Vocabulary
What are Reservations?
Government land given to Native Americans
Joseph McCoy created what, where southern and northern buyers could meet up?
A Market
How many Americans were at the Battle of Little Bighorn
264
What was the name of the system that connected the East to the West?
Transcontinental Railroad
Why did Farmers turn to Dry Farming?
Lack of Water in the Great Plains
Where did Boomtowns pop up?
By Mines/Mining towns
How did Cyrus McCormick make his fortune?
Designing, building and selling Farm Equipment
What did the Native Americans use the Buffalo for?
Food and Clothing
Who built the Transcontinental Railroad?
The Union Pacific Railway and Central Pacific Railway
Who were the Exodusters?
African American farmers in Kansas
What Cattle got it's names from its extremely longhorns?
Texas Longhorn
Who invented Barbed Wire?
Joseph Glidden
Who was the Sioux Leader at the Battle of Little Bighorn?
Sitting Bull
What was the ratio of men to women in the Boomtowns?
75 to 1
What was the fight over the Range Wars?
Access to Water and Land
What did the homesteaders have to do to receive the Land from the Homestead Act?
Paid small registration fee and promise to live for 5 years
Who invented the Steel Plow?
John Deere
What was the name of the Treaty which accepted Indian claims to much of the Great Plains and allowed Americans to build forts and roads to travel across Indian Homelands?
Treat of Fort Laramie
What was the name of the towns that popped up around successful mines?
Boomtowns
What was the Chisholm Trail?
Cattle Drive San Antonio Texas to Abilene Kansas
17 million
Where did George Custer's Last Stand take place?
Battle of Little Big Horn
Who were the two Native American women who spoke out against the treatment of their people?
Sarah Winnemucca and Helen Hunt Jackson
What did they find at the Comstock Lode?
Silver and Gold
Why were the Great Plains called the Breadbasket of the World?
Major producer of Wheat for the World