Settlement
Indian Wars
Vocab
People
The Rail Road
100
Law the set up the settlement of the West.
What is the Homestead Act?
100
Law that set up the reservation system in the US.
What is the Dawes Act?
100
African American cavalrymen.
Who are Buffalo Soldiers?
100
18th President of the United States and hit the final nail on the TCRR at Promontory Point, Utah
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
100
Law that established the construction of the transcontinental railway.
What is the Pacific Railway Act?
200
This is how long someone had to stay on and improve the land they settled under the Homestead Act.
What is five years?
200
Major battle which led to the death of Lt. Col. Custer and all his men.
Battle of Little Bighorn
200
Men who led cattle drives.
Who are the cowboys?
200
A popular officer after the Civil War, but met a tragic end in his "Last Stand" against the Sioux
Who is George Armstrong Custer?
200
Workers were brought in from this Asian nation to work on the rail road.
What is China?
300
This invention closed the open range.
What is barbed wire?
300
This animal represented life to the Plain's Indians.
What is the buffalo?
300
This was the most widely used handgun of the old west.
What is the Colt .45?
300
Created the mail order catalogue.
Who is Richard Sears?
300
The creation of the transcontinental railroad led to the development of four of these in the US.
What are time zones?
400
African-American settlers who moved west were known as
Exodusters
400
Huge massacre of Sioux tribe. Largest mass murder in US history.
What is Wounded Knee?
400
Mass movement of cattle to railways and slaughterhouses led by cowboys.
What are cattle drives?
400
He attended the Carlisle Indian school and later became an Olympic athlete
Who is Jim Thorpe
400
This substance was used to blast through the Sierra Nevada mountains.
What is nitro glycerine?
500
A push factor for people moving from the East to the West
What is over population
500
School established in PA to teach Indian children how to be "Americans".
What is the Carlisle School?
500
Huge massacre of Cheyenne in Eastern Colorado.
What is the Sand Creek Massacre?
500
Abraham Lincoln freed all men, but this man made them equal.
Who is Samuel Colt?
500
The transcontinental railway eventually linked up in this state.
What is Utah?