What is type of mining whereby early prospectors would extract shallow depostis of ore using picks and shovels
100
Long drives
What is journey across the Plains to bring cattle to railroad shipping centers
100
Dry farming
What is a farming approcach in which farmers planted seeds deep in the ground where there was enough mositure for them
100
Nomads
Who are Native Americans who roamed the Great Plains
100
Cheap land
What is a reason people settled the Plains
200
Comstock Lode
What was a rich deposit of silver
200
Barbed wire
What is the invention that helped end the cowboy lifestyle
200
Prairie Fires
What was a hardship faced by settlers on the Great Plains
200
Sand Creek Massacre
What was the attack by Colonel John Chivington on the Cheyenne who came to Fort Lyon to negotiate a peace deal.
200
Allotment
What is breaking up reservations into individual plots of land, where families could become self-supporting.
300
Quartz mining
What is a type of mining used after ore near the surface dwindles
300
Longhorn
What is a type of cattle that roamed wild on the grasslands of Texas
300
Homestead Act
What is Act whereby homesteaders could gain title to the land by living there for five years
300
Killing the buffalo
What was a strategy by the army to force Native Americans onto reservation
300
Battle of Little Big Horn
What is the battle where General George Custer and the Seventh Cavalry were wiped out by the Native Americans
400
Gold miners near Pikes Peak
What were people who used the phrase"Pikes Peak or Bust" looking for
400
Vigilance committees
What is self-appointed law enforcers
400
Continue to perform a ritual (Ghost Dance)
Why did the confrontation at Wounded Knee occurr?
400
Assimilate
What is being absorbed in the American society
400
Dime Novels
What were books inspired by cowboys' exaggerated tales of daring
500
Lead deposits that contained large amounts of silver
How did the boomtown of Leadville get its name
500
Mavericks
What were stray calves with no identifying symbols
500
Helen Hunt Jackson
Writer who sparked discussion of better treatment for Native Americans
500
Dawes Act
What is the Act that attempted to help Native American assimilate and by selling land and building a trust of money for them
500
Sitting Bull
Who was the Lakota chief who helped to keep traditional religious practices of this people alive even after he and his followers reluctantly returned to the reservation.