The Great Plains
Name three states that are in the Great Plains region
N/S Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, parts of Colorado, Wyoming, Montana
5. What technology greatly impacted Westward Expansion by helping transportation and trade happen more quickly? This also brought about the end of the cowboy era.
Railroads
What immigrant group built the majority of the Transcontinental Railroad?
Chinese
The reduction of what animal greatly impacted Native Americans in the west?
Buffalo/Bison
Many of the plains wars occurred because Native Americans resisted moving to these pieces of land (given to them by the US Government)
Reservations
What are the five climate and geography features of the Great Plains? (name at least 3)
Flatlands, few trees, low rainfall, dust storms, wind erosion
How did Americans' perception of the west change after the Civil War?
What was the westernmost city on the Transcontinental Railroad?
San Francisco
What did cowboys actually do?
Move herds of cattle around the Great Plains
Who was the US general who lost the battle of Little Bighorn
General Custer
What are some of the technological innovations that made living in the Great Plains easier? Name at least 4
Barbed wire, steel plow, dry farming, sod houses, beef cattle raising, wheat farming, water pumping windmills, railroads
What was the name given to formerly enslaved people who moved west?
Exodusters
Throughout the 1800s, anti-Chinese sentiment spread throughout the west, culminating in a violent mob attacking Chinese community members on November 3, 1885. What was this called?
What is the term for when groups are encouraged or forced to adopt the culture, values, and social behaviors of the majority cultural group?
Assimilation
Who was the last Native American to surrender to US officials after the Apache Wars?
Geronimo
What was the main crop grown in the Great Plains?
Wheat
List two pull factors that brought people West (be specific)
What two actions did the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 take?
Restricted immigration from China; refused citizenship to Chinese immigrants already in the US
What was the name of the 1887 government act that divided Indian land into plots in an attempt to remove Native peoples from tribes and Americanize them?
Dawes Act
What was the name of the last conflict of the Indian Wars, which occurred when the US army believed that the Ghost Dance was a war dance?
Wounded Knee Massacre
Name two of the Native American tribes who lived on the Great Plains
Lakota Sioux, Dakota, Comanche, Cheyenne, Creek, Apache, Nez Perce, Navajo, Arapaho, Blackfoot, Crow (may accept others)
How much land did the US government offer to settlers in the Homestead Act?
160 Acres
What were the two companies that built the transcontinental railroad? (name at least one of two)
Union Pacific, Central Pacific
What Spanish word is the origin of the term "cowboy"
Vaquero
Chief Joseph was the leader of which Native American rebellion?
The Nez Perce War