The Civil War & Reconstruction
Name of the Civil War battle, where around 51,000 soldiers died, being the turning point for the Union army in the East
Gettysburg
Name of the quick growing towns that formed as people moved out West during the gold rush
Boomtowns
With this Act, a person could claim up to 160 acres of land and receive a title to it after living there for five years
The Homestead Act
Many Native Americans on the Great Plains were nomads who roamed the land following their main source of food, what is that source of food
Buffalo
A piece of U.S. public land acquired by living on it and cultivating it
Homestead
An issue made by President Lincoln, a decree freeing all enslaved persons in states still in rebellion after January 1st, 1863
The Emancipation Proclamation
The Texas Longhorn
This type of farming is a way in which seeds are planted deep into the ground where there is some moisture
Dry Farming
Native American forces rapidly defeated Custer and his more then 200 soldiers at this battle
Battle of Little Bighorn
To absorb a group into the culture of another population
Assimilate
Name of famous Union general who became President of the United States in 1868
Ulysses S. Grant
Method of mining by which water is sprayed at very high pressure against a hill or mountain to expose the minerals beneath the surface
Hydraulic Mining
This country was the world's leading exporter of wheat in the 1880's
United States
This Native American Chief was shot and killed while his supporters tried to stop his arrest at Wounded Knee
Sitting Bull
Vast area of grassland owned by the federal government
Open Range
A series of laws passed by Southern state legislatures that limited the rights of African Americans
Black Codes
What four mineral discoveries attracted prospectors and settlers to the boomtowns of the American West
(Daily Double)
Silver, Gold, Copper, and Lead
Name 1 technological innovation that contributed to farming on the Great Plains
Steel Plows, Threshing Machines, Seed Drills, Reapers
This brutal two-day battle saw the loss of lives of fourteen U.S. soldiers and between 69-600 Native American warriors, women, and children
Sand Creek Massacre
Southern supporters of Reconstruction, an old Scots-Irish term for weak, underfed, worthless animals
Scalawags
Amendment that granted citizenship to all persons, born or naturalized, in the United States, declaring that no state could deprive any person of life, liberty, or property "without due process of law"
The Fourteenth Amendment
Name 3 states where mining contributed to population growth
California, Nevada, Arizona, Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota
A large, highly profitable wheat farm
Bonanza Farm
The Citizenship Act
A name given to a Great Plains farmer
Sodbuster