Vocabulary
The Great Plains are...
The grassland extending through the west-central portion of the United States.
In 70 (from 1800-1870) years how much of the cow population disappeared.
64,999,000 buffalos disappeared.
What battle ended the Indian Wars?
Battle of Wounded Knee.
How long did the Indian Wars last?
Between 1866 and 1890.
What tribe was talked about the most in this chapter?
The Sioux.
Exodusters are...
African Americans who moved from the post-Reconstruction South to Kansas.
What could be made of buffalo bones?
Bowls, spoon, scrapers, tool handles, and hoe blades.
What was the Homestead Act?
An offering 160 acres of land free to any citizen or intended citizen who was head of the household.
Who is Zitkala-Sˇa?
A Native American girl who grew up in the great plains and went through the changes forced apon them by white settlers.
What animal was hunted the most by settlers?
Buffalo.
The bonanza farms were...
enormous single-crop spreads of 15,000–50,000 acres.
The skull of the buffalo was considered sacred and was used in many...
Native American rituals.
What was the Morrill Act?
It gave federal land to the states to help finance agricultural colleges, and the Hatch Act of 1887 established agricultural experiment stations to inform farmers of new developments.
Who is sitting bull?
He was a warrior, spiritual leader. Leader of the Hunkpapa Sioux.
Cities such as Virginia City, Nevada, and Helena, Montana, originated as...
mining camps.
Dawes act was passed in...
1887
Buffalo hooves were ground up to make...
Glue.
What was the Chisholm Trail?
the major cattle route from San Antonio, Texas, through Oklahoma to Kansas.
The Treaty of Fort Laramie was...
A document in which the Sioux agreed to live on a reservation along the Missouri River, was forced on the leaders of the Sioux in 1868.
In the United States, the great plains take about _____ of the room there. (hint use a fraction such as 2/3 *its not two thirds*)
1/4 of the land is the great plains.
Native Americans are...
A member of any of the indigenous peoples of North, Central, and South America, especially those indigenous to what is now the continental US.
Buffalo hides were used as...
Native American clothing, teepees, and arrow shields.
Who is George A. Custer?
A Colonel.
How much of the land that was once owned Native Americans was left by 2000? Most, half, or a little.
A little amount of land was left owned by native Americans.
Who was originally there living in the great plains? (white settlers or Native Americans)
Native Americans.