Indian Nations
The most powerful of the Plains Indian nations since the days of Lewis and Clark
Who are the Sioux (Lakota)?
Year in which the Cailfornia Gold Rush began, which gave immigrants to California their nickname
What is 1849?
Ethnicity of a majority of cowboys
What is non-white?
The invention which enabled messages to be sent long distances across the west instantly
What is the telegraph?
This horseback postal service lasted only a year but made a huge contribution to the romantic image of the west
What is the Pony Express?
Small pieces of land set aside for Indian nations who had lost their original homelands
What are reservations?
The main drawback of living in a mining town, which led to an extremely high murder rate
What is lawlessness?
Ethnicity of many of the non-European immigrants who came to California during the Gold Rush
What is Chinese?
The railroad route which enabled rail travel from east to west in a short time
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
The style of art that featured big, dramatic mountain ranges and forests, making the west look exciting
What is landscape painting?
Conflict between Indian nations and government troops was often based on Indian resistance to this
What is moving to reservations?
The invention which enabled western farm families to break up very tough prairie soil
What is the steel plow?
Ethnicity of many of those who fled the south for the west
What is Black?
A major source of white immigrants to the west was defeated veterans of this conflict
What is the Civil War?
Philosophy of Frederick Jackson Turner, which said that the American character was based on the frontier
What is the frontier thesis?
Last survivor of the Yahi Indian nation, who became a circus attraction after emerging from the forest in California in 1911
Who is Ishi?
Building material used by western farm families for houses when no wood was available
What is sod?
Given the right to vote in western states almost 40 years before the rest of the country
What are women?
Animal which provided the main food source of Plains Indian nations before being hunted to near extinction by whites
What is buffalo?
Organizer of a famous traveling circus that presented a Hollywood version of the old west to audiences in the east
Who is Buffalo Bill Cody?
Location of one of the last, and worst, massacres of the Indian wars, in 1890
What is Wounded Knee?
The primary occupation of cowboys, consisting of transporting herds of cattle from ranches in Texas to railroads in Kansas
What are cattle drives?
Term for freed slaves who joined the Army and went west to fight the Plains Indians
What are Buffalo Soldiers?
Large group of immigrants who settled in Utah seeking religious freedom
Who are the Mormons?
A young woman who became famous as a trick rifle shot in an old west show
Who is Annie Oakley?