Cattle Drives
Men who conducted the Cattle Drives.
Who were cowboys?
A city with a sudden rise in population (usually from the Gold Rush).
What is a Boom Town?
Native Americans who followed buffalo.
What are nomads?
The wheat-dominant agricultural part of the Great Plains.
What was the Wheat Belt?
"God given right to expand from sea to sea".
What was Manifest Destiny?
The act of blocking Cow Trails.
What are Range Wars?
Virginia City.
What is an example of a boom town?
Yearly payments from the government.
What is an annuity?
Farmers who plowed the plains.
Who were sodbusters?
"Rain follows the plow."
What was a common phrase that people used to convince people to move west?
Land owned by the government for cattle to roam free.
What is an Open Range?
Mine found by Henry Comstock. Mine was rich in silver, and he sold it before they found out. (Richest silver mine).
What was the Comstock Lode?
Chief Little Crow.
Who led a major Dakota uprising?
Farmers planted their seeds deep in the ground so they could reach water.
What was dry farming?
A Hispanic neighborhood (Spanish name).
What were Barrios?
The first Cow Town (1866).
What was Sedalia, Missouri?
A mining technique that was the most effective and widespread during the California Gold Rush.
What was Hydraulic Mining?
Settlers searching for gold on Native reservations.
What was the cause of most conflicts between Natives and settlers?
Wheat farms that covered acres of land and made the owner lots of money.
What were Bonanza Farms?
A big ranch that were sometimes thousands of miles long (Spanish name).
What was a Hacienda?
Railroads, East in need of meat and Longhorns in the Great Plains.
What were the causes for the high prices of beef?
Citizens who took acts into their own hands and protected others without help of the law.
What is a Vigilance Committee?
Red Cloud, Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull.
Who were the Natives involved in the Red Cloud's War?
Steel plow, steam tractor, mechanical reaper, etc.
What were some inventions that helped farmers in the 1800s?
Mexican cowboys (Spanish name).
Who were Vaqueros?