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WESTWARD HO!
LIFE IN THE WEST
MORE LIFE IN THE WEST
MAINLY VOCABULARY
PEOPLE/ODDS AND ENDS
100
Lost his life at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
Who is George Custer?
100
They became farmers and ranchers.
What did most settlers in the West do for a living?
100
Trains were faster, cheaper, and safer.
Why did cattle ranchers sent cattle to market by train?
100
The discovery of gold and silver resulted in a ___ in Colorado and Nevada in the mid 1800s.
What is a boom?
100
Galveston, Shreveport, and New Orleans.
What were 3 port cities at the end of long drives?
200
Two chiefs who led the Souix Indians at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
Who were Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse?
200
They did not want to lose their lands.
What was the main reason that Native Americans resisted settlement of the West?
200
They hunted for gold, silver, and other minerals.
Who were prospectors?
200
Ranchers and cowboys moved cattle from Texas to railroads that shipped them to Chicago on ___ ___.
What is a long drive?
200
Sedalia, Abilene, Ogallala, and Cheyenne.
What were 4 cattle trails in the West?
300
"I will fight no more ... forever.
What is Chief Joseph?
300
He was promising to move peacefully to the reservations.
What was Chief Joseph promising when he said "I will fight no more...forever?
300
Many groups of Plains Indians signed these with the United States to give up their land.
What were treaties?
300
layers of soil held by grass and roots.
What is sod?
400
Gave 160 acres of land for claiming and working the land for 5 years.
What was the Homesead Act of 1862?
400
Wrote a book about being a cowboy.
Who was Nat Love?
400
This caused ghost towns.
What is a bust?
400
An area of land that sticks out like the handle of a pan.
What is a panhandle?
400
He wanted the U.S. to buy Alaska.
Who was Seward?
500
They wanted to own their own land.
Why did many Americans and immigrants move west after the Civil War?
500
This provided food, clothing, tools, and wapons for the Plains Indians.
What was the buffalo?
500
These were lands set aside for use only by Native Americans.
What are reservations?
500
Fairbanks, Nome, Juneau.
What are cities in Alaska?
500
The fiftieth state of the Union.
What is Hawaii?