Cowboys and Indians
The Frontier
Down on the Farm
Indian Wars
Gone West
100
Demand for this product led to the growth of this industry
What is Beef?
100
provided shelter, but not from snakes and insects
What is Soddy?
100
160 acres of land free to farm
What is Homstead Act 1862?
100
intergarting Native Americans into main stream society by abolishing their culture
What is assimilation?
100
former slaves that settled in the Plains, mainly Kansas
What is Exodusters?
200
The American Cowboy drew many of his customs from ranchers in this country
What is Mexico?
200
Californinia Gold Rush
What is 1849?
200
acummulated by farms to pay for new farm machinery
What is Debt?
200
Custers Last Stand
What is Battle of Little Big Horn?
200
Grass lands that extend through central US
What is Great Plains?
300
Cowboy way of driving cattle to Railroads in the North
What is Long Drive?
300
Created in 1872 as an effort to conserve the Frontier
What is Yellowstone National Park?
300
massive single crop farms owned by RR or private investors
What is Bonanza Fram?
300
ritual intended to restorte Native american way of life
What is Ghost Dance?
300
Two RR met here complete the 1st transcontinental RR
What is Utah?
400
Where long drives began
What is Texas?
400
Late 1800's inovation that closed in the open range
What is Barbed Wire?
400
Not a farm, but a major meat packing center
What is Chicago?
400
Largest Native American tribe in West
What is Sioux?
400
Black metal snake
What is Train/RR?
500
1 in 4 cowboys
What is African American?
500
Name given to the Great Plains by early explorers and trappers
What is Great American Desert?
500
land to granted to states to finance agricultural colleges
What is Morril Land Grant Act?
500
300 Native Americans slaughtered, end of Indian Wars
What is Battle of Wounded Knee?
500
whispering wire
What is Telegraph?
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