Miners and Ranchers
A prospector who stacked a claim after finding silver ore in Six-Mile Canyon near Virginia City, Nevada
Who is Henry Comstock?
Once thought to be worthless land that was turned into America's Wheat Belt
What are the Great Plains?
To be absorbed into another culture.
What is assimilate?
These two groups supported the mass killing of buffalo.
What was the government and the RR companies.
Minerals that were extracted from the Earth during mining (Hint: these are shiny).
Gold, silver, copper
This was where a homesteader could claim up to 160 acres of land and receive the title to it after living there for 5 years.
What is the Homestead Act?
Law and order was enforced by self appointed volunteers who would track down and punish wrongdoers
What is vigilance committees?
How did the gold rush change society in California?
More people were speaking Spanish and practicing the culture.
This breed of cattle could survive the tough prairie grasses.
Texas Long Horn
Huge ranches that covered thousand of acres
What is a haciendas?
Using water to move large quantities of earth and process is for minerals
What is hydraulic mining?
Quick growing towns - both in population and the economy.
What is a boomtown?
Families could be self-supported when given allotments of _____.
What is land?
Provided each state with 30,000 acres to sell for money to fund existing colleges or create new ones that focused on agriculture and the mechanical arts.
What is the Morrill Act?
Why would the Native American Indians not trust the US government with the Dawes Act?
They were promised annuities and were killed and they stole their money.
Nickname given to farmers that plowed the fields in the Great Plains.
What is Sodbusters?
There was a tragedy at this location where Native Americans were preforming a Ghost Dance and over 200 women and children were unfortunately killed for refusing to stop dancing.
Wounded Knee
This act was unsuccessful because of little interest, no knowledge and too small areas of land to farm.
What is the Dawes Act?
What effect would the new mechanical tools have on the production of crops?
Would be able to produce more at a quicker rate.