Say Who???
______ discovered silver ore at the Comstock Lode, NV.
Henry Comstock
Indian leader who led Colonel Fetterman and soldiers into a deadly ambush
Crazy Horse
The ______ line that established Sedalia MO
MT&K
I am a town that grew up almost overnight
Boomtowns
Which act gave Native Americans land if they assimilated to American culture and embraced private ownership of land?
Indian Removal Act
won the 1892 election
Grover Clevland
Indian leader who led a series of raids that became known as the Apache Wars
Geronimo
The railroad companies divided the country into ________ in 1883
4 time zones
I am an abandoned boomtown
Ghost town
______ regulated land rights on tribal territories within the United States. The law authorized the President to break up reservation land, which was held in common by the members of a tribe, into small allotments to be parceled out to individuals
Dawes Act
Who was known as the Great Commoner and representative for the Populist party in the election that took place in 1896?
William McKinley
This is a ceremony that we believe will bring back the buffalo, destroy the pale face and was an act of rebellion and unity of our nations
Ghost Dance
The transcontinental railroad connected the __________
East and west
I am where gold was first discovered
California, Sutter's Mill
This ACT of all the freed slaves leaving the South for the West was known as ______. This resulted in the freedmen who took part of this movement being known as _________.
Exodus
The Exodusters.
was hired by the Kansas Pacific Railroad to prevent buffalo from blocking railroads
William Cody, aka Buffalo Bill
First we moved them from here to here
East of the Mississippi to West of the Mississippi
The first railroad to cross the United States was the…
and it impact the natural environment by
Transcontinental Railroad
led to the destruction of mountains with explosives
People who took the law into their own hands and handing the rustlers when the law failed to protect their towns, trading routes and cattle/goods
vigilante
The farmers ACTed in order to maintain their finances and families by creating local stores where they would trade with each other. They blamed ______, _______ and ______ for their plight during this time period.
Railroad men, Manufacturers and Bankers.
I am the everyday common joe
Populist Party
DOUBLE JEP!!!
During which Plains Indian War were General George Custer and his Seventh Cavalry overtaken and killed
During which Plains Indian War did the Seventh Cavalry slaughter BigFoot and several hundred innocent Sioux Indian
Little Bighorn
Wounded Knee
I used Chinese to build me
I used Irish and African Americans
Central
Pacific
I got this here land through financial aid or land grant from the government. It was called a ____ you should really look into it.
subsidy
This ACT caused INFLATION
the crusade for Free Silver