Native Americans
Term for when people move from place to place
What are nomads?
The open range ended when farmers surrounded their farms with this invention.
What is barbed wire?
The region in the middle of the U.S. where a lot of ranching and farming happen.
What is the Great Plains?
The gold rush of 1849 happened in this state.
What is California?
Document where America announces “breakup” with England.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The Dawes Act gave Native Americans 160 acres of land so they could learn this skill
What is farming?
Strong breed of cattle in Texas that made early ranching possible.
What is the Texas longhorn?
A nickname for a crop that is grown for the purpose of making a profit.
This was the gold rush in Alaska’s icy territory.
What is the Klondike Gold Rush?
The framework (or rulebook) of our government
What is the Constitution?
Two ways Native American students "changed" at boarding schools
what is changing hair, language, skills/hunting, religion
What is the process of rounding up cattle and taking them to railroads to sell?
What are cattle drives?
For $10 dollars settlers would get 160 acres of land if they could live on it for 5 years.
What is the Homestead Act?
This is how gold and ore is transported back to the eastern U.S.
What are railroads?
These are rights guaranteed to the people and were the first 10 amendments to the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This Battle was the last resistance to federal authority.
The last time Native Americans ever physically battled the U.S. military.
What is the Wounded Knee Massacre?
The most famous trail that was used to bring cattle from Texas to the Railroads in the north.
What is the Chisholm Trail?
These were (3) natural disasters that farmers faced on the Great Plains.
What were
fires, blizzards, storms, wind, tornados, drought, insects, locusts, grasshoppers?
The railroads brought goods to the East and brought ________ to the West
What are people?
The 3 branches of the U.S. government
What is executive, legislative, and judicial?
Absorbing a group into the main culture of the country is known as what?
This animal was killed by hunters to force Native Americans onto reservations.
What is the buffalo?
New ____________ made farming possible on the Great Plains.
What is technology?
Two challenges faced by miners during the Klondike Gold Rush
What is cold/far/icy/terrain/wildlife?
The 3 branches of government watch over each other to prevent abuse of power. They have the power to approve or disapprove certain actions of the other branches.
What is checks and balances?