Miners, Ranchers, and Cowhands
Native Americans Fight to Survive
Life in the West
Farming and Populism
Miscellaneous
100
What was the area from the Missouri River to the Rocky Mountains?
Great Plains
100
Which civil war hero died while campaigning against Plains tribes?
Colonel George A. Custer
100
What did Spanish speaking South-westerners call themselves?
Mexicanos
100
What law guaranteed free land in the West?
The Homestead Act
100
People would use this to block other farmers access to resources.
Barbed Wire
200
When Western settlers took justice into their own hands, they called themselves________?
Vigilantes
200
Which 1864 attack killed 150 Cheyenne villagers?
Sand Creek Massacre
200
Settlers went west in order to obtain free land called a_____?
Homestead
200
What was a farmer on the Great Plains called?
Sodbuster
200
Which tribes never formerly their land to the Americans?
Wailake, Tule, River, Mohave
300
Before Americans settled in the West, Mexican ranchers called their cowhands________?
Vaqueros
300
Which law passed by congress tried to reduce Native Americans to practice Western ways?
The Dawes Act
300
What was the first jurisdiction to give women suffrage?
Wyoming
300
Which political parties supported William Jennings Bryan?
Democrats and Populists
300
Who wrote "The Swedish Americans"?
Allyson McGill
400
To which Boomtowns did Texan Ranchers drive their cattle North to______?
Whichita; Dodge City; and Abilene, Kansas
400
Which prophet preached of a land free of white people and filled with buffalo?
Wovoka
400
Which city had the largest increase in population from 1860-1890?
Denver, CO
400
Which state was formed from the last available land in the West?
Oklahoma
400
What was Billy the Kid's real name?
Billy McCarty
500
Which areas of the World did prospectors and miners come from?
West Coast, East Coast, Europe, South America, Mexico, and China
500
Name all of the frontier Native American tribes who resisted U.S. settlement/expansion?
Apache, Cheyenne, Sioux, Arapaho, Nez Perce, and Navajo
500
Which prominent group was never featured in tales of the Wild West?
African Americans
500
How much more did wheat cost after the Civil War than 30 years later?
96 cents
500
Which artist researched 20 years to accurately portray the battle at Little Big Horn?
Edgar S. Paxon
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