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What affect did the lack of trees in the western praries have on the homesteaders?
fuel, house construction, fencing
_______ are areas set aside for Indians
Reservations
Who was a Sioux medicine man?
Sitting Bull
The farming in the Great Plains resulted in
too much soil erosion
Lieutenant Colonel George Custer was killed where
The Battle of Little BigHorn
Black Bart, Jesse James, and Billy the Kid were all famous ______ of the West
outlaws
Oliver H.Kelly's farmers' organization
Grange
Who inspired the Indian attack at Little BigHorn?
Sitting Bull
_____ sold meat to the Union soldiers during the Civil War. He built a larger and efficient meatpacking plant in Chicago.
Phillip Armour
Whose problems were still not settled by the 1900s?
American Indians
In the late 1800s, America's policy towards the Indians included _____, ________, ______
assimilation
forcing them onto reservations
making them wards of the federal government
The _____ helped the prairie farmers pump their water from a well
windmill
The ______ gave land to individual Indians for self- support.
Dawes Act
What 3 Indian chiefs were involved in the Battle of Little Bighorn?
Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Gall
The Indians were not peaceful when the ______ came to the Great Plains
white settlers