Chapter 17: Remaking the West

President Benjamin Harrison

________ sent the Army to restore order.

John M Chivington

November 29, 1864: ________ leads bloody rampage through Indian camp "Black Kettle: "Native Americans waved the US flag and white flag to surrender, but militia advanced and had a massacre.

Railroad companies

________ receive capital and unclaimed land as government bonds.

raw materials

West= ________ waiting to be harvested, used, and /or sold.

Timber Culture Act

The ________ of 1873 doubled land, popular misconception that trees would attract rain to dry regions.

precious metal

Placer mining: when a site had one ________ found, thousands of others would come and extract what they could.

Ghost Dance

________ was a way of morning, a prophecy, and resistance.

General William Techumseh Sherman

________ negotiates Sioux Treaty of 1868, reserving land for Sioux tribe in the Dakota Territory and adjoining land to the Black Hills.

Munn v Illinois

________: The Supreme Court declared that the states could regulate commerce in the name of public interest.

Anti miscegenation laws

________: prohibited white people from marrying people from Asian Descent.

enterprises

Commercial mining ________: businesses that offered a waged position in the company.

Fifteenth Amendment

________ prohibited racial disenfranchisement.

European horses

________ revolutionized plains life for Native Americans.

General Custer

The Sioux, as lead by Lakota chiefs, had an early victory when ________ thought he was facing a small army, not troops of 2.5K.

frontier

Farming ________: the ________ which was similar to the one envisioned by north easterners.

Grangers

________ held meetings and lobbied state legislatures to regulate railroad transportation prices and grain storage facilities.

Civil War

During ________, the Union designated western lands as federal territories.