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Mining Vocab
Native Americans
Gold rush
George A. Custer
100
What year the Treaty of Fort Laramie signed?
1868
100
What was the Comstock Lode?
When prospectors found silver in Carson River valley of present-day Nevada.
100
What was a responsability of Native American women?
To prepare Buffalo hides
100
Where did George A. Custer find gold in 1874?
The Black Hills
100
When did George A. Custer find gold that started the gold rush?
1874
200
What year did Congress pass the Dawes Act?
1887
200
What is placer mining?
Where minerals are found in loose sand and gravel.
200
What was one responsability of Native American men?
To hunt Buffalo
200
How many years after the Treaty of Fort Laramie was signed that miners began searching the Black Hills for gold?
4 Years
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Where did George A. Custer find gold in 1874?
The Black Hills
300
What year Did the Battle of wounded knee take place?
1890
300
What is Hydraulic Mining?
When water is used under high pressure to blast away dirt, exposing the minerals underneath.
300
What was one responsability of Native American children?
To learn proper behavior and culture from stories and myths.
300
Who was George A. Custer during the gold rush?
A miner who discovered gold in the Black Hills
300
When was Custer's last stand?
In 1876
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What year Was Custer's last stand?
1876
400
What is Hard-rock Mining?
When you dig tunnels along the veins of gold and breaking of tons of ore, hard and dangerous work.
400
What was pemmican?
A stable food that Native Americans made from dried meat, berries and fat.
400
Who protested the encroachment during the gold rush?
The Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho
400
What was Custer's last stand?
When he and his troops searched little Big Horn river and the Native Americans took out George and all his troops.
500
What year Did the California gold rush happen?
1849
500
What Was the California gold rush?
When gold was discovered in the California valley Mining caves.
500
What did the Native Americans make tepees out of?
Buffalo hides and skins
500
When did the gold rush start?
in 1874
500
Where did Custer's last stand take place?
In little Big Horn River