What is when a time the cattle industry grew very quickly?
100
Why did westerner towns grow up next to the railroads?
What is the railroads brought food, supplies and coal.
100
Most Plains indians lived by: a) farming b) fishing c) hunting
What is hunting?
100
What did the government promise the indians who lived on the reservations?
What is they would teach them to farm and give them food and supplies?
200
What is a homesteader?
What is a person that is given government land in return for the promise to live on and farm it.
200
The open range was?
What is millions of acres of unfenced grassland belonging to the government?
200
Why was winter a dangerous time for the towns along the railroad?
What is the tracks could get covered in snow?
200
What did Plains Indians hunt?
What is buffalo?
200
How did the government break their promise?
What is they did not teach them to farm or give them food or supplies.
300
What does invasion mean?
What is entering an area in large numbers?
300
How did the railroads help the cattle boom?
What is they transported cattle to other areas of the country?
300
Today, towns grow up along highways instead of railroads. Why do you think that is so?
What is because most people travel highways to get to work or where they are going instead of using trains?
300
Why did the plains indians go to war agains the settlers?
What is because they took over the indians land?
300
What did the Dawes Act do?
What is broke up the reservations into small units of 40 to 160 acres. Those units were given to individual indians. The left over land was given to whites.
400
What does transcontinental mean?
What is across a continent
400
What ended the cattle boom?
What is too many people became cattle ranchers?
400
When did the town of DeSmet celebrate Christmas?
What is in May?
400
Why did many indians refuse to live on reservations?
What is they did not want to give up their way of life?
400
Why did the army leaders fear the Ghost Dance religion?
What is they thought it would stir up the Sioux and cause another uprising.
500
Who were the immigrant workers that laid the tracks?? Pick one - Spanish - Irish- Italian
What is Irish?
500
Why is the great plains called the "bread basket"?
What is it produces corn, wheat, soybeans and other important crops?
500
Why did the town of DeSmet get cut off from the world?
What is it got 40 feet of snow?
500
How did the government break their promise to the sioux?
What is they did not teach them to farm or provide food.
500
What did the religion The Ghost Dance believe?
What is that the old indian ways of life would return. Relatives would return as would the Buffalo?