Mining and Railroads
A rich vein of ore
What is a lode?
Where did Native Americans live and store their belongings?
What were travois and tepees?
The moving of cattle over long distances
What were cattle drives?
People who had already sneaked onto the land on the Plains
Who were sooners?
These people were self-appointed law keepers
Who were vigilantes?
The treaty where the government asked to stop following buffalo in return to protect their lands
What is the Fort Laramie Treaty?
A settlement at the end of a cattle trail
What were cow towns?
Who won the presidential election of 1896?
Who was William McKinley?
The time when railroads raced to lay tracks to the mines and boomtowns
What was the Railroad boom?
What was land that was set aside for Native Americans to live on?
What were reservations?
The Spanish word for cowhand or cowboy
Who were Vaqueros?
Plains farmers
Who were sodbusters?
The railroad line that spread the continent
What is the transcontinental railroad?
Who were the Nez Perces, Navajos, and The Apaches?
Who were Native American tribes?
The region that was dominated by the cattle industry
What was the cattle kingdom?
A surface layer of Earth in which grasses tangle with soil
What is sod?
Grants of land or money
What are subsidies?
The act where Congress tried to turn Native Americans into farmers
What was The Dawes Act?
What were unfenced land called?
What were open ranges?
Who were the people that acquired free land from the government?
Who were homesteaders?