SETTLING THE WEST
What put an end to open range?
Barbed Wire
A person who moves from place to place
Nomad
These were areas that sprang up almost over night?
Boomtowns
Destroyed crops and ruined the soil
Drought
First African American president
Barack Obama
Great plains farmers were called...
Sodbusters
Describe the culture of the Great Plains Indians.
(Name 2)
Mostly nomads- roamed following buffalos
Extended family networks, Close relationships with nature
Religion based on the belief in the spiritual power of the natural world
Groups of individuals that controlled crime in small towns
Vigilance Committee
What company made the steel-tipped plow?
John Deere
Who is the ONLY president to resign from office?
Richard Nixon
Which act encouraged the settlement of the Great Plains by allowing an individual to claim a plot of land and receive a title for that land after paying a $10 registration fee and living there for five years?
Homestead Act
Name one of the two reasons why Native Americans left their reservations.
Preferred hunting buffalos on open plains
American settlers were violating the treaties
This made the journey West more feasible
Railroads
Wheat Belt
What president won two Grammy awards? (music awards)
Bill Clinton
What was the name of the act that allowed each head of household to allot 160 acres of reservation land for farming and the remaining land was sold to American settlers.
Dawes Act
True or False: The Dawes Act was a failure.
True
Because beef prices were up, there was profit to be made in_________
Cattle Drives
Bonanza Farms
Who is the only president to serve 4 terms?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)
What was the name of the battle that portrayed General Custer as victim after he attacked the Lakota/Cheyenne tribe for leaving their reservations?
Battle of Little Big Horn
An attack on a village of sleeping Cheyenne Indians that resulted in the death of more than 200 members
Sand Creek Massacre
The "Open Range" referred to a vast area of grassland owned by
The Federal Government
The belief that the situation with the Native Americans would improve if the Native Americans could be absorbed into American society as landowners and citizens was known as
Assimilation
Lyndon B. Johnson