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100
A rail link between the East and the West
What is the transcontinental railroad ?
100
Indian Chief that surrendered with deeply felt words "I will fight no more forever" Also, the leader of the Nez Perc's Indians.
Who is Chief Joseph ?
100
A specific area set aside by the U.S. government for the use of Indians.
What is a reservation ?
100
Starting in the mid-1800s, hoards of people traveled to the West out of a desire to strike it rich by finding __________.
What is gold or silver ?
100
A crop grown not for its own use but to be sold.
What is a cash crop ?
200
Legislation that gave black citizens the right to ride trains and use other public facilities.
What is The Civil Rights Act of 1875 ?
200
This Indian chief was trained as a holy man and became a spiritual leader of the Sioux Indian tribes. He was eventually arrested and then killed in a confrontation as Indians tried to free him.
Who is Sitting Bull ?
200
The site where over 100 fleeing Indians were killed by U.S. troops. (South Dakota)
What is Wounded Knee ?
200
"If you tie a horse to a stake, do you expect he will grow fat? If you pen an Indian up on a small spot of earth, and compel him to stay there, he will not be contented, nor will he grow and prosper. Chief Joseph is commenting on this _______________system designed to contain the Indians.
What is the reservation system ?
200
To absorb into the culture of a population or group.
What is assimilate ?
300
The site of a victory by Indians led by Crazy Horse over 250 U.S. soldiers led by General George Custer.
What is Battle of Little Big Horn ?
300
Benjamin Singleton,a black businessman from Tennessee helped organize a group of African Americans called _________________.
What is Exodusters ?
300
In 1868 it was the temporary terminal of the Union Pacific Railroad that earned wide notoriety as the hottest of red hot towns in the west. A cemetery was started the same day as the town was established. and more than 100 graves disgraced the plot that was set aside in which the dead were buried.
What is Benton, Wyoming ?
300
Between 1864 and 1896 ten territories did this which exemplified the West's growth.
What is became states ?
300
A self-appointed enforcer of the law.
What is a vigilante ?
400
Faced with serious difficulties, Texas farmers in the 1870's began to organize and negotiate as a group for lower prices for supplies. Local organizations linked together in the South and West. This became known as the _________.
What is Farmers’ Alliance ?
400
Towns hired marshals and sheriffs to keep the peace. Two of these men gained national recognition for their outstanding service. Name one of these men.
Who is Wyatt Earp or Bat Masterson ?
400
A band of Colorado militia came upon an unarmed camp of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians who were under U.S. Army protection, gathered at _______________. The troops opened fire, killing many men, women, and children. This event spawned another round of warfare as Plains Indians joined forces to repel white settlement.
What is Sand Creek, Colorado ?
400
Industry rests on a three-legged stool: Natural Resources, Labor, and ____________________.
What is Capital Investment ?
400
Enough to meet a need. By the late 1860's, they were forced to live on reservations, where they lacked _____________ resources.
What is adequate ?
500
This replaced the reservation system with an allotment system where each Indian family was granted 160-acre farmstead.
What is the Dawes General Allotment Act ?
500
This person wrote a book (A Century of Dishonor) that sharply criticized the U.S. government's history of shattered treaties. Her work helped build sympathy for the plight of Native Americans.
Who is Helen Hunt Jackson ?
500
The Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads came together at _______________ Utah in 1869.
What is Promontory, Utah ?
500
The culture of the cowboy owed its very existence to the Mexican _________________ who had learned to train horses to work with cattle and had developed the roping skills, saddle, lariat, and chaps needed to do the job.
What are vaqueros ?
500
Another word for manage... To _______________ justice, miners set up rules of conduct and procedures for settling disputes.
What is administer ?
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