People
Battles
Terms
Acts
Potpourri
100
Led the 7th Cavalry
Who is George A. Custer
100
Battle where over 150 Native American women and children were killed at dawn on November 29, 1864
What is the Sand Creek Massacre
100
The government's policy of having the Indians give up their culture and way of life so that they could live alongside white settlers.
What is Assimilation
100
Act that tried to "Americanize" the Native Americans
What is the Dawes Act
100

Provide an example of a modern day "Populist"

Who is Obama, Trump, Roosevelt...

200
Great War Chief of the Sioux. Was never photographed
Who is Crazy Horse
200
Battle where 80 soldiers were killed on the Bozeman Trail by the Sioux chief Red Cloud
What is the Fetterman Massacre
200
A monetary system backed by the Populist that would use both silver and gold to back paper currency
What is Bimetallism
200
Act that gave 160 acres to a family for free, with some strings attached
What is The Homestead Act
200
Was the populist candidate for President in 1896. Was defeated by William Mckinley
Who is William Jennings Bryan
300

Inventor of the Steel Plow 

John Deere

300
Battle where the entire 7th Cavalry is wiped out by Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, and Gall
What is Custer's Last Stand
300
All land west of the Mississippi that was set aside for an Indian Reservation before white settlers started moving there.
What is The Great American Reservation
300
Act that gave the states Federal land to be used as colleges for Agricultural Education
What is The Morrill Act
300
Ritual that Native Americans believed would bring back the Buffalo and their traditional way of life
What is the Ghost Dance
400

Great Medicine Man and leader of the Sioux Indians. Accidently killed during a skirmish on a reservation.

Who is Sitting Bull

400
Battle where 300 unarmed Native Americans were slaughtered by the 7th Cavalry
What is the Battle of Wounded Knee
400

Settlers built these homes out of mud. 

What is a Soddy 

400
Most of the land set aside by this act was never settled by the people who claimed it.
What is The Homestead Act
400

This treaty helped stop fighting in Wyoming for a short period of time. The Sioux agree to live on reservations.

What is The Treaty of Fort Laramie

500
Invented a Machine that made harvesting wheat easier for farmers.
Who is Cyrus McCormick
500
This is the other name for Custer's Last Stand
What is The Battle of Little Bighorn
500
Black settlers who moved from the South to Kansas during the time of Reconstruction following the Civil War
Who are exodusters
500

This Act led to the founding of such colleges as Iowa State University, Texas A&M

What is The Morrill Act

500
The Native Americans used this animal for everything. Food, Fuel, Shelter, and Clothes
What is the Buffalo
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