Native Americans that lived in the Plains lived in these types of houses.
What are tepees?
What are Ghost Towns?
Farmers in the Western Plains lived in these types of houses.
What are sod-houses?
This Apache Native American famously fought of many American soldiers without any aid and avoided capture for over ten years.
Who is Geronimo?
What is a reservation?
What is the Buffalo?
These two railroad companies competed against in each other in the hopes of being the first to complete the transcontinental railroad.
What are the Union Pacific and Central Pacific?
This famous trail was well traveled by ranchers and cows during the 1860s.
What is the Chisholm Trail?
In order to establish some sort of law in the Western mining towns, these volunteers began enforcing the rules.
Who are Vigilantes?
What is a subsidy?
This dance was performed by Native Americans to call forth the prophet Wovoka, who would make a new world for his people.
What is the Ghost Dance?
What are China and Ireland?
Western farmers formed this type of group, in which they would pool their money and seeds together.
What is a cooperative?
This Lakota Chief famously wrote to the Army warning them if his peoples' land was taken they would fight back.
Who is Sitting Bull?
What is a corral?
*Daily Double* This troubling act, which restricted land usage and encouraged farming in Native American tribes, was signed into law by Congress in 1887.
What is the Dawes Act?
This gentleman discovered the Comstock Lode, a lode (rich source) full of gold and silver.
Who is Henry Comstock?
American cowhands learned learned much about riding and roping from this type of Spanish / Mexican rider and cattle herder.
Who are Vaqueros?
This Nez Perce leader peacefully protested American troops by marching his people towards Canada.
Who is Chief Joseph?
This type of dance was performed by Native Americans during religious ceremonies.
What is the Sun Dance?
This gentleman famously hammered a golden spike into the rail that joined both the Union and Central Pacific railway.
Who is Leland Stanford?
In an effort to fight for better wages, Farmers and labor unions joined together to create this political party.
What is the Populist Party?
This woman, and author of A Century of Dishonor, was a fierce reformer who openly spoke out against the terrible mistreatment of Native Americans.
Who is Helen Hunt Jackson?
African Americans who moved to Kansas in search for more freedoms called themselves this.
What is The Exodusters?