| A | B |
|---|
| Chief Joseph | tried to lead the Nez Perces to Canada |
| Samuel Colt | invented the six-shooter |
| George Custer | was defeated at Little Big Horn |
| Dawes Act | intended to "Americanize" the Indians |
| Homestead Act | provided settlers with 160 acres of free land in the West |
| Helen Hunt Jackson | wrote a book dramatizing the plight of the Native Americans |
| William Sherman | Civil War hero turned Indian fighter |
| Wounded Knee | site of slaughter of 200 unarmed Indians in 1890 |
