Section 1 Vocab
Section 2 Vocab
Section 3 Vocab
Facts 1
Facts 2
100
Quickly growing towns.
What is a boomtown.
100
Who is the man who explored the Great Plains with his army in 1819?
Who is Major Stephen Long.
100
A person who continually moves from place to place following their main food source.
What is a nomads.
100
Who was the founder of the 6 Mile Canyon?
Who is Henry Comstock.
100
What destroyed crops and made soil become dust in the 1880's?
What is a drought.
200
Self appointed volunteers who would track down and punish law breakers.
What is Vigilance Committee.
200
Act that the government passe din the year 1862 that encouraged people to settle the Great Plains
What is The Homestead Act.
200
Annual payment from the government to Native Americans on reservations.
What is annuities.
200
What was the Native Americans main food source.
What is the buffalo.
200
What was the major crop grown on the Great Plains?
What is wheat.
300
Method of mining by which water is sprayed at a very high pressure.
What is hydraulic mining?
300
A tract of public land that is available for settlement.
What is a homestead.
300
Be absorbed into American society as landowners and citizens.
What is assimilate.
300
How many different mining techniques where there?
What is 2.
300
How much did it cost to file for for a homestead?
What is $12.
400
A vast area of grassland that the federal government owned.
What is open range.
400
Method of farming where you plant seeds deep in the ground where there is enough moisture for the plant to grow.
What is dry farming.
400
Someone who refused to be moved to smaller reservations.
Who is Chief Joseph.
400
What kind of cattle was common on the open range?
What is Longhorns.
400
What years did Red Clouds War last?
What is 1866-1868.
500
Driving cattle long distances to a railroad depot for fast transport and great profit.
What is a long drive.
500
Area of the Great Plains that began at eastern edge of the Great Plains
What is the Wheat Belt.
500
Who was in charge of the Seventh Calvary?
Who is George A. Custer.
500
What year was the large blizzard that killed the majority of the cattle on the plains?
What is 1886-1887.
500
What was the date when the government open one of the last large territories for settlement?
What is April, 22 1889.
M
e
n
u