Western Frontier
A mining expedition found gold here in 1858.
What is Pikes Peak?
These were the greatest dangers of a cowboy
Tracts of land set aside for Native Americans.
What are reservations?
Farmers blamed their troubles on these groups.
What are railroad companies, eastern manufactures and banks?
Native Americans realize they don't stand a chance after this event.
What is Wounded Knee?
Towns that grow almost overnight
What are boomtowns?
Unlike boomers, this group claimed (Oklahoma) land before it was authorized to be claimed.
Who were sooners?
These animals were used for making clothing, tools, teepees and jerky.
What are buffalo?
This organization offered support to farmers and set up shops for farmers to buy products from each other.
What is the National Grange?
These three things posed as a challenge for farmers.
What are little rainfall, tornadoes and brushfires? (+flooding, plagues of bugs, strong winds and heavy snow)
The railroad that crossed the continent
What was the Transcontinental railroad?
Gave 160 acres of land to a settler that paid a filing fee and lived on the land for 5 years.
In this battle, Custer and all of his men were killed.
What is the Battle of Little Big Horn?
This group was created to appeal to the common people.
What is the Populist party?
A group of Cheyenne camped here, where they were encountered by the US military.
What is Sand Creek?
The two sets of tracks met here on May 10, 1869.
Overgrazing depleted grasslands, barbed wire and the price of cattle collapsing are a few reasons the _________ came to an end.
What is the Cattle Kingdom?
Dance that Native Americans was said to regain their former greatness and way of life.
What is the Ghost Dance?
He won the election of 1896.
Who is William McKinley?
Nomadic tribe that lived on the Great Plains of the US.
What is the Sioux?
These two companies built the Transcontinental railroad.
What were the Union and Central Pacific?
This invention changed the west.
What is barbed wire?
This was proposed to break up reservations to end Native American identification with their tribe.
What is the Dawes Act of 1887?
The Populist party accomplished these three things.
What are secret ballots, income tax and the 8 hour work day?
The US militia killed over 100 Native American men, women and children here.
What is the Sand Creek Massacre?