American History and Culture

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Perception

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An understanding of something

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Homestead Act

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Written in 1862 to help encourage people to settle beyond the Mississippi

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Reservation

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Areas that American Indians were forced on to after being pushed from their homes

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Assimilate

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The process of absorbing one cultural group into another

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Little Bighorn

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Multi-tribal victory that gave Native Americans hope

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Wounded Knee

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Final chapter of the "Indian Wars" which turned into a massacre of Native Americans

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The Golden Spike

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The final spike that completed the Transcontinental Railroad that linked the East and the West.