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Native American Tribe that will flee capture from U.S. Troops, who almost make it to Canada.

American Indian tribe that started using horses in the 17th century. This allowed them to change from farming to nomadic buffalo hunting. (p. 4)

a religious dance of native Americans looking for communication with the dead

General Custer and his men were wiped out by a coalition of Sioux and Cheyenne Indians led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse

In 1890, after killing Sitting Bull, the 7th Cavalry rounded up Sioux at this place in South Dakota and 300 Natives were murdered and only a baby survived.

1862 law that gave 160 acres of land to citizens willing to live on and cultivate it for five years

President Ulysses S. Grant advances a "Peace Policy" to remove corrupt Indian agents, who supervise reservations, and replace them with Christian missionaries, whom he deems morally superior.

1887 law that distributed reservation land to individual Native American owners

in Pennsylvania to educate and civilize Indians, motto = "Kill the Indian and save the man"

Railroad connecting the west and east coasts of the continental US

Since cowboys lived by the Rule of Open Range, farmers needed to distinguish their territories somehow and prevent their crops from being trampled by cattle moving freely. - A businessman named Joseph Glidden changed everything with his invention of barbed wire

A name for the late 1800s, coined by Mark Twain to describe the tremendous increase in wealth caused by the industrial age and the ostentatious lifestyles it allowed the very rich. The great industrial success of the U.S. and the fabulous lifestyles of the wealthy hid the many social problems of the time, including a high poverty rate, a high crime rate, and corruption in the government.

A railroad owner who built a railway connecting Chicago and New York. He popularized the use of steel rails in his railroad, which made railroads safer and more economical.

Four year economic depression caused by overspeculation on railroads and western lands, and worsened by Grant's poor fiscal response (refusing to coin silver

Creator of the Standard Oil Company who made a fortune on it and joined with competing companies in trust agreements that in other words made an amazing monopoly.