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United States writer of romantic novels about the unjust treatment of Native Americans.
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people that left ireland for oppurtinuties in America. usually worked in factories.
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Leader of Nez Perce. Fled with his tribe to Canada instead of reservations. However, US troops came and fought and brought them back down to reservations
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The Pikes Peak Gold rush, later known as the Colorado Gold rush started in 1859. About 100,000 people played a role in this huge gold rush. Much gold was found near streams in the South Platte River Valley.
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skilled riders who herded cattle on ranches in Mexico, California, and the Southwest
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Federal law that gave land to western states to build agricultural and engineering colleges.
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Act that allowed a settler to get as much as 160 acres of land by living on it for 5 years for moving to the west.
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Came in small groups and usually settled in the west in search of gold. They are also famous for building the railroads
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U.S army colonel John M. Chivington attacked a peaceful Cheyenne settlement along Sand Creek River. The Cheyenne under Chief Black kettle tried to surrender. First he waved the America Flag and the White flag of surrender. Chivington ignored the gestures. The U.S army killed about 200 Cheyenne during the conflict
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cowboys drove herds of cattle along trails to be shipped to the East by railroad
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1868 treaty with the Sioux that led to a brief period of peace but that focused on Americanizing the Sioux. It was repeatedly violated by whites who wanted gold on Lakota Sioux land.
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Completed in 1869 at Promontory, Utah, it linked the eastern railroad system with California's railroad system, revolutionizing transportation in the west
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General Custer and his men were wiped out by a coalition of Sioux and Cheyenne Indians led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse
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African Americans who moved from post reconstruction South to Kansas.
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Helen Hunt Jackson's book
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property was not fenced in though ranchers claimed ownership and knew the boundaries of their property , cattle from any ranch grazed freely across those boundaries.
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law that divided reservation land into private family plots for whites
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former Indian lands opened up for settlement, resulting in a race to lay claim for a homestead.
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American Indian medicine man, chief, and political leader of his tribe at the time of the Custer massacre during the Sioux War
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US soldiers massacred 300 unarmed Native American whiched ended the Indian Wars
