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Cultures Clashing
Restrictions on Indians
Settling the Great Plains
Challenges
Miscellaneous
100
the most important resource of the plains indians?
What is Buffalo
100
who introduced horses into North America?
Who is the Spainiards
100
they were the first cowboys?
What is Mexicans
100
Homesteaders lived in these buildings?
What is Soddies, or dugouts
100
backing of paper money with silver and gold was known as what?
What is bimetallism
200
how were indian children taught good behavior?
What is elders passed them down in myths and legends
200
someone fired a shot here that cuased a battle that ended with more than 300 dead Sioux, mostly unarmed
What is Wounded Knee
200
why was there more demand for beef after the Civil War?
What is growing cities
200
the act that opened up Agricultural colleges
What is Morrill Act
200
defeated Bryan in the election and supported the gold standard?
Who is William McKinley
300
what were the two most powerful attractions that lured settlers west?
What is gold and free land
300
he reported gold in the Black Hills, which led to settlers invading the territory
Who is Custer
300
the overland transport of cows to the railroads, sometimes hundreds of miles?
What is Long Drive
300
farmers organized into this movement which spent most of its time fighting the railroads?
What is The Grange
300
who issued the "Cross of Gold" speech?
What is William Jennings Bryan
400
200 Cheyenne and Arapaho killed by an Army commander who wanted no piece till the Indians suffered more
What is Sand Creek Massacre
400
blacks who left the post-Reconstruction South for Kansas?
What is Exodusters
400
name two platform issues of the Populists Party?
What is graduated income tax, federal loan program and a 8-hour workday
400
huge farms created by the railroads that only harvested a single crop?
What is Bonanza Farms
500
what was the purpose of the Dawes Act?
What is assimilation of the Indians aided by the breaking up of reservations
500
Custer belonged to what regiment?
What is 7th Cavalry
500
settlers who illegally squatted in Oklahoma to claim new land?
What is Sooners
500
great american speaker who unsuccessfully tried to be President; support gold and silver backing of paper money?
Who is William Jennings Bryan
500
what did Cyrus McCormick invent?
What is Mechanical Reaper