This Act allowed "any citizen of intended citizen to select any surveyed land up to 160 acres and to gain title to it" after living on the land and farming it for five years
What is the Homestead Act
100
This is the name given to the time when prospectors discovered precious metals in Alaska in 1896, and thousands of potential miners hurried there to make their fortunes.
What is the Klondike Gold Rush?
100
Basques, originally from Spain, immigrated to the United States to do this, especially in California.
What is herd sheep?
100
This is a Pauite Indian who began a religious movement known as the Ghost Dance.
Who is Wavoka?
100
This was when John M. Chivington and 700 volunteers murdered approximately 200 American Indians camping in Colorado Territory.
What is the Sand Creek Massacre?
200
This Act granted land to railroad companies in order to build a transcontinental railroad.
What is the Pacific Railway Act?
200
This is one of the world's richest silver veins.
What is the Comstock Lode?
200
This author wrote novels about ordinary people on the Great Plains.
Who is Willa Cather?
200
This is the Native American leader who was killed leading up to the Massacre at Wounded Knee.
Who is Sitting Bull?
200
This was a fight between an army of Sioux and other American Indian groups led by Sitting Bull and the US Army's 7th Cavalry led by General George Armstrong Custer.
What is Battle of the Little Bighorn?
300
This Act required states to build agricultural and engineering colleges and universities.
What is the Morrill Act?
300
This mining technique used water to expose minerals beneath the earth.
What is hydraullic mining?
300
This was the name given to African Americans who moved to the Great Plains in order to escape violence in the South.
What is an Exoduster?
300
This person led the last battle against the US Army in resistance to the reservation system in the Far West.
Who is Geronimo?
300
This act of resistance by the Native Americans combined elements of Christianity with aspects of American Indian religions and was part of what led to the Massacre at Wounded Knee.
What is the Ghost Dance?
400
This US Secretary of State negotiated with Russia in 1867 to buy Alaska for the United States.
Who is William H. Seward?
400
This is the name of the place where thousands of people raced to when they heard of gold discoveries there.
What is Pikes Peak?
400
This person invented barbed wire.
Who is Joseph Glidden?
400
This person was the leader of the Nez Perce.
Who is Chief Joseph?
400
This group of Native Americans were forced by the US Army to leave their lands and take part in the "Long Walk".
Who are the Navajo?
500
This was an agreement between the US government and the southern Plains Indians whereby the Indians agreed to relinquish much of their land in exchange for a reservation in Indian Territory.
What is the Treaty of Medicine Lodge?
500
Mining changed from something done by individuals to an endeavor run primarily by this type of organization.
What is a corporation?
500
These types of farms were better able to handle the boom and bust cycles associated with sever drought and lower wheat prices.
What are family farms?
500
This Paiute Indian reformer asked President Hayes to allow the Paiute to return to their homelands.
Who is Sarah Winnemucca?
500
This Act divided former American Indian land and allotted 160-acre plots to American Indian families for farming; the remaining land could be sold to white settlers and developers.