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Miners, Ranchers and Cowhands
Native Americans Fight to Survive
Life in the Midwest
Farming and Populism
Terms and Names
100
The first cowhands that came from Mexico to the 1500's and settled in the southwest.
Who are the Vaqueros?
100
The land that the U.S. government forced Native Americans to move in the West
What are reservations?
100
Developed where gold and silver were discovered.
What are cities?
100
Industry that greatly enhanced West development.
What is the railroad industry?
100
Law that offered land to anyone who agreed to settle it
What is the Homestead Act
200
The Price of beef dropped, the invention of barbed wire, and the harsh winter of 1886-87
What are reasons for the Cattle boom end?
200
1866 Montana massacre where Sioux attached construction workerss on a road through Sioux hunting grounds
What is the Fetterman Massacre?
200
New Mexico, Texas, Arizona and California
What made up the Southwest
200
Farming organization originally intended to help farmers social needs
What is the Grange?
200
The presidential candidate supported by the Populist and Democrats in 1896.
Who was William Jennings Bryan
300
Justice which involved local people taking the law into their own hands
What is vigilante justice?
300
Geronimo and Chief Joseph had this in common.
What is fleeing U.S. troops rather than live on reservations.
300
The only territory where Hispanic society survived.
What is New Mexico?
300
1877 U.S. Supreme Court decision which helped farmers by regulating the railroad industry
What is Munn vs Illinois?
300
The mass killing of Native Americans by U.S. troops.
What is the Wounded Knee Massacre
400
Virginia City, Nevada became a boomtown after prospectors hit "pay dirt" at this mine.
What is Comstock Lode in Nevada
400
Prophet that preached vision of plains tribes returning to power and whites being removed.
Who is Wovoka?
400
White West settlers exaggerated roles, depiction of Native Americans as villains, lack of information on African Americans in the West.
What are myths of the Old West
400
Political party formed to advance the farmers causes in the West
What is the Populist party?
400
A deadly attack on a peaceful Cheyenne village by Colorado militia.
What is Sand Creek Massacre?
500
Developed after the the mining boom was over in the West.
What are ghost towns?
500
Act which attempted to Americanize the Native Americans?
What is the Dawes Act?
500
African Americans called "Exodusters" flocked to Kansas due to this Act.
What is the Homestead Act?
500
Declared by the Census Bureau since there was no longer a continuous frontier line.
What is the closing of the frontier?
500
Famous battle between U.S. troops and Native Americans.
What is the Battle of Little Big Horn?