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Settling the West Chapter 13

First Wave of Settlers

Comstock Lode (Henry Lied) Virginia City/Boomtown http://www. c-span

Placer/Quartz Mining

Vigilance Committees

Open Range

Chisholm Trail

Barbed Wire

Stephen Long/Great Plains/Great American Desert

Railroads/Government

Homestead Act (1862)

Dry Farming http://vimeo.com/8962202 http://www.history.com/videos/black- blizzard#black-blizzard

Wheat Belt

Bonanza Farms http://www. ndstudies

Steel Plows, Seed drills, Reapers, and Threshing Machines

Continued

Hardships on the Great Plains

Plains Indians

White Encroachment/Native American land

Annuities/Dakota Sioux

Sioux Hunting grounds

Map Sand Creek

Sand Creek Massacre

Silas Soule

Indian Peace Commission

George A. Custer

Nomads

Chief Joseph/Nez Perce http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j9jBhDN cmQ

Ghost Dance

Assimilate

Dawes Act

Wounded Knee Creek December 29, 1890

Plains Indians Doomed

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