Vocab 3

3. On December 29, 1890, in one of the final chapters of America's long Indian wars, the U.S Cavalry kills 146 Sioux at Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota
6. The process of taking in and fully understanding information or ideas
10. 1,911-mile continuous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869
11. acceleration the settlement of the western territory by granting adult heads of families 160 acres of surveyed public land for a minimal filing fee
12. roughly 2,000-mile route from independence, Missouri to Oregon City, Oregon
14. authorized the federal government to break up tribal lands by partitioning them into individual plots.
15. Town or city
16. A battle in Montana near the Little Bighorn river between U.S cavalry under Custer and several groups of Native Americans (1876)
17. a Teton Dakota Native American chief who united the Sioux tribes of the American Great Plains against the white settles taking their tribal land

1. Chief of Oregon's Nez Perce Indians who led his people in the 1870s on a desperate attempt to reach Canada
2. Something typically a process or device, that has been invented
4. the discovery of significant gold deposits near Sacramento in 1848. A rapid influx of fortune seekers in California
5. land that is set aside for Native Americans by the U.S government
7. the surface of the ground, with the grass growing on it
8. in, relating to, or characteristic of the countryside rather than the town
9. An apache leader who continued the tradition of the Apaches resisting white colonization
13. When someone or something becomes better suited to its environment.