5a+The+West


 * Plains Indians ||  ||
 * Cowboy culture ||  ||
 * Buffalo || Plains Indians (such as the Lakota, AKA the Sioux) would hunt these and use pretty much every part of the beast for food, shelter, or equipment. White settlers came through and wastefully killed the free and wild beasts for sport, angering the Indians at such behavior. ||
 * Frederick Jackson Turner's Frontier Thesis ||  ||
 * Southwestern Hispanic societies ||  ||
 * Californios ||  ||
 * Concentration policy ||  ||
 * Chinatowns ||  ||
 * Reservations || Plots of land that the United States government assigned to Native American tribes. The Indians were to live on these plots of land and remain segregated from the general population to prevent any further conflict and battles that resulted from the American encroachment on Indian land during westward expansion. ||
 * Chinese Immigration Act of 1882 || Also called the Chinese Exclusion Act, was signed in 1882 having been passed by Congress and signed by Chester A. Arthur, the Act excluded the Chinese from migrating to the US. The Act stated that for the following ten years, the Chinese laborers were suspended from coming to the US. ||
 * Indian Wars || Conflicts between American settlers or the American government and American Indians. ||
 * Homestead Act of 1862 || 160 acres 1 quarter section available to any citizen who would build a 9x 12 structure, live on the property for five years, at only the cost of registration. ||
 * Sand Creek Massacre || A massacre that occurred on November 29, 1864, when a force of the Colorado Territory Militia attacked and disemboweled a settlement of peaceful Arapaho and Cheyenne Indians, killing somewhere between 70-160 Indians. ||
 * Comstock Lode || First big discovery of silver ore in USA. Made public in 1859, prospectors rushed to Cornstock Lode in Nevada, generated huge wealth. Also notable is its improving effect on mining technology. ||
 * Battle of the Little Bighorn || Also known as Custer's Last Stand. Occurred on June 25th and 26th, 1876, near the Little Bighorn River in Montana Territory. George A. Custer's regiment of about 700 men recklessly attacked a preponderant Indian force, thinking it to be much smaller than it turned out to be. Almost 300 men of the 7th were killed by the superior Indian force. It was a bad and shameful defeat that probably could have been prevented with more careful actions on Custer's part. ||
 * Boomtowns || A town that grew/grows rapidly in population and economy, usually due to the discovery of a nearby natural resource (say, gold). ||
 * Ghost Dance ||  ||
 * The Cattle Kingdom ||  ||
 * Battle of Wounded Knee || On Dec 29, 1890, members of the 7th Cavalry Regiment had been escorting a group of Lakota westward to Wounded Knee Creek. In the morning of the 29th, a scuffle broke out as the 7th was disarming the Indians. Anyway, the 7th ended up slaying about 150 men, women, and children Indians, wounding about 50 more. Due to the frenzied nature of the firefight, they also killed a bunch of their own, injuring or killing over 50 men of the 7th Cavalry. ||
 * Chisholm Trail ||  ||
 * Vigilantes ||  ||
 * Range wars ||  ||
 * Dawes Severalty Act || Congress passes in 1887-Gave president the power to divide the previously communal Indian land into individual allotments, an action considered necessary to assimilate them into American society. Was overridden in 1934 by FDR's Indian Recognition Act.. ||
 * Carlisle Indian Industrial School || Pennsylvania ||
 * Assimilation ||  ||
 * Wild West Shows ||  ||
 * Boarding schools || See "Baylor." ||