Ch 13 Notes

Different views of land

Indians:

White settlers:

Reservations and buffalo

Sand Creek Massacre: Cheyenne chief Black Kettle and Colonel Chivington

What caused it?

Outcome?

Battle of Little Bighorn: Sitting Bull and General Custer

Cause, outcome and significance?

Ghost Dance

Wounded Knee Massacre

Cause, outcome and significance?

The end of resistance

Americanization

Bureau of Indian Affairs

Dawes Act

Klondike Gold Rush

Mining Camps: what they were like

Three types of mining:

Placer

Hydraulic

Hard-rock

Cattle ranches : Texas longhorns

Cows v sheep

$4 in Texas or $40 in the north?

Chisholm Trail

Joseph Glidden and ranching

Homestead Act

Pacific Railway Act

Morrill Act

Railroads and settlement

Oklahoma Land Run of 1889

Whites, African Americans, Europeans and Chinese migrated west

Frederick Jackson Turner

Benjamin Pap Singleton

Exodusters

Farming

Hard because of harsh weather

Innovations

James Oliver

Bonanza farms