The West 1
The practice of separating heavily eroded minerals like gold from sand or gravel
What is Placer Mining
Vast areas of land owned by the government for cattle grazing
What is the Open Range
What is Barbed Wire
A person who travels from place to place. No permeant home.
What is a Nomad
Famous American General who died at the Little Big Horn.
Who is George Custer
An early prospector who found didn't realize he hit a major silver discovery!
Who was Henry Comstock
Land once thought to be worthless was transformed when this crop was found to grown there.
What is the Wheat Belt.
How much land was given to those who qualify under the Homestead Act?
What is 10
Did the Dawes Act succeed?
What is no!
The famous trail used by cowboys to push cattle.
What is the Chisholm Trail
Rounding up of cattle and moving them over long distances.
What is the Long Drive
$10, live on land for 5 years.
What are requirements of the Homestead Act
Area of the country where Wheat grows well.
What is the Whet Belt
Dividing reservation land up for families to farm.
What are Allotments.
This land deal in 1803 by Thomas Jefferson more than doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase
The large farms - sometimes 50,000 acres - would make great money for their owners
What are Bonanza Farms
What is assimilate
This Act of Congress gave Native Americans free land to farm on the Great Plains
What is the Dawes Act
A native American Dance
What is the Ghost Dance
Pull factors for people to move west.
Self-appointed volunteers who kept law and order in western towns.
What were Vigliance Committees
This explorer who first Great Plains claimed the land won't be good for any practical use.
What is Dry Farming
People who blowed the rock hard soil of the Great Plains
Who where the Sodbusters.
Annual payments from the Government to Indians for them to live on reservations
What are Annuities