Cattle Round Up
Army vs. Indians
Native Americans
Going West
Misc.
100
Cattle were allowed to graze anywhere on the prairie.
What is "Open Range"
100
This motivated White Americans to take land from the Native Americans.
What is greed, gold, land hungry, or overcrowding in the East.
100
This means the Native Americans moved from place to place without a permanent home.
What is "nomadic".
100
This is the reason that many white Southerners when west after the Civil War.
What is the South was destroyed.
100
This Ohio native invented barbed wire.
Who is Joseph Glidden.
200
This motivated western ranchers to raise more cattle after The Civil War.
What is the great demand for beef in the North.
200
This Native American tribe defeated Gen. Custer.
What is The Sioux.
200
This animal was essential for the survival of the Plains Indians.
What is the buffalo.
200
The Transcontinental Railroad did this for the United States.
What is linked the East and the West.
200
On the prairie settlers many times lived in sod houses, for this reason.
What is there wasn't enough wood to build houses.
300
This invention allowed farmers and ranchers to close off their land to others.
What is "barbed wire".
300
It was along this river in Montana, where Gen. Custer and his 7th Cavalry were wiped out.
What is The Little Big Horn.
300
Name three ways the Plains Indians used a large cow like animal that they hunted on the prairie.
What is for food, shelter, clothing, and tools.
300
This motivated African Americans to move west.
What is they wanted to get out of the South.
300
This was one of the Sioux chiefs that defeated Custer.
Who is Crazy Horse.
400
This put an end to the cattle drives.
What is extending railroad to the west.
400
This is how the U.S. Army defeated the Plains Indians.
What is by slaughtering the Buffalo.
400
These two diseases killed many Native Americans because they didn't have any immunity towards them.
What is Small Pox, Measles, and Chicken Pox.
400
These were two reasons Americans wanted to move west.
What is overcrowding in the East and gold discoveries.
400
Dressing and worshipping like white people were examples of this.
What is "Americanization."
500
On the open range, this is how cattle were marked to show ownership.
What is branding.
500
The Plains Indians were forced to move to reservations for this reason.
What is to confine them, or to take them off good land.
500
This is who brought the diseases that killed many Native Americans.
What is The White Settlers.
500
This is why White Americans thought it was O.K. to take Indian lands.
What is they weren't white or Christians.
500
This term means the total destruction of a race of people.
What is "genocide."
M
e
n
u