Movement Factors
At first this nickname that they called this area scared people from moving west.
What is the Great American Desert?
The first state to allow women to vote.
What is Wyoming?
The makeup of the people in the west.
What are single young males and diverse cultures?
Most important factor for settlement of the west.
What is the railroad?
Invention other than the RR that changed the open range.
What is barbed wire?
reasons they moved west
What is the RR, the homestead Act and the discovery of gold?
Mining towns went from boom towns to...
What is a ghost town?
This was where the TCRR was completed in 1869.
What is Promontory Point, Utah?
He refused to assimilate and by 1886 he surrendered with only 30 tribe members left.
Who is Geronimo?
First all black army regiment in the west and were given their name by the Cheyenne and Apache.
Who are buffalo soldiers.
160 more acres of land if you grew 40 acres of trees.
What is the Timber Culture Act?
Legislation that gave Indians 160 that would be theirs after 25 years.
What is the Dawes Act?
Gave people 140 acres for a fee of $10; must stay 5 years.
What is the Homestead Act?
Drunk native teens committed a murder and set off the running of what chief and tribe to Canada.
Who are Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce tribe?
Hunted down the Buffalo to help out the railroads by thinning the herd.
Who was Buffalo Bill Cody?
Organization that managed Indian matters.
What is the Bureau of Indian Affairs?
This was used to provide everything for Indians.
What is the buffalo?
Mythical figure who in reality was lonely, few opportunities for advancement and got low pay,
Who is the cowboy?
The buffalo population went from what to what
What is 15 million to a few thousand?
This insect destroyed crops of the homesteaders.
What is the grasshopper?