Vocab 1
a large wild ox with horns that point to the back.
What is Buffalo?
a place where crops are grown or animals are raised.
What is Farm?
the act that allowed the federal government to break up tribal lands.
the act that allowed the federal government to break up tribal lands.
What is the Dawes Act?
What year did Congress pass the Homestead Act?
1862
What was the Grange?
an organization for farmers.
another term for the Dakota people or their language.
What is Sioux?
an alternative shelter when wood or stone was scarce.
What is Soddy?
What year did the Spanish bring horses to New Mexico?
What is 1598?
What two companies raced to lay railroad track?
the Central Pacific and Union Pacific.
What was the Populist Party platform?
the platform of the Democratic Party.
a high plateau of grasslands that is located in parts of the United States and Canada in North America.
What is The Great Plains?
a person who moves with a group of others to live in a new country or area.
What is Settler?
What was the result of Custer's Last Stand?
the result was that Colonel Custer and his troops all ended up dead
What type of farms were created in light of farmers in debt?
Bonanza Farms.
How were the railroads taking advantage of farmers?
charging excessive prices for shipping and storage.
What is Native American?
the science or practice of farming, including cultivation of the soil for the growing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide food, wool, and other products.
What is Agriculture?
What is the Treaty of Fort Laramie?
the Sioux agreed to live on a reservation along the Missouri River.
How did new inventions change farming in the West?
these new inventions made farming in the West faster and more efficient.
What was the Grange's original purpose?
to pro-vide a social outlet and an educational forum for isolated farm families.
a Hunkpapa Lakota leader who led his people during years of resistance against United States government policies.
Who is Sitting Bull?
several laws in the United States by which an applicant could acquire ownership of government land or the public domain, typically called a homestead.
What is The Homestead Act?
What was the government’s policy toward Native American land?
there were treaties made that designated specific boundaries for each Native American tribes land.
What type of settlers were called Exodusters?
African Americans who moved from the post-Reconstruction South to Kansas.
What caused the panic of 1893?
3 million people became unemployed.