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| Sitting Bull | Native American leader who lead the attack at Little Big Horn |
| Promontory Point | This is where the two builders of the Transcontinental Railroad meet |
| Dawes Severalty Act | This was supposed to "Americanize" Native Americans to encourage them to own land and begin farming |
| Assimilation | Trying to make the Native Americans merge with the white culture |
| The Great Plains | This is the vast grassland extending through the central part of the United States |
| Little Big Horn | Native Americans greatest victory over Custer's 7th calvary |
| Forty Niners | Miners who were looking for gold in California in 1849 |
| George Custer | This general's bad decisions lead to the defeat of his army division at Little Big Horn River |
| Sand Creek Massacre | This resulted when the Cheyenne and Arapaho were attacked without warning by the US army. Over 150 people were killed, mostly women and children |
| Battle at Wounded Knee | This resulted when the US army fired cannons on 300 starving and freezing Native Americans. Within minutes most were dead |
| Boom Town | Communities that grew extremely fast because of mining. |
| Bust Town | Communities that died quickly once a mine no longer produced |
| Battle at Wounded Knee | Marked the end of conflict between the Native Americans and federal army |
| White Settlers wanted the land for farming and mining | Why did the policy of treating the Great Plains as one large Indian reservation change? |
| white settlers | The Dawes Severalty Act was designed to benefit |
| encourage white families to develop the West | The intent of the Homestead Act was to |
| Many Native Americans did not want to become farmers | Which of the following is a reason the Dawes Severalty Act failed? |
| Nevada, Colorado and South Dakota grew rapidly | Which of the following was a lasting effect of the mining boom? |
| Native Americans were forced onto reservations while settlers took their land | How did the government's policy affect native Americans living on the plains in the late 1800s? |
| Frontier farmers faced harsh weather conditions such as drought, floods, and blizzards. Not all of the land available was suitable for farming. Settlers had to build their own houses, often either dugout | Identify and describe three hardships that frontier farmers faced in the mid to lat 1800s. |
