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What is Sioux?
another term for the Dakota people or their language.
What is Soddy?
an alternative shelter when wood or stone was scarce.
What year did the Spanish bring horses to New Mexico?
What is 1598?
What two companies raced to lay railroad track?
the Central Pacific and Union Pacific.
How were the railroads taking advantage of farmers?
charging excessive prices for shipping and storage.
What is Great Plains?
a high plateau of grasslands that is located in parts of the United States and Canada in North America.
What is Settler?
a person who moves with a group of others to live in a new country area.
What was the result of Custer's Last Stand?
the result was that Colonel Custer and his troops all ended up dead.
What type of farms were created in light of farmers in debt?
Bonanza Farms.
What was the Grange's original purpose?
to pro-vide a social outlet and an educational forum for isolated farm families.
What is Native American?
a member of any of the indigenous people of North, Central, and South America, especially those indigenous to what is now the continental US.
What is Agriculture?
the science or practice of farming, including cultivation of the soil for the growing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide food, wool, and other products.
What is the Treaty of Fort Laramie?
the Sioux agreed to live on a reservation along the Missouri River.
How did new inventions change farming in the west?
these new inventions made farming in the West faster and more efficient.
What caused the panic of 1893?
3 million people became unemployed.
what is the Homestead act?
several laws in the United States by which an applicant could acquire ownership of government land or the public domain, typically called a homestead.
Who is Sitting Bull?
a Hunkpapa Lakota leader who led his people during years of resistance against United States government policies.
What is Farm?
a place where crops are grown or animals raised.
What is 1598?
the year the Spanish bring horses to New Mexico
What is the Dawes Act?
the act allowed the federal government to break up tribal lands.
What was the government policy toward Native American land?
there were treaties made that designated specific boundaries for each Native American tribes land.
What year did congress pass the Homestead Act?
1862
What type of settlers were called Exodusters?
African American who moved from the post- Reconstruction South to Kansas.
What was the Populist Party platform?
the platform of the Democratic Party.
What is the western people?
The Western People is a weekly local newspaper published in Ballina, County Mayo in the Republic of Ireland.