Plains Indians
The Plains Indians continually moved around the Great Plains. What is this lifestyle called?
Nomadic
The American belief that it was their God-given duty to settle across the whole of the American continent was known as...
Manifest Destiny
Range wars were major conflicts for the control of land and resources in the West. What war of 1892 is the best known for this?
The Johnson County War.
The first cow town.
Acres were given to homesteaders through the Homestead Act but how many.
160
Survival on the great plains was depended upon them hunting which animal?
Buffalo
The Transcontinental Railroad completed in this year.
1869
The Cheyenne on the Sand Creek reservation were starving after crop failures. Which Chief led an attack on wagon trains, stealing food but not harming the white settlers?
Black Kettle
Charles and Oliver realized there was another market for Texan cattle therefore created what Trail?
Goodnight-Loving
What invention allowed homesteaders to access water more easily?
The Plains Indians believed they could contact the spirit world by doing what?
Performing dances and ceremonies
The Discovery of Gold in California led to an influx of migrants from American, Europe and Asian this caused ....
Lawlessness
Plains Indians believed that all land was sacred and does not belong to one person. White Americans believed in Manifest Destiny. The White Americans in search for Gold starting what process which caused conflict with the Plains Indians.
Mining
John Iliff created the first _____ ______ seeing opportunities to raise cattle and began ranching near Denver in 1866.
Open Range
Over ___ million acres of federal land was homesteaded by 1876.
6 million
The Indian Appropriations Act 1851 aim was to....
Protect Plains Indians from western expansion.
There was massive federal financial support for the First transcontinental railroad. How much money was given in loans?
$61 million
Agents that ran reservations were frequently corrupt and cheated the traibes out of their annuities. Who did the agents work for?
The Bureau of Indian Affairs.
On trails they worked seasonally they rounded up cattle, branded cattle and drove cattle hundreds of miles. They looked out for sick and injured cattle and slept in the open air.
On ranches they worked all year round, slept in bunkhouses and struggled to adapt to the ranching lifestyle.
Cowboys.
The Mormons reach salt lake city to be free from persecution. Why did Bringham Young chose this location?
It was out of jurisdiction for America's Law Enforcement, therefore they could not be persecuted.
The boundary between the United states and the Indian Territory which all Plains Indians had to move to was called?
The Permanent Indian Frontier
It helped develop cow towns by transporting cattle to the cities of the East for processing.
One condition of the Fort Laramie Treaty was to supply food and resources to the Plains Indians on reservations. When they failed to do this who took out a revenge attack on the American Government in 1862?
Little Crow
What tactics were ranchers using to prevent homesteaders from taking up claims to 'their' public land.
Blocking
Which conflict that began in 1861 temporarily slowed the number of people moving west?
American Civil War