Transcontinental Railroad
What was the Transcontinental Railroad?
It connected the east coast with the west coast.
How many acres did the Homestead Act give to settlers?
160
What gave many Native Americans that lived on reservation hope?
The Ghost Dance
A person who received 160 acres of land to farm and live on.
Homesteader
What was the main reason the plains Indians could not continue living the way they had been?
Fewer buffalo.
Where did the Union Pacific Railroad start?
Omaha, Nebraska
What were three things the Homestead Act required homesteaders to do to keep their 160 acres.
Be at least 21 years old, farm the land, and build a house, live on it for 5 years.
What caused the Battle of Little Bighorn?
discovery of gold in the Black Hills, the government let prospectors on their sacred land.
African Americans who moved to the great plains to farm.
Exoduster
How many ceremonial spikes were there at Promontory Point?
Gold, Silver, Gold Silver and Iron
Where did the Central Pacific Railroad start?
Sacramento, California
Why did the cattle drives end at cow towns?
That was the railroads were.
Why and how was Sitting Bull killed?
killed by reservation police for the Ghost Dance
An organization that is jointly owned by those who use its services.
cooperative
What Native American chief fled with some followers to Canada after the Battle of Little Bighorn?
Chief Sitting Bull
Where did the two companies meet?
Promontory Point, Utah
Give two examples of how the railroad changed the west.
1. made it easier to travel out west. 2. increased conflicts with Native Americans. 3. brought more ethnic groups out west.
When Crazy Horse was killed 350 Sioux left the reservation and camped where?
Wounded Knee Creek
A statement of a political party's policies and beliefs is call what?
platform
This act broke up Native American reservations into 160 acre sections?
The Dawes Act
Which railroad laid more track?
Union Pacific
What were three things that ended the cattle drives?
1. falling cattle prices. 2. use of barbed wire. 3. droughts 4. blizzards 5. added railroads into Texas
Who was the chief in the Sand Creek Massacre that wave a white flag to protect his people from attack by the U.S. military?
Chief Black Kettle
The government wanted Native Americans to be absorbed into the main culture.
assimilate
Who was the spiritual leader that offered the Ghost Dance as a vision of hope to Native Americans living on reservations.
Wovoka