Moving West
These were self-appointed law keepers that often imposed their own form of justice.
What are vigilantes?
This animal gave Native Americans almost everything they needed.
What is the buffalo?
This is a Spanish word for cowhand or cowboy.
What is a vaquero?
This is a general rise in prices.
What is inflation?
Mr. Cheff has four of these living in his house.
What are birds?
These were towns with sudden bursts of economic and population growth.
What are boomtowns?
This Sioux leader fought against white settlement of the West.
Who is Sitting Bull?
Name one cow town.
What are Wichita and Dodge City?
This offered 160 acres of land free to anyone who agreed to live on and improve the land for five years.
What is the Homestead Act?
Mr. Cheff said he enjoys this when he was at the last Pep Assembly.
What are memes?
Mining underground was difficult and expensive which led many boomtowns to turn into these.
What are ghost towns?
More than 150 Native American men, women, and children were brutally killed in this event.
What is the Sand Creek Massacre?
The West was the first place to allow women this right.
What is the right to vote?
This political party was formed by groups of farmers.
What is the Populist Party?
Mr. Cheff is new to Walker Butte, however, he has taught at this number of other schools.
What is two?
This was the name of the railroad that would stretch from coast to coast.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
This legislation was intended to encourage Native Americans to become farmers.
What is the Dawes Act?
This show shaped the myths that most people believe as true today.
What is Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show?
This new invention helped with tilling the sod.
Mr. Cheff will often let you eat in class if you keep your food off the floor and do this.
What is share with Mr. Cheff?
Wyatt Earp got in a shoot out with this gang in Tombstone at the O.K. Corral.
Who is the Clankton Gang?
This promised Native Americans that their lands would be protected if they settled permanently and gave Native tribes a large reservation in the Black Hills of South Dakota.
What is the First Treaty of Fort Laramie?
This was the busiest cattle drive trail in the West.
What is the Chisholm Trail?
These former slaves compared their movement to that of the Hebrews in Egypt.
Who are the Exodusters?
If you ever find yourself on Mr. Cheff's bad side this neat trick will often times lessen or sometimes even eliminate the punishment.
What is telling the truth.