Vocabulary
Vocabulary Part Two
People
People Part Two
Misc.
100
Self-appointed law keeper
What is a vigilante
100
What were tepees?
What is cone-shaped tents
100
Who was Sitting Bull?
Who is a great Native American warrior; he was known for his fearlessness in battle
100
Who were homesteaders?
Who were settlers who acquired free land from the government
100
What state had a gold rush in 1849?
What is California
200
What are subsidies?
What is grants of land or money
200
What is a reservation?
What is land set aside for Native Americans to live on
200
What Native American group was forced on the “Long Walk?”
Who are The Navajos
200
Who were sodbusters?
Who were plains farmers
200
The region dominated by the cattle industry and its ranches, trails, and cow towns.
What is a cattle kingdom
300
What were travois?
What is small sleds
300
What was the open range?
What is unfenced land
300
Who were Exodusters?
Who are African Americans that settled on the plains.
300
Why was Colonel George Armstrong Custer in the Little Bighorn Valley? What happened to Custer?
What is he was under orders to force the Native Americans onto a reservation. He and all of his men were killed
300
“What Battle marked the end of the era of Indian Wars?”
What is The Battle of Wounded Knee
400
What were farm cooperatives?
What is groups of farmers who pool their money to make large purchases of tools, seed, and other supplies at a discount.
400
The herding and moving of cattle over long distances.
What is a cattle drive
400
Who were the sooners?
Who are people who sneaked onto the land before the Oklahoma land rush.
400
What did William “Buffalo Bill” Cody create?
What is a traveling wild west show.
400
What did the U.S. officials want the Native Americans to stop doing in the Fort Laramie Treaty? What did they promise to the Native Americans in return? Did they keep their promise?
What is the officials wanted the Native Americans to stop following the buffalo. If they would settle permanently, the government promised to protect their lands “as long as the grass shall grow.” No sooner had they signed the treaty then settlers moved onto their lands.
500
What was the Dawes Act? Did it work?
What is it tried to end Native American’s wandering and turn them into farmers. Native American males each received 160 acres to farm. It failed.
500
The Spanish word for cowhand or cowboy
What is a vaquero
500
Who was known as the “Great Commoner?”
Who is William Jennings Bryan
500
Which Native American Chief said the famous line “I shall fight no more forever.”
Who was Chief Joseph
500
What was inflation?
What is a general rise in prices.