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Anything Goes
100
This is an undeveloped area...
What is frontier?
100
The first major treaty between the U.S. government and Plains Indians.
What is Treaty of Fort Laramie?
100
How did the Homestead Act impact farmers?
What is gave small farmers government owned land.
100
This is where Lee surrendered to Grant, ending the Civil War.
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
100
Who were buffalo soldiers?
What is African American cavalry?
200
Who discovered a huge deposit of gold and silver in Nevada?
What is Henry Comstock?
200
Areas of federal land set aside for Native Americans.
What is reservations?
200
Southerners who make a mass departure from the South.
What is exodusters?
200
President Lincoln's speech where he praised the Union soldiers and renewed his commitment to winning the Civil War.
What is Gettysburg Address?
200
Describe the Long Walk.
What is a 300 mile march the Navajo were forced to walk across the desert to a reservation in Bosque Redondo, New Mexico, where countless Navajo died.
300
Describe a boomtown.
What is communities that grew suddenly when a mine opened?
300
Describe the Treaty of Medicine Lodge.
What is treaty signed by Plains Indians stating that they agreed to live on reservations?
300
This name was given to Plains farmers.
What is sodbusters?
300
A series of battles designed to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia.
What is Wilderness Campaign?
300
Describe the National Grange.
What is a social and educational organization for farmers?
400
Describe the Chisholm Trail.
What is one of the earliest and most popular routes for cattle drives; it ran from San Antonio, TX, to Abilene, Kansas?
400
Describe the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
What is Sioux forces led by Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull surrounded and defeated Custer and his troops?
400
Describe dry farming.
What is a new method of farming that shifted the focus away from water-dependent crops such as corn?
400
Midwesterners who sympathized with the South and opposed abolition.
What is Copperheads?
400
Describe the Dawes General Allotment Act of 1887.
What is act tried to lessen traditional influences of Indian society by making land ownership private rather than shared?
500
A system of messengers on horseback.
What is Pony Express?
500
Describe the Massacre at Wounded Knee.
What is the last major incident on the Great Plains where the U.S. Army shot and killed about 150 Sioux near Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota?
500
Describe the Morrill Act.
What is granted more than 17 million acres of federal land to the states?
500
Battle where the Union army gained greater control of the MS River Valley.
What is Battle of Shiloh?
500
Mexico soldiers killed his mother, wife, and children.
What is Geronimo?
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