Authorized the President of the United States to survey Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians.

To adopt the ways of another culture; to fully become part of a different society, country, etc.

An economic environment in which transactions between private parties are free from government restrictions, tariffs, and subsidies, with only enough regulations to protect property rights.

On the morning of December 29, the troops went into the camp to disarm the Lakota. By the time it was over, at least 150 men, women, and children of the Lakota had been killed and 51 wounded.

Granted full U.S. citizenship to America's indigenous peoples, called "Indians" in this Act.

Originally were members of the U.S. 10th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army. This nickname was given to the "Negro Cavalry" by the Native American tribes they fought.

A name given to African Americans who migrated from states along the Mississippi River to Kansas

Of or relating to the country, country people or life, or agriculture.

Played a central part in the nation's "Manifest Destiny" expansion efforts and also herded and rounded up livestock that were transported by rail around the country for sale.

Inexpensive fiction magazines published from 1896 through the 1950s.

Cattle raisers needed vast stretches of land where their herds could graze and they wanted to incur as little expense as possible to use such land.

A trail used in the late 19th century to drive cattle overland from ranches in Texas to Kansas railheads.

Used to construct inexpensive fences and is used atop walls surrounding secured property. Brought an end to open range ranching...

Set of exclusive rights granted by a sovereign state to an inventor

Applies to the complete history of the entire country from 1865 to 1877 following the American Civil War

The moral stance, political philosophy, ideology, or social outlook that emphasizes "the moral worth of the individual".

abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.

An amendment to the U.S. constitution defining national citizenship and forbidding the states to restrict the basic rights of citizens or other persons

Prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude".

It was an informal, unwritten deal, that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election.

According to the American historian Frederick Jackson Turner, the forging of the unique and rugged American identity had to occur precisely at the juncture between the civilization of settlement and the savagery of wilderness.

The state of being free within society from

oppressive restrictions imposed by authority

on one's way of life, behavior, or political views.

A migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to this region of the Yukon in north-western Canada. Gold was discovered here and it triggered a "stampede" of would-be prospectors.

A political philosophy where adherents claim that they side with "the people" against "the elites".