Trick or Treat
What is a treaty?
Areas of federal land set aside for Native Americans.
What is a reservation?
A large deposit of precious ore.
What is bonanza?
This competition was between large ranchers, small ranchers and farmers.
What are range wars?
The increase in the move west in the United States is known as this amongst historians.
What is westward expansion?
This treaty was the first major agreement signed with Northern Plains nations in Wyoming in 1851.
What is the Treaty of Fort Laramie?
In 1866, this chief and a group of Sioux ambushed 81 calvary troops, killing them all.
Who is Crazy Horse?
Western communities that grew quickly because of the increase in mining.
What are boomtowns?
These gave ranchers exclusive control of both water and the land around it.
What are range rights?
A large group of Southern African Americans who settles in western lands in the late 1800s.
What are the Exodusters?
In 1887, this legislation was passed by Congress to split up Native American reservation lands among individual Natives and promised them citizenship.
What is the Dawes Allotment Act?
In 1874, this Lieutenant was the lead in forcing the Sioux to move and sell their native land.
Who is Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer?
These were a mixed breed between the English and the Spanish cattle.
What is the Texas Longhorn?
These acts were passed by the federal government in 1862 and 1864 giving railroad companies loans and large land grants, which could be sold to pay for construction costs.
What are the Pacific Railway Acts?
This advancement in technology crossed the continental United States, connecting the East and West.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
The United States government wanted Southern Plains natives to move off of their lands in this 1867 treaty.
What is the Treaty of Medicine Lodge?
He was a Sioux leader who protested the demands of the United States government to protect his native territory.
Who is Sitting Bull?
This is known as public land throughout the Western territory.
What is an open range?
This act granted more that 17 million acres of federal land to states, with a requirement that each state sell land and use the money to build colleges to teach agriculture and engineering.
What is the Morrill Act?
This was a system of messengers on horseback to carry mail between relay stations on a route about 2000 miles long.
What is the Pony Express?
This treaty created areas of federal land set aside for Native Americans.
What is the Treaty of 1861?
This battle was the worst defeat the United States had suffered in the West, and the Sioux's last major victory.
What is the the Battle of Little Bighorn?
These ranch hands helped to care for cattle and horse.
What are vaqueros?
This act gave government-owned land to small farmers who were a United States citizen or planned to become one in an exchange for a small registration fee.
What is the Homestead Act?
In 1853, another agreement was signed by several Southern Plains nations in this treaty in Nebraska.
What is the treaty of Fort Atkinson?