Chapter 19 - The Settlement of the West

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White hunters

________- Killed for hides.

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1863

Sent to Mexico → Antagonized Mexicans

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International arbitration

Non-biased nations judge conflicts

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1867

Bought for $7.2 mil (Sewards Folly)

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Dakota Sioux

Unfair Indian Bureau agents

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Custer

Divided forces + didnt properly scout

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White hunters

Killed for hides

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1881

Helen Hunt Jackson

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Chief Joseph

Led 700 Native Americans to Canada

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1862

Passed by Congress

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1893

Frederick Jackson Turner

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1844

Invented by Samuel F.B

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1861

Telegraph line reaches San Francisco

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1866

Transatlantic cable b/w US + UK

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1876

Invented by Alexander Graham Bell

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1862-1869

Completed @ Promontory Point, Utah

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The Jungle

Upton Sinclair

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1862-1890

Settled vast lands

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Archduke Maximilian

Briefly known as Maximilian of Poland during his claim for the throne; the Archduke of Further Austria from 1612 until his death

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Treaty of Washington

A treaty signed and ratified by the United Kingdom and the United States in 1871 during the first premiership of William Gladstone and the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant

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Alaska

A state in northwestern North America; the 49th state admitted to the union

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Indian Bureau

Formed on March 11, 1824, by Secretary of War John C. Calhoun, who created the agency as a division within his department, without authorization from the United States Congress

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Reservation System

Created to keep Native Americans off of lands that European Americans wished to settle

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Sioux Rebellion

An armed conflict between the United States and several bands of eastern Dakota also known as the Santee Sioux

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Sand Creek Massacre

A massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho people by the U.S. Army in the American Indian Wars that occurred on November 29, 1864, when a 675-man force of the Third Colorado Cavalry

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Crazy Horse

A chief of the Sioux who resisted the invasion of the Black Hills and joined Sitting Bull in the defeat of General Custer at Little Bighorn

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Sitting Bull

A chief of the Sioux; took up arms against settlers in the northern Great Plains and against United States Army troops

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George Armstrong Custer

A United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the American Indian Wars

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Battle of Little Big Horn

The battle, which resulted in the defeat of U.S. forces, was the most significant action of the Great Sioux War of 1876

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Buffalo/Bison

A critical part of Native American culture; every part of the bison provided something for their way of life

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A Century of Dishonor

A non-fiction book by Helen Hunt Jackson first published in 1881 that chronicled the experiences of Native Americans in the United States

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Dawes Severalty Act

Regulated land rights on tribal territories within the United States

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Homestead Act

Provided that any adult citizen, or intended citizen, who had never borne arms against the U.S. government could claim 160 acres of surveyed government land

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Frontier Thesis

Theorized that the availability of unsettled land throughout much of American history was the most important factor determining national development

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Telegraph

Worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations

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Telephone

Transmitting speech at a distance

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Transcontinental Railroad

Any continuous rail line connecting a location on the U.S. Pacific coast with one or more of the railroads of the nation's eastern trunk line rail systems operating between the Missouri or Mississippi Rivers and the U.S. Atlantic coast

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Texas Longhorns

Derives from cattle brought to the Americas by Spanish conquistadores from the time of the Second Voyage of Christopher Columbus until about 1512

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Chicago

Largest city in Illinois; a bustling Great Lakes port that extends 26 miles along the southwestern shoreline of Lake Michigan

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