In 1800, 60 million of these roamed the Plains of the United States but by 1900 only 750 remained.
What are Buffalo?
100
The emotion that was felt between Native Americans and the United States
What is tension?
100
African American units founded here at Fort Leavenworth and Fort Riley
What are the Buffalo Soldiers?
200
Led the Raid on Lawrence killing somewhere between 140 - 200 people on August 21, 1863
Who is William Quantrill?
200
Earliest Responsibility of the Frontier Forts
What is protect the wagon trains going west?
200
White Buffalo Hunters killed this many buffalo in a day
What is a Large Number or as many as they could?
200
A big peace treaty deciding the fate of the Plains Indians
What is the Medicine Lodge treaty?
200
Were hiring white buffalo hunters to kill buffalo
What are the Railroads?
300
Not permitted to serve in the military during the Civil War - were allowed to make uniforms and blankets, raising money, were active in the United States Sanitary Commission
Who are Women
300
These people tried to steal the Native American land
What are Squatters?
300
Native Americans only killed this number of buffalo
What is only what they needed?
300
Kiowa Chief that Spoke at the Medicine Lodge Treaty
Who is Satanta?
300
Name of at least two tribes present at Medicine Lodge Treaties
What are Cheyenne, Arapaho, Kiowa, Apache, and Comanche?
400
Organized by James Lane - provided special protection for President Lincoln - stayed the evening in the East Room of the White House
What is the Frontier Guard?
400
Although it would seem that US soldiers would be protecting settlers exclusively - Often times US soldiers had to protect this group from settlers
What are Native Americans?
400
White Buffalo Hunters would do this with the buffalo
What is waste - some for meat and skins - mostly waste?
400
Massacre that actually took place in Colorado - as the book describes it - "one of the most tragic events in western history" - where 150 Native Americans lost their lives.
What is the Sand Creek Massacre?
400
Order that cleared all settlers out of four western Missouri counties
What is Order No. 11?
500
Kansas was the first state to enlist these soldiers
Who are African American?
500
The idea that the United States had the right to go stretch and expand from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
500
What the Native Americans did with the buffalo
What is everything?
500
Native American leader who survived the Sand Creek Massacre - had been given a giant American flag by President Abraham Lincoln
Who is Black Kettle?
500
Fort was established to protect workers building the Union Pacific Railroad