Native Americans
Railroads
Cowboys
Battles and Conflicts
Assimilation
100
a person or group who has not fixed home and moves from place to place and follows a food source
What is a nomad?
100
An immigrant group that worked on the transcontinental railroad, Central Pacific.
Who are the Chinese?
100
The first cowtown city that cowboys could reach on the Western Trail.
What is Dodge City?
100
Affected the West by bringing increased conflict with Native American tribes.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
100
Established the Carlisle Indian School to educate Indian children to live like the white man or to “Kill the Indian to Save the Man.”
Who is Richard Henry Pratt?
200
Chief of Nez Perce tried to escape to Canada
Who is Chief Joseph?
200
Railroad that used Irish Immigrant workers and laid the majority of the track
What is the Union Pacific?
200
Affected the west by providing cheap land to settlers traveling across the Plains.
What is the Homestead Act?
200
a religious movement among Plains Indians that promised eternal peace, a native paradise, and an end to white aggression.
What is the Ghost Dance?
200
to educate children to live like a white man
What is the goal of the Indian School?
300
They fled to avoid living on reservations
Who are Chief Joseph and Geronimo?
300
The railroad had to build through mountainous and desert terrain, taking longer to lay the track and so they laid fewer miles of track.
What is the Central Pacific Railroad?
300
Affected Western migration and brought many settlers who displaced Native tribes from their lands.
What is the Transcontinental Railroads?
300
convinced Indians to give up resistance to white laws and reservations
What is the Battle of Wounded Knee
300
to make one group of people change to become more like another group of people
What is assimilate?
400
Paiute Indians revived the spiritual movement known as the Ghost Dance.
Who is Wovoka?
400
The city where the Union Pacific Railroad and the Central Pacific Railroad joined together.
What is Promontory Point
400
because cattle were sold in cities with access to railroads to ship cattle east and make money.
What is Cattle trails ran north?
400
A battle that was considered a victory for the Indians
What is the Battle of Little Big Horn
400
"If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man, he would have made me so in the first place. He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart, he put other and different desires. Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit. It is not necessary that eagles should be Crows."
Sitting Bull, Hunkapapa Lakota Sioux
This quote reflects Sitting Bull's view of .....
What is assimilation?
500
Apache Medicine Man led the resistance, escaped, and led US troops on a manhunt.
Who is Geronimo?
500
The railroad started in Omaha Nebraska because it was the furthest west the railroads had been built.
What is the Union Pacific
500
The city that would have been a bigger meat processing center due to location and population, where the meat could be sold.
What is Kansas City?
500
the last massacre of native people and brought an end to the Plains Indians Wars, fought over a religious movement
What is the Massacre at Wounded Knee?
500
breaking up the reservation system by distributing the land to individual families
What is the Dawes Act?