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Frontier
Question | Answer |
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Wrote about broken treaties between the United States and Native Americans | Helen Hunt Jackson |
Sioux chief who led the Sioux in the battles of 1876 and who helped lead the forces at Little Big Horn | Sitting Bull |
Inspired the Ghost Dance movement which believed that the world would soon end and living and dead Indians would unite and inherit the earth | Wovoka |
Led a column of soldiers into the Little Bighorn Valley | George A. Custer |
Marketed the first barbed wire | Joseph Glidden |
Propounded a thesis that the frontier was responsible for American-style democracy and also provided a safety valve for the nations discontented | Frederick Jackson Turner |
Led troops who massacred 450 Cheyennes at Sand Creek in Colorado | Colonel Chivington |
Environmentalist who helped found the Sierra Club | John Muir |
Developed a plow that mechanized turning over prairie soil | John Deere |
Developed a reaper that helped speed up grain harvesting | Cyrus McCormick |
Leader of the Nez Perces during the hostilities between the tribe and the US Army in 1877 | Chief Joseph |