vocabulary
What is the region east of the Rocky Mountains and is in the U.S. and Canada?
Great Plains
What is a heavy built oxen with backswept horns?
Buffalo
Who were the Souix?
A large group of Native American tribes that traditionally lived in the Great Plains.
What becomes big business for the settlers?
Cattle
It took about how many years to turn 400 million acres of forests and prairies in to farms? (two correct answers)
over 250 years / 30 years.
Who was the Native American leader of the Souix tribe in the late nineteenth century?
Sitting Bull
Who was a U.S. general who was killed along with all of his command by the Souix at the Battle of Little Bighorn?
George A. Cluster
What did Spanish explorers give to Native Americans?
Horses and guns.
What happened during the Battle of the Wounded Knee?
Cluster's old regiment rounded up about 150 starving and freezing Souix and took them to a camp were he ordered them to give up all of their weapons. A shot was fired from one of the sides and the soldiers open fired on them.
What made rapid settlement possible?
Federal land policy and the completion of the transcontinental railroad.
What was the Native American tribe that originated in the Great Lakes region of what is now the United States before European contact?
Missouria
What was the federal law intended to turn Native Americans into farmers and landowners by providing cooperating families with 160 acres of reservation land?
Dawes Act
What drew tens of thousands of people to the west around 1858?
Gold
Who did settlers learn how to round up, rope, brand, and care for animals from?
The neighboring Mexicans.
What years did the federal government make huge land grants to the railroads?
1850-1871
What was the series of conflicts in the western United States between Indians, American settlers, and the United States Army?
Indian Wars
What was a member of a North American people formerly inhabiting the Osage River valley in Missouri?
Osage
What tragic event occurred in 1864?
Chivington and his troops descended on the Cheyenne and Arapaho and killed over 150 people, most of them being women and children.
The demand for what skyrocketed because of the rapidly growing cities?
Beef
Up to 600,000 families took advantage of the government offer of free land called the what?
Homestead Act
What was a member of a group of North American peoples formerly living in Nebraska, and now mainly in Oklahoma?
Pawnee
What was a train route and the project of two railroad companies: the Union Pacific built from the east, and the Central Pacific built from the west?
Transcontinental Railroad
What were the differences between the Native Americans' view on land and the white settlers' view on land?
Native Americans believed land couldn’t/shouldn't be owned but the white settlers thought it should.
What made the business for cattle double?
A new and more convenient trail.
How did Oklahoma come to be known as the Sooner State?
Settlers claimed land in Oklahoma sooner than they were supposed to.