States
Great Plains
Native Americans
Famous Years
Other Western People
100
The first gold rush took place in this state
What is California?
100
This law gave settlers 160 acres of free land.
What is the Homestead Act?
100
Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse defeated this general.
What is Custer?
100
Year of Homestead Act
What is 1862?
100
Wrote Century of Dishonor
Who is Helen Hunt Jackson?
200
The Black Hills were located in this state.
What is South Dakota?
200
The people of Great Plains depended on this to survive.
What is buffalo?
200
Sitting Bull and Crazy horse were leaders of this tribe.
What is the Lakota Sioux?
200
In this year there were only 34 buffalo
What is 1903?
200
Patented barbed wire
Who is Joseph Glidden?
300
Many reservations were set aside for Native Americans west of this river.
What is the Mississippi?
300
Because of huge amount of wheat farmed the Great Plains were also known as
What is "The Wheat Belt"?
300
Leader of the Nez Perce tribe
Who is Chief Joseph?
300
Battle of Little Bighorn
What is 1876?
300
Attacked and killed 450 Cheyenne
Who is Colonel Chivington?
400
This state was the cattle raising center of the United States
What is Texas?
400
Grassy land that belonged to federal government where were allowed to graze or feed.
What is an open range?
400
This was passed to improve treatment of Native Americans and provide allotments of land
What is the Dawes Act?
400
Dawes Act was passed
What is 1887?
400
Mexican cowboys also known as
What is vaqueros or cowhands?
500
These huge farms were often on the landscape of the American west.
What are bonanza farms?
500
The Central Pacific and Union Pacific built this across the U.S.
What is Transcontinental Railroad?
500
Chief of the Lakota Sioux, killed by gunfire as U.S. troops tried to arrest him.
Who is Chief Sitting Bull?
500
Gold discovered in California
What is 1849?
500
Found a large deposit of silver in Virginia City, Nevada?
Who is Henry Comstock?
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