Vocab
Define Great Plains
What is a vast area of plains east of the rocky mountains
What laws in the United States allowed applicants to gain ownership of government land?
What were the homestead acts?
What year did the cattle industry boom as the cultures of the Plains Indians declined?
What is the 1800s
About how many years did it take to turn the first 400 million acres into flourishing farms?
What is over 250?
Around what years did Mary Elizabeth Lease leave home?
What is the 1870s?
Who is Sitting Bull?
What is the chief of the Sioux tribe
What is the term for railroads crossing a continent?
What is transcontinental?
What tribe was Zitkala-Sa born into in 1876?
What is the Sioux
How many years did the second 400 million acres take to turn into flourishing farms?
What is 30?
Why did Mary Elizabeth Lease leave home?
What is to teach school?
Define Assimilation
What is the process of taking in and fully understanding information
What is the term for the support for the concerns of ordinary people?
What is populism?
How old was Zitkala-Sa when she got sent to the Quaker school in Indiana?
What is 8 years old
How many square miles of land were given to workers for every mile of track laid in a state?
What is 10?
During the Civil War how much paper money did the United States Issue?
What is 500 million?
Who is George A. Custer?
Who is a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the Civil and American Indian Wars
What is the term for the process in which a minority group or culture comes to resemble a major group or assume their values and/or beliefs?
What is Cultural Assimilation?
What things did the Natives make using buffalo?
What are tepees, clothing, shoes, blankets, jerky, and pemmican
How many square miles of land were given to workers for every mile of track laid in a territory?
What is 20?
What was the paper money issued during the Civil War called?
What are Greenbacks?
What was the Battle of Wounded Knee?
What is a massacre of nearly 300 Lakota people by soldiers of the US Army
What act granted reservation land to Native Americans in 1887?
What is the Dawes Act?
What year was gold discovered AND what state was it discovered in?
What is 1858 in Colorado
In late 1868, how much track were workers laying down per day?
What is 8 miles?
What other currency could Greenbacks (Paper Money) not be exchanged for?
What is silver and gold?