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Section 1
The Mining Booms
Section 2
Ranchers and Farmers
Section 3
Native American Struggles
Section 4 Farmers in Protest
Content Vocabulary
100
Gold dust
What did prospectors skim?
100
Longhorns
What was the cattle called?
100
The Red Clouds.
Who did the government officials meet with?
100
Farming.
What expanded after the Civil War?
100
Towns that develop almost overnight around mining sites.
What is a boomtown?
200
Gold strikes
What created boomtowns?
200
cattle drives
Ranching eventually began to replace what?
200
Buffalo
The Plain Native Americans had millions of ________ to supply their needs?
200
$1.45
In 1866 how much did a bushel of whear cost?
200
to acquire a pieve of U.S public land by living on and cultivating it
What did a homestead do?
300
In 1859
When did several prospectors find one of the worlds richest deposits?
300
The Great Plains
Where did the earlyy pioneers reach?
300
Conflict developed with the Native American Groups.
When white people began to settle in the plains what began?
300
Railroad companies, Eastern
What three groups did the farmers blame their troubles on?
300
an area of public lands set aside for Native Americans/
What is a reservation?
400
Pikes Peak in the Colorado Rockies.
Gold was found in 1858, but where?
400
The cattle & cowhands
What captured the imagination of the nation?
400
The Sioux
Crazy Horse was a military leader of what group?
400
The would have charged high prices.
How did the Easter manufacturers make the farmers have troubles.
400
stores where farmers bought products from each other.
What were cooperatives used for?
500
Gold & Silver
What dissapered when the mining of other metals, including copper, lead, and zinc increased?
500
The climate.
What presented the farmers with their greatest challenges?
500
it aimed to remove what whites regarded as two weaknesses of Native American life.
What did the Dawes Act aim?
500
They would be charged more to ship crops to the manufacturers that need it.
How did the railroad companies cause troubles to the farmers?
500
metal coins and paper notes used as money.
What are currencys?