Plains Indians
The act of Plains Indians continually moved around the Great Plains.
What is Nomadic Lifestyle?
The American belief that it was their God-given duty to settle across the whole of the American continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
The 1892 war born from conflicts surrounding the control of land and resources in the west.
What is the Johnson County War?
The first place to be called a 'Cow town'
What is Abilene?
The amount of acres given to homesteaders through the Homestead act.
what is 160 acres?
The animal that plains Indians depended on for their survival.
What are Buffalo?
The year the Transcontinental Railroad was completed
What was in 1869?
The Cheyenne Chief from sand creek reservation who led an attack on wagon trails after his people were starving from crop failure.
Who is Black Kettle?
Charles and Oliver realized there was another market for Texan cattle therefore created what Trail?
The name of the trail created by Charles and Oliver when they realised there was another market for Texan cattle.
What is Goodnight-Loving?
The invention that allowed homesteaders to access water more easily.
What are Windmill water pumps?
The way in which plains Indians believed they could contact the spirits.
What are ceremonies and dances?
The discovery of this led to an influx of migrants and lawlessness.
What is the Discovery of Gold?
The white settlers started this process in search for gold which put them in conflict with Plains Indians.
What is Mining?
John Iliff created the first _____ ______ seeing opportunities to raise cattle and began ranching near Denver in 1866.
What is the Open Range?
The amount of federal land homesteaded by 1876.
What is 6 million acers?
The act that protected Plains Indians from western expansion.
What is The Indian Appropriations Act 1851?
The amount given in loans to support the first transcontinental railroad.
What was $61 million?
The name of the agency that ran reservations, were frequently corrupt and cheated tribes out of their annuities.
what is the Bureau of Indian Affairs?
On trails they worked seasonally they rounded up cattle, branded cattle and drove cattle hundreds of miles. They looked out for sick and injured cattle and slept in the open air.
On ranches they worked all year round, slept in bunkhouses and struggled to adapt to the ranching lifestyle.
What are Cowboys?
The Mormons chose this location as it was out of the jurisdiction of America's law enforcement.
What is Salt Lake City?
The boundary between the United states and the Indian Territory which all Plains Indians had to.
What is the Permanent Indian Frontier?
As part of the reconstruction that followed the Civil War, railroads were developed across America. Name an impact that railroads had on the development of the cattle industry.
It helped develop cow towns
Increased profit margins
This person took revenge on the American government when the fort Laramie treaty was ignored. Food and supplies weren't provided on the reservations. This led to a group of wars.
Who is Little Crow?
The tactics ranchers used to prevent homesteaders from taking up claims to 'their' public land.
What is blocking?
This conflict that began in 1861 temporarily slowed the number of people moving west.
what is the American Civil War?