Module 2 - Academic Vocab Flashcards

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Great Plains

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The grassland region of the United States

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Treaty of Fort Laramie

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1868 treaty in which the Sioux agreed to live on a reservation

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Sitting Bull

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Leader of Hunkpapa Sioux

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George A. Custer

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Colonel in U.S. Cavalry

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Assimilation

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Name of plan to make Native Americans part of white culture

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Dawes Act

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Law that broke up Native American reservations

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Battle of Wounded Knee

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U.S. massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota

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Comstock Lode

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Mine in present-day Nevada where prospectors found silver

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Placer mining

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Method of extracting gold from loose sand and gravel by panning or sluicing

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Hydraulic mining

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Method of extracting gold by using water under high pressure to blast away dirt and expose minerals