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Miners, Ranchers, & Cowhands
Native Americans Fight to Survive
Life in the West
Farming
Populism & Economics
100
These swindlers saw new towns as places to get rich quick by cheating others.
Who are "con men"?
100
300 of the tribe of these Native Americans were killed in the Wounded Knee Massacre.
What are Sioux?
100
A piece of land and the house on it.
What is a homestead?
100
The Homestead Act offered this many acres of free land to anyone willing to live on and improve the land for five years.
What is 160 acres?
100
The unlimited coining of silver.
What is the free silver policy?
200
The cattle industry boomed for this many years.
What is 20 years?
200
The event in which Colorado militia attacked a Cheyenne village in response to an attack on miners and soldiers.
What is the Sand Creek Massacre?
200
Western cities wanted to link with this to increase their population.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
200
Another name for "cow chips".
What is dried manure?
200
This Democrat wrote the "Cross of Gold" speech and had the support of the Populist party.
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
300
This cattle trail stretched from San Antonio, Texas to Abilene, Kansas.
What is the Chisholm Trail?
300
The last major Native American victory against the United States.
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
300
African Americans who served in the US Army in the West.
What are Buffalo Soldiers?
300
Organizations owned and run by their members.
What are cooperatives?
300
In 1890 the Census Bureau declared this.
What is the closing of the frontier?
400
A town that has a sudden burst of economic or population growth.
What is a boomtown?
400
The arrival of these animals changed the lives of the Plains Indians.
What are horses?
400
He brought the West to the rest of the world through his Wild West show.
Who is William "Buffalo Bill" Cody?
400
One of the reasons that life on the plains was miserable.
What are blizzards, prairie fires, hailstorms, tornadoes, grasshoppers, and drought?
400
The government backs every dollar with a certain amount of gold in this policy.
What is the gold standard?
500
The area from the Missouri River to the Rocky Mountains that is full of rolling plains, dry plateaus, and deserts.
What is the Great Plains?
500
This Act was passed in 1887 to encourage Native Americans to give up their traditional ways and become farmers.
What is the Dawes Act?
500
These people claimed their land through grants from Mexico and Spain but the US Courts did not recognize these grants.
Who are the Mexicanos?
500
The official name of the Grange.
What are the Patrons of Husbandry?
500
Turner wrote his essay on the frontier in this year.
What is 1893?