Native Americans
A leader of the Sioux tribe, he was the co-leader of the Native Americans at the battle of Little Big Horn
Who was Sitting Bull
Where did Col John Chivington lead the US Cavalry in the slaughter of 150 Arapaho and Cheyenne men, women and children.
What is the Sand Creek Massarce
What was the name of the 1859 silver strike in the Carson River Valley of present day Nevada.
What was the Comstock Lode
These were the humble homes built by stacking blocks of prairie turf to form houses
What were Soddies
Originally named the Patrons of Animal Husbandry, this organization for farmers became popularly known as the?
What was the Grange
He set precedents whatever he did.
Who was George Washington
He invented the steel tipped plow and later on, lots of tractors.
Who was John Deere
The name for the railroad that spanned North America
What is the transcontinental railroad
He was the co-founder of Apple Inc and is still alive.
Who is Steve Wozniak
He was the Native American leader who ambushed Capt. William Fetterman on the Bozeman trail
Who was Crazy Horse
What was the name of the Government poilcy that forced Native Americans to Would give up their beliefs in way of life and become part of white culture
What is assimilation
What was the name given to the sturdy short-tempered breed of cattle that could travel long distances without much water and live on grass alone.
What were Longhorns
In 1862 Congress passed this act which offered 160 Acres of Farm land free to any citizen who was the head of a household and would live on the land for 5 years.
What was the Homestead Act.
The Idea of backing the value of money with only gold was known as?
What was the gold standard
He was president during the War of 1812
Who was James Madison
This invention speeded up the harvesting process and did the work of several men.
What was the reaper
What canal connects the Red sea with the Mediterranean sea
What is the Suez Canal
What is the Most popular A.I. application for writing
What is ChatGBT
These migratory animals were Central to Native American nomadic life. They provided meet hides and bones which were used in daily life
What is the Buffalo
This law passed in 1887 broke up reservations and gave some of the land to individual Native Americans to farm -- 160 acres to each head of a household and 80 acres to each unmarried adult
What is the Dawes Act
This type of mining could extract surface gold or silver and minerals that were found in loose sand and gravel
What is Placer Mining
These were enormous single crop farms of anywhere from 15,000 to 50,000 Acres.
What was a Bonanza Farm
The political party which grew out of the need for political change based on the concerns of farmers.
What was the Populist Party
Who was the Last President before the Civil War?
Who was James Buchanan
What US government agency announced that America no longer had a frontier
What was the US Census Bureau
He was the English king who invented disposable wives
Who was Henry VIII
He invented the modern tube TV
Who was Philo Farnsworth
This ritual movement, done by Native Americans, promised that their way of life would be restored
What was the Ghost Dance Movement
300 starving and cold Sioux Native Americans were slaughtered at this battle in South Dakota
What is the Battle of Wounded Knee
The invention of this, used to enclosed farmland, ended the era of the cattle drive by blocking off land that had been used to move cattle to the Railheads
What is Barbed Wire
This was the name given to African Americans who left the South and moved to the Great Plains to take advantage of the Homestead Act and Farm for themselves
What was Exodusters
Champion of the Populist cause and democratic candidate for President in 1896
Who was William Jennings Bryan
Who became president as a result of the Compromise of 1877
Who was Rutherford B. Hayes
By the turn of the century, what percentage of the American population lived west of the Mississippi River?
What is 30 percent
This company invented the original Jeep
Who was Willys
The name of America's first Nuclear submarine
What was the Nautilus
This book by Helen Hunt Jackson exposed the government's many broken promises to Native Americans
What was "A Century of Dishonor"
This war between the Kiowa, Comanche and the US Cavalry lasted from 1874 to 1875 and crushed Native American resistance in the southern plains
What was the Red River War
This was the name of the major cattle drive route from San Antonio, Texas to Abilene or Ellsworth, Kansas
What was the Chisholm Trail
Passed by Congress in 1887 this act provided more funding to colleges to establish agricultural experiment stations
What was the Hatch Act
The idea of using both gold and silver to back the value of currency
What is bimetal-lism
He was the Republican Candidate for President in 1896
Who was William McKinley
What state saw 2 million acres scooped up in a land rush in less than a day?
What is Oklahoma.
What line passes through Greenwich England
What is the Prime Meridian
Who was the second man to set foot on the moon
Who is Buzz Aldrin
Native American chief who unsuccessfully appealed to the government to end white settlement along the Bozeman trail.
Who was Red Cloud
The treaty that force the Sioux tribe to live on reservations along the Missouri River
What was the Treaty of Fort Laramie
This type of Mining involves tunnels and the use explosives
What is Hard Rock Mining
Passed by Congress in 1862 and 1890, these acts gave federal land to states to support the establishment of agricultural colleges
What are the Morrill Acts
He was the person who founded the Grange or the Patrons of Animal Husbandry
Who was Oliver Hudson Kelley
He was President during the "Trail of Tears"
Who was Andrew Jackson
He gave the famous "Cross of Gold" Speech at the democratic convention of 1896
Who was William Jennings Bryan
Where is the Southern most point in the United States?
What is Key West Florida
Who invented the Microscope?
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