Concentration System correct answer: The US Govt allowed Native Americans to roam in 2 large areas of land--N & S of Transcontinental RR.
Genoa correct answer: NA's were taught trade skills for half a day and traditional white schooling the other half of the day in this Nebraska boarding schoo...
Frontier (old west, native americans, mining, farming)
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Concentration System correct answer: The US Govt allowed Native Americans to roam in 2 large areas of land--N & S of Transcontinental RR.
Genoa correct answer: NA's were taught trade skills for half a day and traditional white schooling the other half of the day in this Nebraska boarding school
Reservation System correct answer: place Native Americans on small areas of land and make them live like the white man.
Sand Creek Massacre correct answer: Chief Black Kettle moved Cheyenne to the reservation. John Chivington killed 500 of them, under a white flag of truce.
Medicine Creek Lodge Agreement correct answer: 1867, Comanche and Arapaho tribes agree to move to the reservation.
Ward of the State correct answer: A group or individual is taken
from homeland and becomes the responsibility of the government.
Little Bighorn correct answer: 1876 battle in Montana where Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse's 2000 warriors wiped out George Custer's unit of 200 Cavalry. Nez Perce correct answer: Native American Tribe, led by Chief Joseph, that evaded capture from U.S. troops, who almost made it to Canada.
Ghost Dance correct answer: A ritual, began by Wovoka, a Paiute Indian, the Sioux performed to bring back the buffalo and
return the Native American tribes to their land.
Dawes Act correct answer: 1887 law which gave all Native American males 160 acres to farm and also set up schools to make Native American children more like other Americans
Timber Culture Act correct answer: 1873- a person who planted
40 acres of trees and maintained timber for 10 years were granted 160 acres of land
Kinkaid Act correct answer: Moses Kinkaid of UNL--his plan to award 640 acres to homesteaders in dry western states. This promoted ranch lands.
Dry Farming correct answer: farming method used in dry regions in which land is plowed and planted deeply to hold water in the soil.
Bonanza Farms correct answer: large farms, over 50,000 acres, dominated in much of the West in the late 1800s; large amounts of machinery were used, and workers were hired laborers
Seward's Folly correct answer: many criticized William Seward's purchase of Alaska from Russia for 7.2 million dollars,
yet it's value is priceless.
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