Cowboys
Indians
Miners
Ranchers
Trains and travel
100
first major agreement between U.S. Government and American Indians.
What is the Treaty of Fort Laramie?
100
large deposit of precious ore
What is a bonanza?
100
lean and tough with horns up to five feet across
What is a Texas Longhorn?
100
first system to move information and goods east to west
What is the Pony Express?
200
one of the earliest most popular routes
What is the Chisholm Trail?
200
federal land set aside for American Indians
What is reservation system?
200
miners were fooled into believing gold was here starting a gold rush to Colorado
What is Pikes Peak
200
public land used for grazing
What is open range?
200
put Pony Express out of business
What is the telegraph?
300
herding cattle to market
What is a cattle drive?
300
Agreement with Southern Plains Indians to move off their lands
What is the Treaty of Medicine Lodge?
300
The real deal, this find produced over $500 million in gold and silver over 20 years
What is Comstock Lode?
300
barbed wire which allowed ranchers to fence off water and grazing lands led to this
What are range wars?
300
passage gave corporations land and loans to pay for this
What is Pacific Railway Acts?
400
city at the end of the road
What is Abilene or Dodge City?
400
worst defeat U.S. army suffered in the West
What is Battle of Little Bighorn?
400
sprang up when a mine was opened
What is a boomtown?
400
established a market where northern buyers and southern ranchers could meet
Who is Joseph McCoy?
400
Transcontinental Railroad was completed here when this happened
What is a golden spike at Promontory, Utah?
500
famous for keeping peace in cattle towns
Who is Wyatt Earp (law officials)
500
last major event of more than 25 years of war on the Great Plains
What is Massacre at Wounded Knee?
500
worries about safety and pay led miners to do this
What is form labor unions?
500
became known as Ranching Queen of Montanna
Who is Elizabeth Collins?
500
collapse of railroad owner Jay Cook's banking firm helped start this
What is the Panic of 1873?
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