Mining
This is the main state for mining?
What is California?
These are grants of land or money
What are Subsidies?
These are small sleds
what are Travois
This is unfenced land
What is open range?
Settlers who acquired free land
Homesteaders
Silver
This is the Railroad that spans the continent
These are cone shaped tents
What a tee-pees
this is moving cattle across the land
What is cattle drive
surface layers of earth with roots of grass
What is sod
This year was the gold rush
What is 1849?
This is how railroads changed the west
new towns and population growth
this animal was used for mean and tread and peoples survival
What is Buffalo
Spanish word for cowboy
Another name for plains farmers
sodbusters
These are self appointed law keepers
Who are vigilantes?
This is work done by hand
What is Manual?
This is land set aside for native americans to live on
what are reservations
Settlement at the end of a cattle trail
Cow Town
The first people as part of the oklahoma land rush
the name for towns that pop up for mining
Boomtown
These are the names of the two railroads
What are the Central Pacific and Union Pacific?
This act gave natives land to make farms
What is the Dawes Act?
Region dominated by Cattle industry
What is the Cattle Kingdom?
This is the general rise in prices
inflation