Vocabulary 1
Buffalo
What is, "an American species of bison that once roamed North America in vast herds?"
Indian Wars
What is, "a series of conflicts between Native American Indians and white settlers over land and natural resources in the West?"
Supplies brought by the Spanish
What are, "Guns and horses?"
The solution to farmers in debt.
What is, "Railroad companies and investors created bonanza farms, enormous single crop spreads of 15,000 to 50,000 acres?"
The starter of Patron's of Husbandry.
Who is Oliver Hudson Kelley?
Great Plains
What is, "a flatland West of the Mississippi River and East of the Rocky Mountains?"
George A. Custer
What is, "a Union cavalry officer in the American Civil War (1861–65) and a U.S. commander in wars against Native Americans over control of the Great Plains?"
Dawes Act provided this to Native American Indians.
What is, "160 acres of land to heads of the household and 80 acres of land to unmarried adults?"
The creator of a plow that could slice through heavy soil.
Who is John Deere?
The effect on wheat bushel costs after the Economic Distress.
What is, "Price drop from 2 dollars to 68c?"
Transcontinental Railroad
What is, "a train route across the United States that connected the East and West regions?"
Sitting Bull
What is, "a Teton Dakota Native American chief who united the Sioux tribes of the American Great Plains against the white settlers taking their tribal land?"
Hide from buffalo was used to make this.
What are, "Native American clothes, tepees, and arrow shields?"
The Morrill Act
What is, "Gave federal land to the states to help finance agricultural colleges."
The railroads that went bankrupt due to the Panic of 1893.
What are, "the Philadelphia, Reading, Erie, Northern Pacific, Union Pacific, and Santa Fe railroads?"
Dawes Act
What is, "a U.S. law that turned Native American Indians into farmers and landowners?"
Pawnee
What is, "a Central Plains Indian tribe that historically were based in Nebraska and Kansas?"
The year the Transcontinental Railroad was finished.
What is, "1869?"
The Hatch Act
What is, "Established agricultural experiment stations to inform farmers of new developments?"
Define a silverty.
What is, "a person who favored bimetallism, a monetary system in which the government would give citizens gold or silver in exchange for paper currency or checks?"
Missouria
What is, "a Native American tribe that originated in the Great Lakes region of what is now the United States before European contact?"
Osage
What is, "a North American Indian tribe of the Dhegiha branch of the Siouan linguistic stock?"
The ritual that was promised to restore Native American lands and their way of life.
What is, "The Ghost Dance"
Jobs of a women on the flat prairie.
What is, "plowing and planting land, harvesting wheat, sheering sheep, carding wool for clothes, hauled water, dug holes, made soap and candles, canned fruits and vegetables, and doctoring the people of the prairie?"
Define a Goldbug.
What is, "a person that favors the gold standard, which backed all dollars with solid gold?"