What am I?
Acts & Treaties
Terms to Know
Potpourri
Misc
100
An African American that left the South for the West.
What is an exoduster?
100
Gov't offered 160 free acres of land to anyone who agreed to live on & improve it for 5 years.
What is the Homestead Act?
100
Unsettled or sparsely settled area occupied largely by Native Americans
What is the frontier?
100
Tool or other object made by humans
What is an artifact?
100
What were some reasons that led to the near extinction of the buffalo
What is hunters were hired to kill them to feed crews building railroads, buffalo were shot for sport, to supply Eastern factories with leather.
200
The Plains Indians depended on this animal for their survival
What are the buffalo?
200
This treaty was signed but all but 2 of the Great Plains tribes because they saw no other choice.
What is the First Treaty of Fort Laramie?
200
The belief that the US was destined to stretch across the continent from the Atlantic-Pacific Ocean
What is manifest destiny?
200
This group wanted a policy that would raise crop prices
What is the Populist Party?
200
The main reason that exodusters moved west.
What is racism?
300
Cattle drives to cow towns along the railroads were known as this
What is a long drive?
300
This act encouraged Native Americans to give up their traditional ways and become farmers.
What is the Dawes Act?
300
When you become part of another culture
What is assimilation?
300
Group that formed to meet the social needs of farm families
What is the Grange?
300
The reason that thousands of miners move west
What is gold/silver?
400
What was the name of the first trail that stretched from Texas to Kansas?
What is the Chisholm Trail?
400
Identify 3 reasons that the Dawes Act failed
What is the natives did not want to become farmers, they lacked tools, training and $.
400
To bring/introduce someone into American culture
What is americanization?
400
US army was sent to track down the Ghost Dancers. Sioux were giving up their weapons & US troopers killed about 300 men women & children
What is the Battle of Wounded Knee/Wounded Knee Massacre
400
Identify inventions that helped farmers meet challenges of the west.
What are the steel plow, windmills, barbed wire, reapers, threshers?
500
$300 million in sliver & gold was found here buried in layers of rock.
What is the Comstock Lode?
500
This treaty gave the Sioux, Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes a large reservation in the Black Hills of South Dakota.
What is the Second Fort Laramie Treaty?
500
A town that has a sudden burst of economic or population growth
What is a boomtown?
500
The name of the 1st major railroad of its kind that contributed to the settlement of the West
What is the transcontinental railroad?
500
This symbolized the closing of the frontier and the completion of Manifest Destiny
What was the Oklahoma Land Rush?
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