Homestead Act
Settlers received this many acres of free land under the Homestead Act.
160 acres
The transcontinental railroad was completed in this year.
1869
This is another name for the Battle of Little Bighorn.
Custer's Last Stand
I led the Nez Perce and tried to lead my people to Canada to escape U.S. control.
Chief Joseph
Land set aside by the U.S. government for Native American tribes.
Reservation
Homesteaders built their homes out of this material, made of grass and dirt.
Sod
This ceremonial spike marked the completion of the transcontinental railroad.
The Golden Spike
The battle was fought near the Little Bighorn River in present-day this state.
Montana
I was the U.S. Army officer defeated and killed at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
George Custer
Being forced to leave one’s home or land.
Displacement
To keep the land, settlers had to live on it and improve it for this many years.
Five Years
The two railroads met at this place in Utah.
Promontory Point
Including Custer, over this many US soldiers were killed in the Battle of Little Bighorn
Over 200
We were Lakota leaders who resisted US expansion and fought in the Battle of Little Bighorn?
Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull
The process of forcing a group to give up its culture and adopt another.
Assimilation
About 270 million acres were given away, roughly this percent of all U.S. land?
10%
This railroad company started in the East and built West
Union Pacific
What was discovered in these sacred Lakota hills, increasing pressure to move tribes onto reservations.
Gold
What is the name of the Band from this weeks Music Monday?
Dire Straits
The idea of expanding westward, which the railroad supported.
Manifest Destiny
Besides forcing tribes onto smaller reservations, the Homestead Act pushed the U.S. toward these policies toward Native Americans.
Assimilation, Removal, Displacement
This railroad company started in the West and built East
Central Pacific
After the battle, the U.S. government did this, and many Native groups were forced onto reservations within a few years.
Fought harder, sent more troops.
I founded the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in 1879.
Richard Pratt
The first government-run boarding school for Native Americans, opened in Pennsylvania in 1879.
Carlisle Indian Industrial School