Native American Life
This animal was most important to Native Americans on the Great Plains.
What is the buffalo?
This organization was created by farmers coming together to build power and educate themselves.
What is the Grange?
The reason for passing the Pacific Railway Act.
What is to authorize the building of the Transcontinental railroad?
Name of one of the chiefs who led the Sioux against the US Army.
Who are Red Cloud, Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull?
This is the name for a settlement that quickly sprung up when gold was discovered in an area.
What is a boomtown?
This is the name for a group of people with no permanent home.
What are nomads?
These two groups made up most of the support of the Populist Party.
Who are farmers and factory workers?
The goal of the Dawes Act.
What is to break up Native American tribe and have Natives give up traditional ways and assimilate.
This man led his cavalry unit to their demise in the Battle of Little Bighorn.
Who is Colonel George Custer?
This is the nickname for people who cheated during the Oklahoma Land Rush and went to find land before they were allowed.
Who are Sooners?
This is the name for areas of land the Federal Government put aside for Native Americans to live on.
What are reservations?
Which two businesses did farmers blame for many of their problems?
What are banks and railroad companies?
The amount of land promised to settlers under the Homestead Act.
What is 160 acres?
This religious ceremony was performed by the Sioux in order to pray for white settlers to leave the Great Plains and for the return of the buffalo.
What is the Ghost Dance?
This group of people is represented by the Tin Man in the book The Wizard of Oz.
Name two things that led to an end to the traditional lifestyle of Native Americans on the Great Plains.
What are:
The killing off of the buffalo?
The Transcontinental Railroad?
The Dawes Act/Reservations?
Native Boarding Schools?
This man was the Populist Party candidate for president in 1896. He lost to William McKinley.
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
This led the US Government to break the Ft. Laramie Treaty.
What is the discovery of gold in the Black Hills, land promised to the Sioux?
This massacre of Sioux men, women, and children led to the end of large scale resistance to US Government policies.
What is Wounded Knee
Freedman who moved to Kansas in order to escape segregation and persecution in the South.
Who are the Exodusters?
Name three parts of the buffalo and what they were used by Native Americans for.
What are:
Meat: to eat
Hide: for clothing
Bone: tools, arrowheads
What are:
Lower Interest Rates
8 Hour Work Day
Graduated Income Tax
Gov. Regulation of Railroads
Free Coinage of Silver
Direct Election of Senators
These were three conditions that settlers had to follow to get land under the Homestead Act.
What are farm the land for five years, build a road and dig a well?
These were two purposes of Indian boarding schools like the Carlisle school in Pennsylvania.
What are:
Forced Assimilation of Native youth.
Teaching vocational(Job) skills.
Destruction of traditional Native culture.
To provide a Western education.
a.This is what settlers of the plains often made their houses from and why they used this material.
b. The fuel source these settlers used to heat their homes.
a. What is sod, because there was not lumber readily available to build with.
b. What are cow patties/buffalo chips.