Vocab
a heavily built wild ox with backswept horns, found mainly in the Old World tropics.
What is a Buffalo?
A United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the Indian Wars.
Who is George A. Custer?
The Kiowa and Comanche engaged in six years of raiding.
What was the Red River war.
another term for the Dakota people or their language.
Who are the Sioux?
The main reason that people started rushing to the west.
What was the Gold Rush?
A train route across the United States that was finished in 1869
What is a Transcontinental Railroad?
U.S. Army commander in the West, who also caused the Massacre at sand creek.
Who is General S. R. Curtis ?
Many farmers were trapped in a vicious economic cycle, prices for crops were falling, and farmers often mortgaged their farms so that they could buy more land and produce more crops.
What was the start of Populism?
A Native American tribe that originated in the Great Lakes region of what is now the United States before European contact.
Who are the Missouria?
A trail that ran directly through Sioux hunting grounds in the Bighorn Mountains.
What is The Bozeman Trail?
a semiarid region E of the Rocky Mountains, in the U.S. and Canada. See more
What are the Great Plains?
A Native American leader of the Sioux tribe in the late nineteenth century.
Who is the Sitting Bull?
An attack on November 29, 1864, that killed over 150 inhabitants, mostly Native American women and children.
What was the Massacre at Sand Creek?
a member of a group of North American peoples formerly living in Nebraska and now mainly in Oklahoma.
Who are The Pawnee?
10 to 14 hours a day on a ranch and 14 or more on the trail.
What are the hours of a cowboy?
A federal law intended to turn Native Americans into farmers and landowners by providing cooperating families.
What is the Dawes Act?
an officer in the United States Army during the American Civil War and the subsequent Red Cloud's War on the Great Plains.
Who was Captain William J. Fetterman?
Farmers were overextended with debts and loans, Railroad construction had expanded faster than markets, the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad went bankrupt.
What was the Panic of 1893
A member of a Native American people formerly inhabiting western Missouri and later southeast Kansas.
Who are the Osage?
A treaty that entailed the Sioux live on a reservation along the Missouri River.
What was the Treaty of Fort Laramie?
The series of conflicts in the western United States between Indians, American settlers, and the United States Army.
What were the Indian Wars?
The 25th president of the United States.
Who is William McKinley?
The Sioux and Cheyenne held a sun dance, during which Sitting Bull had a vision of soldiers and some Native Americans falling from their horses.
What was Custer's Last Stand?
a Native American tribe from the Great Plains of the present-day United States.
Who were the Comanche?
This Act gave federal land to the states to help finance agricultural colleges
What is The Morrill Act.