States to describe the multiple conflicts about American settlers.
  • There was population pressure as settlers expanded their territory.
  • Many conflicts were local, involving disputes over land use, and some entailed cycles of reprisal.
  • Particularly in later years, conflicts were spurred by ideologies such as Manifest Destiny.
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LITTLE BIG HORN

  • This was the battle of little big horn.
  • was an armed engagement between combined forces of the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes.
  • Five of the 7th Cavalry's twelve companies were annihilated; Custer was killed.
  • The total U.S. casualty count, including scouts, was 268 dead and 55 injured
8.

SAND CREEK

  • was an atrocity in the Indian Wars that occurred on November 29, 1864.
  • a 700-man force of Colorado Territory militia attacked and destroyed a peaceful village of Cheyenne.
  • The location has been designated the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site.
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WOUNDED KNEE

  • began on February 27, 1973
  • The protest followed the failure of an effort of the Oglala Civil Rights Organization
  • Oglala and AIM activists controlled the town for 71 days.
  • The occupation attracted wide media coverage, especially after the press accompanied two U.S. Senators
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AMERICAN INDIAN CITIZENSHIP ACT

  • The Indian Citizenship Act of 1924, also known as the Snyder Act, was proposed by Representative Homer P.
  • The act was signed into law by President Calvin Coolidge on June 2, 1924.
  • It was enacted partially in recognition of the thousands of Indians who served in the armed forces in WWI.

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