Railroads & Cattle Trails
Farming
Native American Affairs
People & Places
Other
100
Sacramento California
Where did the Central Pacific Railroad begin to build eastward?
100
Act that encouraged Native Americans to be farmers by dividing up tribal lands and giving it to individual families; it worked poorly and they lost more than half of their land.
What is the Dawes Act?
100
Land set aside for Native Americans to live on.
What are reservations?
100
Mexican cowhand
What is a vaquero?
100
Source of gold and silver in Nevada?
What is the Comstock Lode?
200
Gave railroad companies subsidies in the form of land grants and financial aid.
Who was the federal government?
200
Two goals of the National Grange?
What is boosting farm profits & reducing shipping rates that railroads charged?
200
Native Americans hope to gain in return for staying in one place. (name at least three of the 5 listed in the book)
What was money, animals, farming tools, other goods, but most importantly that the lands reserved for them would be theirs FOREVER without disturbance?
200
Wrote a "Century of Dishonor" in hopes of shedding light on the treatment of Native Americans and urged the government to stop its policy of " cheating, robbing, [and] breaking promises."
Who is Helen Hunt Jackson?
200
Common trait among many miners, railroad workers, and cowhands.
What is the high volume of immigrant workers?
300
Significance of the points where the Goodnight-Loving Trail, Chisholm Trail, Shawnee Trail, and other cattle trails ended.
What is that they all ended at railroads in order to ship cattle east?
300
The Farmer's Alliance, National Grange, and Populist Party all had this in common.
What is trying to help farmers by pushing for higher prices and other economic reforms?
300
The Ghost Dance religion's end was marked by this battle.
What was the battle of Wounded Knee?
300
Leader of the Nez Perce tribe who fled with his people north to Canada while the army pursued them.
Who was Chief Joseph?
300
Two inventions that helped farmers to settle on the Plains?
What is the mechanical reaper, barbed wired, or steel plow?
400
City & state where the Union Pacific Railroad began building westward from.
What is Omaha, Nebraska?
400
The incentive of the Homestead Act.
What was getting free land in return for working it for five years?
400
Was blamed for spreading the "Ghost Dance" among the Lakota and was shot and killed in a struggle when the police tried to arrest him.
Who was Sitting Bull?
400
Led a band of Apache warriors and waged war against the US for nearly ten years prior to being captured.
Who was Geronimo?
400
Abilene is an example of:
What is a cow town?
500
Name of the place where the golden spike was hammered in to join the Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads--creating the first transcontinental railroad.
What is Promontory Point Utah?
500
The names "Sooners" and "Boomers" were given to people during the final big rush for land in what state.
What is Oklahoma?
500
**Explain how the settling of the West by whites affected Native American life**
1.) Destruction of buffalo meant loss of food, clothing, & shelter. 2.) Forcing Native Americans to live on reservations took power away from their leaders by giving power to federally appointed government agents who believed they should give up their old ways. 3.) Tried to "Americanize" them.
500
Name of the battle where Colonel George Armstrong Custer led a surprise attack on an Indian encampment, only to be slaughtered along with 225 of his men.
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
500
**Describe the difficulties that faced miners during the gold and silver booms in the West**
At first they had to live in tent cities until the town sprang up; some boom towns went bust, so they had to move on to the next strike; foreign miners were often treated unfairly, few miners got rich quickly, had to turn to vigilantes for justice to be served.
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