Native Americans
Chief of the Dakota in Minnesota during the Dakota Uprising.
Congressional Act that broke the Western Frontier into 160 acre claims.
What is the Homestead Act?
Cattle of choice on the open range.
What is Texas Longhorn?
The first major Indian War. Happened in 1862.
A popular belief that has grown up around someone or something.
What is a myth?
One of three major Lakota chiefs. Has a war named after him.
Who is Red Cloud?
Daily Double!!
The last state to be opened for homesteading. Let the wind come sweeping down the plains!
This cheap fencing material was used to break up the open range.
What is barbed wire?
Name of the Congressional committee that was tasked to make peace with the Native Americans.
What is the Indian Peace Committee?
The length of time a homesteader had to live on their claim in order to "prove" it.
What is five years?
He fled to Canada after the Battle of Little Bighorn. Was considered a chief but saw himself a medicine man instead.
Who is Sitting Bull?
Responsible for bringing supplies to the homesteaders. Also known as the "iron horse."
What is the railroad?
The final resting place of Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, and Seth Bullock. Also the most famous boomtown in South Dakota.
What is Deadwood?
The battle that saw the death of George A. Custer and the 7th Cavalry. Also known as the Battle of Greasy Grass.
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
The 1851 treaty that established reservations in Minnesota.
What is the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux?
One of three major Lakota chiefs. Was the one who lead Fetterman in to an ambush starting Red Cloud's War.
Who is Crazy Horse?
Soil that is held tightly together by the roots of prairie grass. Also a great building material.
What is sod?
First tactic used by prospectors in the West.
What is panning?
An attack on Native Americans by the Colorado Volunteers while the Natives were trying to surrender. This took place near Ft. Lyon Colorado.
What is the Sand Creek Massacre?
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He had a vision that started the Ghost Dance movement.
Who is Wovoka?
He designed a new plow that was effective with cutting through the prairie sod.
The local law enforcement in boomtowns.
What are vigilance committees?
The last violent engagement between the US Army and the Lakota.
What is the Tragedy at Wounded Knee?
A congressional act that broke up reservation land into allotments. This led to the selling of reservation land to non-Natives.
What is the Dawes Act?