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He was the lieutenant colonel in the US cavalry who was killed at the Battle of Little Big Horn.
Who is George Custer?
Farming of the Great Plains resulted in too much of this which contributed to dust storms.
What is soil erosion?
These are bones, hides, and other parts of animals that were not eaten.
What are by-products?
Nevada silver and gold mine
What is Comstock Lode?
Gave land to the individual Native for self-support
What is Dawes Act?
Along with Gustavus Swift, he built a large and efficient meatpacking plant in Chicago.
Who is Philip Armour?
The decline of this was very damaging to Natives' way of life.
What are buffalo herds?
Three groups of people who would likely have conflict with the cattlemen
Who were homesteaders, Natives, and sheepherders?
What is the Bland-Allison Act?
Oliver Kelley's farmers' orgnaization
What is the Grange?
The Sioux medicine man who inspired the Indian attack at Little Big Horn.
Who is Sitting Bull?
This was the last area of the United States to be settled.
What is Oklahoma?
Three jobs found on the cattle drive
What are point man, trail boss, and wrangler?
Source of gold in the Black Hills
What is Homestake Mine?
Gave 160 acres to settlers
What is the Homestead Act?
They illegally staked land claims in Oklahoma.
This type of house was a practical dwelling on the Plains due to the ability to keep the interior cool in the summer and warm in the winter.
What are sod houses?
Three problems likely to trouble the cattle drives...
What are taxation by Natives, farm fences, and stampedes?
Westerners wanted the government to use this to back its money supply
An invention that helped the prairie farmers pump their water from a well
What is a windmill?
He invented the first practical barbed wire.
Who is Joseph Glidden?
An inexpensive postal innovation that brought mail to the remote farmers.
What is rural free delivery?
The three trails followed by cowboys on the cattle drives.
What are Chisholm, Goodnight-Loving, and Sedalia Trails?
After the Civil War, the United States went to this standard.
What is the gold standard?
These three groups "conquered" the American frontier.
Who are miners, cowboys, and homesteaders?