Old West Towns & RR's
VIP's of the West
Ranchers & Farmers
Plains Indians
Miscellaneous
100
Boomtown
What is the nickname of an area that experienced a rapid increase in its population?
100
Custer
What is the name of the colonel in charge at the Battle of Little Bighorn?
100
barbed wire
What was the invention that was supposed to put an end to the Range Wars?
100
"travelling department store"
What did white settlers refer to the buffalo as, when they witnessed how much of the buffalo the Native Americans used?
100
160
What is the number of acres one would receive with the Homestead Act?
200
Ghost town
What is the nickname of an area that experiences a rapid decrease in its population?
200
Chief Joseph
What is the name of the Nez Perces leader whose tribe was chased from the US to Canada ("I will fight no more forever.")?
200
Describe the main problem between the ranchers and the farmers out west.
A difference in the use of property. Farmers had property lines. Ranchers did not. Ranchers' cattle would wander onto farmland, ruining crops.
200
"Hollow Victory"
What is the term for the Battle of Little Bighorn, as seen through the eyes of the Plains Indians?
200
"as long as the grass grows and the wind blows..."
What is the length of the agreement with the Ft. Laramie Treaty?
300
vigilantes
What is the term for people that take the law into their own hands?
300
"Buffalo Bill" Cody
What is name of the former hunter who formed a "circus" of Native Americans and cowboys?
300
Exodusters
What was the nickname of ex-slaves who successfully farmed Homestead land?
300
Dawes Act
What is the name of the law that forced Native Americans onto reservations and "Americanize" them?
300
cooperatives
What is the name of groups that decided to buy their farm supplies wholesale?
400
Chinese and Irish
What two immigrant groups supplied much of the labor needed to create the transcontinental railroad?
400
"Walk the white man's road"
What term did Native Americans use to describe their "Americanization"?
400
Describe how the formation of the transcontinental railroad was eventually able to lessen the problems between farmers and ranchers.
In bringing "spurs" of the railroad to ranching country, the ranchers didn't have to drive their cattle through as much farmland.
400
Wounded Knee Massacre
What is the name of the one-sided battle that the US Army won against the Plains Indians following Custer's Last Stand?
400
"Free Silver"
What is the name of William Jennings Bryan's idea to eliminate the gold standard?
500
Utah
What state is the location of Promontory Point, the place where the two ends of the transcontinental railroad met?
500
William Jennings Bryan
Who was the leader of the Populist Party, that hoped to bring more money to farmers by eliminating the gold standard?
500
sodbusters
What was the nickname for those who farmed Homestead land on treeless prairies?
500
Ghost Dance
What is the name of the event that scared the settlers enough to bring in the US Army?
500
Grange
What is the name of the organization that was started in Fredonia, based on the idea of farmers unifying?
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