Indian Affairs
Wavoka and the Ghost Dance preparations in 1890 led to 200 Indian deaths at this place.
Wounded Knee, South Dakota
This Homestead Act allowed for 160 acre land parcels to be claimed by 21 year olds from this year to this year.
1862 and 1976
These two lines eventually connected the nation.
Central Pacific and Union Pacific
Most cattle drives started and ended in these states.
Texas and Kansas
Trapper, soldier and Indian fighter this man served as a key western guide for many such as John C. Frémont.
Kit Carson
In 1876 Custer's Last Stand at Little Bighorn to remove Indians from the Black Hills due to gold was met by this Indian leader.
Sitting Bull
This legislation prompted the privatization of Indian lands and eventual transfer of lands to white Americans.
Dawes Severalty Act
This was the site of the final union of transcontinental rails symbolized by the golden spike.
Promontory Point (Summit)
It took on average this many cowboys to move a herd of 3000 cattle.
12
This leader of the United States Geological Society warned of overuse of lands west of the 100th Meridian.
John Wesley Powell
Nez Perce leader who surrendered at Bear Paw, Montana in 1877 after 1,400 miles of battles while retreating.
Chief Joseph
People who rushed after land in the Plains of Oklahoma and other states were nicknamed this for moving before the gun sounded.
Sooners
Wealthy railroaders Crocker, Stanford, Huntington, and Hopkins were known as this.
The Big Fout
This invention by Joseph Glidden helped cattle herd owners maintain boundaries.
Barbed Wire
This Swiss immigrant found gold at his mill in 1848.
John Sutter
This Pennsylvania school specialized in reforming Indian children by "killing the Indian and saving the man."
Carlisle School
Some Sodbusters left the Plains saying "in God we trusted, in Kansas we busted" due to these conditions.
Drought, grasshoppers, mortgages.
Through what mountains did the Central Pacific Railroad blast tunnels?
Sierra Nevada
This famous trail was 1,000 miles long and ended in Abilene, KS.
Chisholm Trail
Blacksmith who developed the steel plow in 1837
John Deere
This large yearly meeting served as a way for trappers and Indians to sell their wares and to seek entertainment in the far west.
Rendezvous
Term for western land as determined by Stephen Long's 1819 scientific expedition.
Great American Desert
Most 19th century railroad laborers were from these two countries.
Ireland and China
These three items helped cowboys shade their heads, protect their legs from cactus, and get into stirrups quickly.
Large hats, pointed boots, chaps.
Survey team of the upper Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean 1804-1806.
Lewis and Clark