The grassland extending through the west-central portion of the United States.
What is Great Plains
100
Legislation aimed to "Americanize" the Native Americans. The act broke up the reservations and gave some of the reservation land to individual Americans.
What is Dawes Act
100
This piece of legislation offered 160 acres of land free to any citizen or intended citizen who was head of the household.
What is the Homestead Act
100
This organizations purpose was to provide a social outlet and an educational forum for isolated farm families.
What is Grange
100
First African-American man to hold the World Heavyweight Champion boxing title.
What is Jack Johnson
200
This document was an agreement between the Sioux & the Europeans in which the Sioux agreed to live on a reservation along the Missouri River.
What is Treaty of Fort Laramie
200
300 unarmed Native Americans including several children were slaughtered during this battle that brought the Indian Wars to an end.
What is The Battle of Wounded Knee
200
African-Americans who moved from the post-Reconstruction South to Kansas.
What is Exodusters
200
She was the founder of the Patrons of Husbandry, an organization for farmers.
What is Oliver Hudson Kelley
200
The first African-American appointed to the Supreme Court.
What is Thurgood Marshall
300
Leader of the Hunkpapa Sioux and never signed it.
What is Sitting Bull
300
Sturdy, short-tempered breeds accustomed to the dry grasslands of Southern Spain.
What is Longhorns
300
These were havens for snakes, insects and other pets. Additionally, they were freestanding houses by stacking blocks of prairie.
What is Soddy
300
These organizations lectures from town to town to educate people about topics such as lower interest rates on loans and government control over railroads and banks.
What is Farmers' Alliances
300
First African-American ever elected to the US Senate.
What is Hiram Revels
400
In 1874, this army colonial reported that the black hills had gold "From the grass roots down" a gold rush was on.
What is George Armstrong Custer
400
The major cattle route from San Antonio, Texas, through Oklahoma to Kansas.
What is Chisholm Trail
400
This legislation gave the federal government land to the states to help finance agricultural colleges, and the Hatch Act of 1887.
What is Morrill Act
400
The movement of the people
What is Populism
400
First African-American to win an Academy Award
What is Hattie McDaniel
500
A plan in which Native Americans would give up their beliefs and way of life and become part of white culture.
What is Assimilation
500
The overland transport of the animals spear-headed by the Cowboys.
What is Long Drive
500
These were enormous single-crop spreads of 15,000-50,000 acres.
What is Bonanza Farms
500
A monetary system in which the government wold give citizens either gold or silver in exchange for paper currency with both metals.