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Dry farming is best described as this.
What is growing crops that do not need much water?
The part of the buffalo NOT used by Native Americans.
What is nothing?
Farmers working the tough soil of the Plains.
Who are sodbusters?
By 1850, the western boundary of the American frontier had been pushed to the Pacific Ocean by the admission of this state into the Union.
What is California?
Discovery that started the mining boom.
What is the Comstock Lode?
These two characteristics of the Texas longhorn made it significant to the Cattle Kingdom.
What are little need for water and an ability to survive harsh weather?
What is a buffalo?
These two Native Americans lead the forces that defeated Custer and his troops at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
Who are Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse?
During western settlement reservations where set up to provide what for Native Americans?
What is living space?
The driving of this spike connected the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific railroad lines.
What is the golden spike?
The Chisholm Trail was primarily used by this group of people.
Who are cowboys?
This law established private land ownership for Native Americans.
What is the Dawes General Allotment Act?
This group of African American cavalry troops helped force the Native Americans off their land.
Who are Buffalo Soldiers?
Promoted the free and unlimited coinage of silver.
What is the Populist Part?
The Oklahoma land rush signified this end of this.
What is the frontier?
Sudden growth is the characteristic of what type of settlement?
What are boomtowns?
This was the 300 mile march the Navajo were forced on to reach a reservation in New Mexico.
What is the Long Walk?
This democratic candidate favored free coinage but lost the 1896 election.
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
Most southern Plain Indians agreed to live on reservations in this treaty.
What is the Treaty of Medicine Lodge?
The forming of this organization allowed farmers to socialize and be educated.
What is the National Grange?
What is the Pony Express?
Religion movement that predicted the arrival of paradise for Native Americans.
What is the Ghost Dance?
Large group of African Americans who left the South to go to Kansas in 1879.
Who are Exodusters?
The victory of William McKinley in the 1896 election brought an end two these two political groups.
What are the Populist Party and the Farmers' Alliances?
The passing of this act allowed any U.S. citizen (or someone who planned to become a citizen) to receive 160 acres of land.
These types of cowboys from Mexico were so good at their jobs that American cowboys learned from them.
What are Vaqueros?
This led to the Long Walk of 1864.
What is raids by U.S. troops left the Navajo without food and shelter, forcing them to surrender?
This founder of Chico, California fought for women's suffrage (voting rights) and temperance (the banning of alcohol).
Who is Annie Bidwell?
These Acts where passed by the federal government in 1862 and 1864 to help finance construction of the transcontinental railroad.
What are the Pacific Railway Acts?
The 11 million acres of land opened up in the Oklahoma land rush belonged to these two tribes of Native Americans.
Who are the Creek and Seminole?