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A massacre of Lakota Indians in South Dakota by the U.S. Cavalry. Over 300 men, women, and children were killed. This massacre ended armed resistance from the Sioux Indians.
a) Wounded Knee
b) Little Bighorn
c) Promontory Point
d) Buffalo Soldier

A name given by Native Americans to African Americans serving in the U.S. Army in the west
a) Buffalo Soldiers
b) Sitting Bull
c) Buffalo Warriors
d) Buffalo Wings

Chief of the Sioux Indian Tribe. He led the Sioux in the Battle of Little Bighorn against Colonel George Custer of the U.S. Cavalry.
a) Sitting Bull
b) Chief Joseph
c) Geronimo
d) Custer

The first railroad that spanned from the east coast to the west coast--built in the 1860’s
a) Transcontinental Railroad
b) Promontory Point
c) Sacramento
d) Central Pacific

Chief of the Nez Perce Indians. “I will fight no more forever.”
a) Chief Joseph
b) Sitting Bull
c) Geronimo
d) George Custer

Leader of the Apaches. He led a major resistance movement against the government and tried to keep his people from being put on reservations.
a) Geronimo
b) Sitting Bull
c) Chief Joseph
d) George Custer

Land set aside by the U.S. government for Native American tribes
a) Reservation
b) Boomtown
c) Frontier
d) Great Plains

Land to settle on and farm
a) Homestead
b) Homestead Act
c) Battle at Little Bighorn
d) Massacre at Wounded Knee

Federal law that gave 160 acres of land to someone willing to improve the land for 5 years
a) Homestead Act
b) Sodbuster
c) Homestead
d) Frontier

Unsettled or sparsely settled area occupied largely by Native Americans
a) Frontier
b) Reservation
c) Boomtown
d) Great Plains

A farmer on the frontier
a) Sodbuster
b) Homestead Act
c) Little Bighorn
d) Homestead

A Battle between the Sioux (Sitting Bull Crazy Horse) and the U.S. Cavalry (Custer) over westward expansion into Sioux territory. The Sioux won.
a) Little Bighorn
b) Sodbuster
c) Wounded Knee
d) Transcontinental Railroad

A town that has a sudden burst of economic or population growth
a) Boomtown
b) Reservation
c) Great Plains
d) Frontier

The area from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains (mostly flat land)
a) Great Plains
b) Reservation
c) Boomtown
d) Frontier

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