Life on the Great Plains
The Great Plains was home to this group of people for millenia (more than 1000 years)
Native American tribes
the western edge of the transcontinental railroad was ___________________, and the eastern edge was ______________?
Sacramento, California
Omaha, Nebraska
This Apache leader was seen as a king, and known for respectful relations with the Anglo-Americans?
Cochise
Fr. Pierre Jean de Smet was known as a ______ among Natives and the U.S. government?
peacemaker
This word was used to describe the many unruly communities in the West?
Congeries of towns and cities
What was the route of the Southern Pacific railroad?
New Orleans, Louisiana to San Francisco, CA
This is considered the largest - both in population and geography - of all Native American groups in the USA, and they inhabit Northeastern Arizona?
Navajo tribe/Navajo nation
This animal was regularly used by Native Americans for food, and other material resource needs?
Buffalo
these groups of immigrants were essential in building the transcontinental railroad?
Chinese and Irish
This Apache leader opposed the Apaches being moved from their traditional homeland leading him to escape multiple times?
Geronimo
Katharine Drexel was from this U.S. city, though her impact was throughout the United States?
Philadelphia
Why were the Minnesota Sioux killed after they rose up against the US Army?
The Sioux had not been given their subsidy from the US Army due to the Civil War, and revolted. By punishing them for revolting, the US Army massacred many Sioux.
This was where many Indians were forced to move to, in the USA?
Indian Territory (Oklahoma)
There was controversy with Geronimo when he was accused of this crime?
Kidnapping a child of a US Army member
the midpoint for the transcontinental railroad was?
Promotory Point, Utah - between Sacramento, CA and Omaha, NE
This law encouraged American settlers to move and control land in the West?
Homestead Act
In Arizona, twenty two of these exist, which serve as pieces of land given to Native American communities from fed govt, they have also been used throughout the US to relocate Native tribes?
Reservations
Fr Pierre Jean de Smet was a member of this religious order, from this nation?
What were the Apaches of southern Arizona known for?
Fierce fighting, opposition to being told what to do by the US Army/Government.
What was the route of the Santa Fe railroad?
Atchison, Kansas to San Diego, California
This was the reservation/area where the Apaches were moved to, which was hated by Geronimo
San Carlos Apache reservation
This mode of transportation was built across the Great Plains to connect the eastern U.S. with the Pacific coast?
Transcontinental railroad
This law broke up reservation land and gave smaller plots of land to Native Americans but proved to not be helpful to Native Americans?
Dawes Act
The start of the Indian wars was _________, while the end of the Indian wars was __________.
Battle of Little Bighorn
Wounded Knee Massacre
A veteran of the Civil War this American general was seen as a martyr for having died at the Battle of Little Bighorn?
George Armstrong Custer
This was the name given to the end of a railroad line?
Railhead
Both the Northern Pacific and Great Northern railroads began in this "Great Lake"
Lake Superior
Cochise was buried in an unmarked grave in these mountains of Cochise County
Dragoon Mountains
Famous Indian leaders were both present at Battle of Little Bighorn & represented opposition to American expansion?
Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse
What was the Indian Problem?
What to do with the thousands of Native Americans who were in the way of "Westward Expansion".
Religious/cultural events, held in the Great Plains were meant to gain help of deceased Natives to remove white settlers?
Ghost dances
St. Katharine Drexel showed this virtue among Black and Native communities across the U.S. in late 1800s and early 1900s?
Generosity, friendship, love, compassion
What did Old Joseph of the Nez Perce and Geronimo of the Apaches have in common?
They were both unwilling to move from their ancestral land.
Why was the Fetterman's Massacre a turning point for how Anglo-Americans treated the Native Americans?
It was an attack that killed 80 US troops and their commander, William Fetterman
This is the number of Indian reservations in Arizona?
22