Important Names
The President of Central Pacific.
Who was Leland Stanford?
The conflict with a native American group and the US army when the natives refused to settle onto a reservation and the US raided their homes and livestock.
The Navajo conflict
The most notorious cow town in Kansas known for gunfights deaths and crime.
Where was Dodge City, Kansas
The bill congress attempted to pass to protect an animal that lived on the plains
The Bison Protection Act
the final stake in the transcontinental railroad was laid
what happened on
may 10 1869
A railroad tycoon who had 10,000 workers to build rails across the plains to the west
Who Was Grenville Dodge
The conflict that broke out from American Indians that wanted their hunting land and whites who wanted the indigenous people on reservations.
What was the Texan and Comanche conflict
The towns that popped up quickly after a mine was established
What are Boomtowns
The act that moved indigenous people from their homelands to reservations all over the country
What was the Indian removal act
The head of construction at central pacific who hired 12,000 Chinese workers
Who was Charles Crocker
The Tribe that defeated the local militia while fleeing for their freedom in Canada.
What was the Nez Perce Tribe
The best growing location for crops in America and still is to this day
What are The Great Plains
The act that kept tribes from owning reservations Together
What was the Dawes act
A panic that was set of because of the collapse of Jay Cooke's banking clan and the financial crisis it triggered.
What was The Panic of 1873
An expert rail roper and trail cook who was not his team's boss because of black prejudice
Who was Jim Perry
After many Sioux left the reservation, a shoot-out happened which killed around 150 Indians.
What was the massacre at Wounded Knee Creek?
The river where several thousand American Indians and 200 white solders fought in present day Montana
What was Little big horn river
Congress donated land to move troops and U.S. mail faster around the country in an act.
What was the Pacific Railway Act?
Barbed wire, which further spread the divide between the wild west.
What was invented in 1874
A famous law official who brought peace to cattle towns
Who is Marshal Wyatt Earp
A conflict between a bond of raiders and the U.S. army that lasted many years
what was the Apache raiders conflict
A trail that ran from San Antonio Texas to Abilene, Kansas.
What was the Chisholm trail
Miners and Settlers in the west had a tough time with Indians which made Congress make a major treaty with the Plain Indians.
What was the Treaty of Fort Laramie?
the system of the pony express
what was established in 1860