R.R. & Its Impact
The location where the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad was celebrated.
What is Promontory Point, Utah?
How many acres of land were received according to the Homestead Act of 1862?
What is 160 acres.
Name the Sioux warrior who fought at the Battle of Rosebud Creek and the Battle of Little Bighorn and died in 1877?
Who is Crazy Horse.
How many buffalo were decimated in the 1870's?
What is 9 million.
Name the only immigrant group barred from immigrating to the U.S.?
Who are the Chinese.
In what year was the Transcontinental Railroad completed?
What is 1869.
What was the first big business out west?
What is railroading.
The Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868) set aside what area as sacred to the Sioux?
What is the Black Hills.
The Indian Appropriation Act of 1871 defined native people as what?
What is a "ward".
The Indian religion that taught that the buffalo would return and dead Indians would come back to life.
What is the Ghost Dance?
Name one reason way Chinese railroad workers were more reliable than other workers?
What is their diet made them sick less often
Worked longer hours for less pay.
What is 6 months.
Immediately after the Battle of Little Bighorn where did Sitting Bull take his followers?
What is to Canada.
Why did Lt. Col. George Custer go into the Black Hills officially in 1874?
What is to scout for a fort location.
While all other bodies of the 7th cavalry were mutilated, what happened to George Custer?
What is his eardrums were punctured.
The Union and Central Pacific received a fixed allotment of what for every mile of track laid?
What is land.
African Americans who left the deep South for a new life in Kansas were called?
What are "Exodusters".
He attacked not knowing the size of the encampment.
This law took reservation land away from Indian nations and forced assimilation?
What is the Dawes Act.
What did Sitting Bull predict that became reality about how he would die?
What is at the hands of his own people (Indian police).
Chinese R.R. workers who worked with dynamite on the side of dangerous mountainside were called ______________ workers.
What is "basket".
Name one restriction of the Homestead Act?
What is owners must be at least 21.
What event signal the end of the Indian Wars?
What is the Massacre at Wounded Knee.
In what year did the greatest victory for the Sioux occur?
What is 1876.
What ultimately happened to the Nez Perce and Chief Joseph?
He was forced to surrender after getting less than 50 miles from freedom in Canada. Some escaped to Canada, but a majority including the Chief were sent to a reservation in Indian Territory (Oklahoma)