Native American Experience
This animal was the main food, clothing, and tool source for the Plains Indians
What is the buffalo?
The belief that Americans were destined to control the land from coast to coast.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Year the Homestead Act was passed
What is 1862?
Spanish cowboys who taught Americans cattle ranching skills.
Who were vaqueros? or Spanish Cowboys
Type of house built from grass and soil bricks due to lack of trees.
What is a sod house?
U.S. policy that forced tribes onto set land areas
What is the reservation system?
Two “push factors” that encouraged people to leave their homes.
What are high food prices and religious persecution?
Immigrant groups who did much of the railroad construction.
Who were the Irish and Chinese?
The term for government-owned grazing land where cattle roamed freely.
What is the open range?
This invention allowed farmers to pump underground water.
What is the windmill?
Law that divided tribal land into individual plots and aimed to assimilate Natives.
What is the Dawes Act?
Two “pull factors” that attracted settlers West.
What are the discovery of precious metals and the Transcontinental Railroad?
The railroad that linked the East and West coasts.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
The trail cattle ranchers used to move cattle to railroads.
What is the long drive?
Farmers burned this as fuel due to lack of wood.
What are buffalo chips?
African American soldiers who fought in the Indian Wars were called this.
Who were the Buffalo Soldiers?
Towns that sprang up overnight due to mining booms.
What are boom towns?
One major benefit of the Transcontinental Railroad.
What is faster transportation of goods and people?
The nickname for the rise of ranching in the West when cattle prices soared.
What is the Cattle Kingdom?
Farmers’ alliance of miners and workers that became a political party in 1892.
What is the Populist Party?
Wars from 1864–1890 where U.S. troops clashed with Native tribes resisting removal were called this.
What were the Indian Wars?
The name of boom towns when resources ran out?
What is a ghost towns?
Encouraged buffalo killing and Native land loss
What is the drawback or negative effect of the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad
The approximate rise in cattle value once railroads opened (from $__ to $__).
What is $3 to $40 per cow?
William Jennings Bryan’s famous 1896 speech supporting bimetallism.
What is the “Cross of Gold” speech?