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Year that Spanish brought horses to New Mexico.
What is 1598?
These helped Native Americans travel further.
What are horses?
The leader of the Hunkpapa Sioux tribe.
Who is Sitting Bull?
The grassland extending through the west-central portion of the U.S.
What is the Great Plains?
This war occurred in 1864 between the Cheyenne and U.S. General Curtis.
What is the Massacre at Sand Creek?
By the middle of this century, most tribes on the Great Plains left their farms to roam and hunt buffalo.
What is the 1700s or 18th century?
These things helped Native Americans hunt more efficiently.
What are guns?
This colonel reported that the Black Hills had a lot of gold.
Who is Colonel George A. Custer?
This trail ran directly through Sioux hunting grounds in the Big Horn Mountains.
In this battle Colonel Custer rounded up 350 starving and freezing Sioux and demanded their weapons.
What is the Battle of Wounded Knee?
In 1887, Congress passed this act to "Americanize" Native Americans.
What is the Dawes Act?
Peoples of the Plains traded and produced these.
Buffalo Bill's real name.
What is William F. Cody?
This trail was a major cattle route from San Antonio through Oklahoma to Kansas.
What is Chisholm Trail?
Native Americans called this battle, The Battle of 100 Slain
In 1862, Congress passed this act offering free land to anyone.
What is the Homestead Act?
This food was made by buffalo meat jerky mixed with berries and fat.
What is pemmican?
This person invented barbed wire.
Who is Joseph F. Glidden?
In 1872, the government created this national park.
What is Yellowstone National Park?
Farmers paid outrageously high prices to transport grain on this mass transit.
What is the railroad?
In 1862, the government passed this act that gave federal land to the states to finance agricultural colleges.
What is Morrill Act?
Men or women who showed sensitivity to spirits.
What are medicine men or women or shamans?
This person started the Patrons of Husbandry?
Who is Oliver Hudson Kelley?
What is Abilene?
In this conflict, over 15,000 businesses and 500 banks collapsed.
What is the panic of 1893?