Plains Indians
The act of Plains Indians continually moved around the Great Plains.
What is Nomadic Lifestyle?
The American belief that it was their God-given duty to settle across the whole of the American continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
The 1892 war born from conflicts surrounding the control of land and resources in the west.
What is the Johnson County War?
The first cow town.
Acres were given to homesteaders through the Homestead Act but how many.
160
The animal that plains Indians depended on for their survival.
What are Buffalo?
The year the Transcontinental Railroad was completed
What was in 1869?
The Cheyenne Chief from sand creek reservation who led an attack on wagon trails after his people were starving from crop failure.
Who is Black Kettle?
Charles and Oliver realized there was another market for Texan cattle therefore created what Trail?
Goodnight-Loving
What invention allowed homesteaders to access water more easily?
The way in which plains Indians believed they could contact the spirits.
What are ceremonies and dances?
The discovery of this led to an influx of migrants and lawlessness.
What is the Discovery of Gold?
The white settlers started this process in search for gold which put them in conflict with Plains Indians.
What is Mining?
John Iliff created the first _____ ______ seeing opportunities to raise cattle and began ranching near Denver in 1866.
Open Range
Over ___ million acres of federal land was homesteaded by 1876.
6 million
The act that protected Plains Indians from western expansion.
What is The Indian Appropriations Act 1851?
The amount given in loans to support the first transcontinental railroad.
What was $61 million?
The name of the agency that ran reservations, were frequently corrupt and cheated tribes out of their annuities.
what is the Bureau of Indian Affairs?
On trails they worked seasonally they rounded up cattle, branded cattle and drove cattle hundreds of miles. They looked out for sick and injured cattle and slept in the open air.
On ranches they worked all year round, slept in bunkhouses and struggled to adapt to the ranching lifestyle.
Cowboys.
The Mormons reach salt lake city to be free from persecution. Why did Bringham Young chose this location?
It was out of jurisdiction for America's Law Enforcement, therefore they could not be persecuted.
The boundary between the United states and the Indian Territory which all Plains Indians had to.
What is he Permanent Indian Frontier?
As part of the reconstruction that followed the Civil War, railroads were developed across America. Name an impact that railroads had on the development of the cattle industry.
It helped develop cow towns
Increased profit margins
One condition of the Fort Laramie Treaty was to supply food and resources to the Plains Indians on reservations. When they failed to do this who took out a revenge attack on the American Government in 1862?
Little Crow
What tactics were ranchers using to prevent homesteaders from taking up claims to 'their' public land.
Blocking
Which conflict that began in 1861 temporarily slowed the number of people moving west?
American Civil War