Mining Towns
What are boom towns?
what was the great Plains known as?
The Great Desert
What were most native Americans?
Nomads
Manifest Destiny def?
Manifest Destiny was the belief that the United States was meant to extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
What are cowtowns?
Towns where long cattle drives would stop as a destination.
Henry Comstock who was he?
HE was the man who discovered silver ore?
Why did people start settling?
Because of the cheap land that the railroads were selling land next to the lines
What did the Dakota tribe do?
They agreed to live in the reservation, but most payments never reached them, and they were starving so they launched the first major uprising?
What were Railroads systems?
The railroad system throughout the west allowed for fast transport of both settlers and products throughout the west.
Was cowboy life like the movies?
What does it mean to go bust?
For a boomtown to lose all its growth
What were some difficulties?
Swarms of locust, Sod Houses, Hot Temperatures, Wintertime blizzards and cold temps
who led the Dakota uprising?
Chief Little Crow
Why was one fun reason people came?
For the adventure
When did cattle drives end?
1890
Hydraulic Mining?
Mine cliffs with built up fast water to wash away the rocks
What was the homestead act?
A government program that allowed people to file for a homestead of up to 160 acres for a 10 dollar fee
other tribe in Dakota territory?
Lakota
Why did they come for mining?
As a way to get rich quick for their family
It led to the creation of barbed wire for a more efficient way to keep in cattle and other animals
SLuice boxes?
made to divert the rivers current to collect more gravel for more gold.
What were some homestead requirements?
21 year old, head of the household, had to live there for 6 years before gaining the title.
who led red clouds war?
Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, and Sitting Bull
Another good reason
Open Land and Farming
historical events in the American West, primarily after the Civil War, where cowboys on horseback herded millions of cattle long distances from Texas to railheads in states like Kansas