Vocab
A stretch of grassland in the Midwest.
What is the Great Plains?
A sod home that is similar to a dugout.
What is a soddy?
This part of the Buffalo was considered sacred and was used in many Native American rituals.
What is the skull?
This trail ran directly through Sioux hunting grounds in the Bighorn mountains.
What is the Bozeman Trail?
This prevented animals from wandering off.
What is barbed wire?
A United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the American Indian Wars.
Who is George A. Custer?
The process in which a minority group or culture comes to resemble a dominant group.
What is assimilation?
This pat of the Buffalo was carved into bowls and spoons.
What are the horns?
This animal completely changed the way of Native American life after being brought to New Mexico in 1598.
What is a horse?
This tool sped up harvesting and saved crops from winter.
What is a reaper?
In 1887 congress passed this act to "Americanize" Native Americans.
What is the Dawes Act?
The offering 160 acres of land free to any citizen or intended citizen who was head of the household
What is the Homestead Act?
This part of the Buffalo was made into hide scrapers, tool handles, sled runners, and hoe blades.
What are the bones?
One of the most tragic events to occur throughout the American-Indian Wars. It occurred on Nov. 29, 1864.
What is the Massacre of Sand Creek?
This tool made planting more efficient in root filled soil.
What is a steel plow?
The leader of the Hunkpapa Sioux.
Who is Sitting Bull?
An act that gave federal land to the states to help finance agricultural colleges.
What is the Morrill Act.
This part of the Buffalo was ground up and used as glue.
What are the hooves?
These two companies began to lay down track across the country in the 1860's.
What is the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific?
At this time, during the 1880's, farmers were suck on debts and loans, the governments supply of silver had run low, and railroad companies went bankrupt.
What is the panic of 1893?
When the Sioux agreed to live on a reservation along the Missouri River.
What is the Treaty of Fort Laramie?
An American agrarian movement during the 1870s and ’80s that sought to improve the economic conditions for farmers through the creation of cooperatives and political advocacy.
What are Farmers' Alliances.
This was the most precious part of the buffalo. It was used for clothes and teepees.
What is the hide?
This National Park was created in 1872 and was the first National Park to exist within the U.S.
This tool prevented crop dehydration by bringing up underground water for irrigation.
What is a steel windmill?