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The main source of food, shelter, and clothing for Native Americans.
What is buffalo?
This Act was passed in 1862, and gave away 160 acres of free land to any individual willing to live on/farm the land for 5 years and pay a small filing fee.
What is the Homestead Act?
Where Natives were pushed onto designated areas of land and forced to live.
What is a reservation?
In the flat plains, freestanding homes made from the land.
What is a sod house?
Factors that cause people to leave a place.
What are push factors?
What year was the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad?
What is 1869?
The movement of people from one place to another.
What is migration?
Public lands not belonging to anyone.
What is open range?
These sprang up all over the California, Colorado, and Nevada due to prospectors looking for gold.
What are boom towns?
A line separating areas of denser settlement from unsettled territories.
What is the frontier?
This Sioux Chief refused to leave the Black Hills and inspires his people to resist.
Who is Sitting Bull?
The type of cattle that cowboys from Texas drove north to Chicago
What are Longhorns?
Construction began on building the Union Pacific line to go out west from this midwestern city.
What is Omaha, Nebraska?
This Act aimed to "americanize" Native Americans.
Private land enclosed by barbed wire fences where cattle would graze.
What year was the California Gold Rush?
1849
This lasted about 25 years while troops were stationed in the West to protect settlers.
What are the "Indian Wars"?
This conflict occurred over a land dispute in the Black Hills of the Dakotas. It is also known as "Custer's Last Stand". 267 U.S. Army were killed.
What is the Battle of Little Big Horn?