Section 1
What was the name given by Native Americans to Black calvary soldiers who were a part of the U.S. Army out west?
Buffalo Soldiers
What new invention in the west connected the west and east coast of the United States?
Transcontinental Railroad
What American showman created a namesake "Wild west" show that traveled the country and the world?
Buffalo Bill
What was the name of the Large Native American tribe living in the Great Plains that comprised smaller tribes like the Lakota and Dakota?
What animals became widely hunted and came close to extinction in the West?
Buffalo and Bison
What was the name of the act in which settlers could lay claim to federal lands out west as long as they work to improve the land?
Homestead Act
What act beginning in 1882 banned all immigration from a certain country all together?
Chinese Exclusion Act
San Francisco experienced a devastating earthquake in what year, in which over half of the city was destroyed.
1906
Name two legendary outlaws of the wild west who became infamous for many robberies and heists across the west?
Jesse James
Billy the Kid
Butch Cassidy
In the Wild West Show, William Cody brought over Aboriginals, who were indigenous people of what country?
Australia
What was the name of the religious spiritual movement that swept across the great plains on Native American Reservations?
Ghost Dance
What were the name of travel routes that brought livestock to the north to be shipped to cities like Chicago?
Cattle Trails
Give two major reasons as to why the Wild West era ended.
Railroads expanded across the west
Mining towns became abandoned
All territories in the west became states by 1912
By 1900, there were approximately how many miles of railroad in the United States?
190,000
During what incident in South Dakota did the U.S. Army kill over 200 Lakota Native Americans?
Wounded Knee Massacre
How many acres of land were settlers out west given according to the act which promoted travel out west?
160 Acres
During what scandal did a fake railroad company upcharge costs to building railroads?
Credit Mobilier Scandal
What female sharpshooter became a national sensation during the wild west show and became one of the highest paid performers in America?
Annie Oakley
Sitting Bull and what other Lakota leader won over the U.S. Army at the Battle of the Little Bighorn?
Crazy Horse
What President banned all immigration from an Asian country in 1882?
Chester Arthur
During the Battle of the Little Bighorn, what U.S. general and his army were defeated by the Lakota Native Americans?
George Custer
What St. Louis scandal indicted many government officials for diverting tax revenues away from distillers?
Whisky Ring Scandal
Nevada
Colorado
Utah
Wyoming
What was one of the last tribes to be relocated onto a reservation after they were defeated by the U.S. Army in Idaho and Eastern Washington and Oregon?
Nez Perce
What person rounded up the Navajo population and moved them onto reservation in Arizona?
Kit Carson