Red Cloud

Examples of Red Cloud in the following topics:

• The Decimation of the Great Bison Herds and the Fight for the Black Hills

  • The Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, signed with the US by Lakota and Northern Cheyenne leaders following Red Cloud's War, set aside a portion of the Lakota territory as the Great Sioux Reservation.
  • When a commission approached the Red Cloud Agency about the possibility of the Lakota signing away the Black Hills, Colonel John E.
  • In May 1875, Sioux delegations headed by Spotted Tail, Red Cloud, and Lone Horn traveled to Washington, D.C. in an eleventh-hour attempt to persuade President Ulysses S.

• The American Indian Wars

  • Led by resolute, militant leaders such as Red Cloud and Crazy Horse, the Sioux excelled at high-speed mounted warfare.
  • The Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, signed with the United States by Lakota and Northern Cheyenne leaders following Red Cloud's War, set aside a portion of the Lakota territory as the Great Sioux Reservation.
  • In May 1875, Sioux delegations headed by Spotted Tail, Red Cloud, and Lone Horn traveled to Washington, D.C., in an eleventh-hour attempt to persuade President Ulysses S.

• The Human Toll

  • Drought and massive wind storms that threw up giant clouds of dust continued throughout the 1930s, leading to the period being called “the Dirty Thirties.”
  • In 1934, an estimated 75% of the United States felt some effect from the storms, including New England, where red snow fell.
  • As the 1930s progressed, the soil continued to dry, turn to dust and blow eastward and southward in large, dark clouds.
  • At times, these clouds blackened the sky, reaching all the way to East Coast cities such as New York and Washington, D.C.

• Dust Bowl Migrants

  • Thus, during the drought of the 1930s, the soil dried, turned to dust, and blew away eastward and southward in large dark clouds.
  • At times, the clouds blackened the sky, reaching all the way to East Coast cities such as New York and Washington, D.C.

• The Indian Response

  • The Creek War (1813–1814), also known as the Red Stick War and the Creek Civil War, began as a civil war within the Creek (Muscogee) Nation.
  • Red Stick leaders like William Weatherford (Red Eagle), Peter McQueen, and Menawa, were all allies of the British.
  • The Red Sticks aggressively resisted the civilization programs administered by the U.S.
  • The Red Sticks' goal was to strike at the mixed-blood Creek who had taken refuge at the fort.
  • The Red Sticks subsequently attacked other forts in the area, including Fort Sinquefield.

• Red Scare

  • Postwar patriotism and fears of communism after the Russian Revolution produced the Red Scare in the U.S. in 1919-1920.
  • The Red Scare effectively ended in the middle of 1920 after Palmer's predicted May Day uprising passed without incident.
  • Army machine gunner holding off hordes of Reds and Wobblies (Industrial Workers of the World party members).
  • A Red Scare depiction of a "European Anarchist" attempting to destroy the Statue of Liberty.
  • Describe how the Red Scare contributed to anti-labor sentiment, the Palmer Raids, and the Sedition Act of 1918.

• The War in the South

  • The Creek War (1813–1814), also known as the "Red Stick War," began as a civil war within the Creek (Muscogee) nation.
  • Red Stick leaders such as William Weatherford (Red Eagle), Peter McQueen, and Menawa were all allies of the British.
  • The Red Sticks aggressively resisted the civilization programs administered by the U.S.
  • In mid March, he moved against the Red Stick force concentrated on the Tallapoosa at Tohopeka (Horseshoe Bend).
  • With the Red Sticks subdued, Jackson turned his focus on the Gulf Coast region in the War of 1812.

• African and Asian Origins

  • The second route went through the present-day Bab-el-Mandeb Strait on the Red Sea (at that time, with a much lower sea level and narrower extension).
  • These early humans crossed the Red Sea about 70 millennia ago, populating the rest of the world in the process.
  • Today at the Gate of Grief, the Red Sea is about 12 miles (20 kilometers) wide, but 50,000 years ago it was much narrower and sea levels were 70 meters lower.
  • This has been seen as evidence that humans may have crossed the Red Sea in search of food sources on new beaches.
  • There is some evidence that modern humans left Africa at least 125,000 years before present (BP) using two different routes: the Nile Valley heading to the Middle East - at least into modern Israel - and a second route through the present-day Bab-el-Mandeb Strait on the Red Sea

• McCarthyism

  • "McCarthyism" is a term arising from the paranoia of the Second Red Scare in the U.S. from 1950-54, which was fed by Joseph McCarthy, a U.S.
  • Many factors contributed to McCarthyism, some of them extending back to the years of the First Red Scare (1917–20), inspired by Communism's emergence as a recognized political force.
  • It had long been a practice of more conservative politicians to refer to progressive reforms such as child labor laws and women's suffrage as "Communist" or "Red plots."
  • While Communism was expanding across Europe and Asia, the United States entered an era of paranoia known as the Red Scare.
  • McCarthy played on Communist fears in the U.S. during the Second Red Scare.

• The Atomic Bomb