Settlement
Law the set up the settlement of the West.
What is the Homestead Act?
Law that set up the reservation system in the US.
What is the Dawes Act?
Who are Buffalo Soldiers?
Led the Indian Army at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
Who is Crazy Horse?
Law that established the construction of the transcontinental railway.
What is the Pacific Railway Act?
This is how long someone had to stay on and improve the land they settled under the Homestead Act.
What is five years?
Major battle which led to the death of Lt. Col. Custer and all his men.
Battle of Little Bighorn
Men who led cattle drives.
Who are the cowboys?
Organize a massive Indian confederacy against the US Army at the Little Bighorn.
Who is Sitting Bull?
Workers were brought in from this Asian nation to work on the rail road.
What is China?
This invention closed the open range.
What is barbed wire?
This animal represented life to the Plain's Indians.
What is the buffalo?
This was the most widely used handgun of the old west.
What is the Colt .45?
Created the mail order catalogue.
Who is Richard Sears?
The creation of the transcontinental railroad led to the development of four of these in the US.
What are time zones?
Largest land race of it's day.
What is the Oklahoma Land Race?
Huge massacre of Sioux tribe. Largest mass murder in US history.
What is Wounded Knee?
Mass movement of cattle to railways and slaughterhouses led by cowboys.
He ran the Carlisle Indian school.
Who is Richard Pratt?
This substance was used to black through the Sierra Nevada mountains.
What is nitro glycerine?
This animal plagued the great plains until it soon became extinct in the US.
What are locusts?
School established in PA to teach Indian children how to be "Americans".
What is the Carlisle School?
Huge massacre of Cheyenne in Eastern Colorado.
What is the Sand Creek Massacre?
Abraham Lincoln freed all men, but this man made them equal.
Who is Samuel Colt?
The transcontinental railway eventually linked up in this state.
What is Utah?