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A Canadian miner that discovered the richest silver mine in American history.
Who is Henry Comstock?
Swarms of green bugs that torment the people living in the plains.
What are Grasshoppers?
A farming tool, most famously invented by John Deere in 1837, that uses a polished steel blade and moldboard to cut and turn the soil
What is a Steel Plow?
Americans ¨God given right¨ to extend from the Atlantic to the pacific (move west).
What was Manifest Destiny?
Region where the Wheat crop was mostly grown.
What is the Wheat belt?
_____ tricked Captain William Fetterman and 80 soldiers into pursuing what they thought was a small raiding party.
Who was Crazy Horse?
temperature of over 100 degrees, leading to fires called ____
What were prairie fires?
An agricultural invention, most famously perfected by Cyrus McCormick in 1831, that mechanized the process of cutting and gathering standing grain
What is a Mechanical Reaper?
The region of the Great Plains where the primary crop grown was wheat.
What was the Wheat Belt?
Was the most used method, in which farmers would plant seeds deep in the ground.
What was Dry Farming?
The chief that led the uprising, but only wanted to fight soldiers and not civilians.
_____ was a simple, inexpensive dwelling built in the treeless prairies of North America during the 19th century by settlers who lacked timber for log cabins
What were Sod houses?
A steam-powered vehicle that used the force of expanding steam to move heavy loads and power farm equipment
What is a Steam Tractor?
What was a nickname for farmers that plowed the Plains, used a new method of farming to grow wheat in the dry environment?
What were Sodbusters?
Massive farms that created large profits.
What is a Bonanza farm?
Chiefs that were nomadic and had fought rival tribes for their hunting grounds, they did not want to give it up to settlers.
Who was Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, and Sitting Bull?
There was one major thing needed the the plains they got this by. Drilling deep wells to gain this mineral, which operated by hand-pumping.
What is Water?
A piece of farm equipment that separates the grain from the stalk and husks of harvested crops like wheat, oats, and barley.
What is a Threshing Machine?
Government program that allowed people to file for a homestead of up to 160 acres for a $10 registration fee, and once you had lived on the property for 5 years you received the title.
What was the Homestead Act?
what was the first cow town?
What is Sedalia, MO.
Called the plains “Great American Desert” and believed it was nearly impossible to settle.
Who was Major Stephen Long?
what season causes extreme cold, and blizzards for the Great Plains?
What is winter?
An agricultural machine that both cut grain (like wheat or corn) and bound it into bundles of sheaves
What is a Mechanical Binder?
Native americans were _______, that followed buffalo.
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What were nomads?
self-appointed volunteers who would punish wrongdoers, were formed as a way to police boomtowns.
Who are Vigilance committees?