Group of ordinary citizens who organize to find criminals and bring them to justice
Vigilance Committee
100
Method of mining by which water is sprayed:
What is hydraulic mining
100
Railroad companies sold land along the rail lines at low prices and provided credit to settlers
What is Prospective
100
Why are native Americans Indians nomadic
What is THEY FOLLOWED THEIR MAIN FOOD SOURCE _ THE BUFFALO
100
Who was battle of Little Bighorn between?
What is The Sioux and Cheyenne and US military
200
Vast area of grassland owned by the Federal Government
What is Open Range
200
A town undergoing rapid growth due to sudden prosperity
What is boomtowns
200
One new farming method, called , was to plant seeds deep in the ground, where there was enough moisture for them to grow
What is Dry Farming
200
How were annuities used between US and NA
What is The NA agreed to live on reservations in exchange for annuities
200
Last Native American battle was
What is Wounded Knee Creek
300
To change in order to meet the demands of a certain environment or circumstances
What is to adapt
300
remove or take out, especially by effort or force
What is to extract
300
For a small registration fee, an individual could file for a homestead—a tract of public land available for settlement. A homesteader could claim up to 160 acres of land and receive title to it after living there for five years.
What is the Homestead Act
300
How did the arrival of new settlers affect the plains Indians?:
What is They were driven into poverty and corrupt practices of American traders, Settlers stole all buffalo and left NA poor
300
Why did people want to have Native Americans assimilate?
What is So they could move into American society as citizens and it would be a solution to violence.
400
Spanish speaking neighborhoods in a town or city
What is Barrios
400
Many left and rushed to this area to find a source of gold in 1858
What is Pikes Peak
400
On April 22, 1889, the government opened one of the last large territories for settlement. Within hours, thousands of people raced to stake claims
What is the Oklahoma Land Rush
400
.What Plan was doomed for failure between US Govt and NA?
What is The Indian Peace Commission 1867
400
to absorb a group into another culture
What is assimilation
500
A huge ranch used by both hispanic and American Farmers
What is Haciendas
500
Three new states that were admitted into the United States in 1889
What is North Dakota, South Dakota, and Montana.
500
Some wheat farms covered up to 65,000 acres. These were called
What is Bonanza Farms
500
The main source of food that the Indians relied on, but the government the slaughter of them
What is Buffalo
500
What did the Dawes Act do for Native Americans?
What is divided reservation land into allotments for farming