The cattle industry boomed as the culture of the plains Indians declined.
What is the main idea of the during the late 1800’s
100
This is the state the exodusters moved to.
What is kansas
100
An organization for farmers
What is the grange?
100
This was aimed to Americanize Americans.
What is the Dawes act?
100
In this 1862 congress passed this act offering 160 acres of land free to any citizen or intended citizen who was head of the household.
What is the homestead act?
200
The Americans received cowboys knowledge from these people.
Who are Mexicans?
200
This state is known as the sooner state, because they took land before they were supposed to.
What is Oklahoma?
200
The collapse of multiple railroads, causing stocks to fall.
What is Panic of 1893?
200
He was the leader of the Hunkpapa Sioux.
Who is sitting bull?
200
African Americans who moved from the post-reconstruction south to Kansas.
Who are exodusters?
300
This was the battle where the seven Calvary fell to the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians
What was Custer’s last stand?
300
Settlers didn’t used trees often instead they used this to make their homes.
What is mud and the ground?
300
The movement of the people
What is populism?
300
This was a major cattle route form San Antonio, Texas through Oklahoma to Kansas.
What is the Chisholm trail?
300
This is like a dugout or a sod home was warm in the winter and cold in the summer.
What is soddy?
400
This was a inhumane slaughter of 200 unarmed native Americans where they solders left the corpses to freeze on the ground.
What is Battle of Wounded Knee?
400
This was sheared to make wool for clothes for the family.
What is a sheep?
400
Ran for president from his front porch
Who is William McKinley?
400
This was a plan under which native America an would give up their beliefs and way of life to become part the white culture.
What is assimilation?
400
In 1862 and 1890 gave federal land to the state to help finance agricultural colleges, and the hatch act of 1887 established agricultural experiment stations to inform farmers of new developments
What is Morril act?
500
List at least one reason on why the cattle industry fell
What is Overgrazing of the land, extended bad weather, and the invention of barbed wire
500
This prevented animals from trampling crops and wandering off.
What is barbed wire?
500
Oliver Hudson Kelley started this
What is the Patrons of Husbandry?
500
This was the General that led the seven Calvary into a major loss, as Crazy’s horses troops were ready for them.
Who was George A. Custer?
500
These were enormous single crop spreads of 15,000-50,000 acres.