Native Americans
Ranching
Farming
Mining
Origins of America
100

Term for when people move from place to place

What are nomads?

100

The open range ended when farmers surrounded their farms with this invention.

What is barbed wire?

100

The region in the middle of the U.S. where a lot of ranching and farming happen.

What is the Great Plains?

100

The gold rush of 1849 happened in this state.

What is California?

100

Document where America announces “breakup” with England.

What is the Declaration of Independence?

200

The Dawes Act gave Native Americans 160 acres of land so they could learn this skill

What is farming?

200

Strong breed of cattle in Texas that made early ranching possible.

What is the Texas longhorn?

200

A nickname for a crop that is grown for the purpose of making a profit.

What is a cash crop?
200

This was the gold rush in Alaska’s icy territory.

What is the Klondike Gold Rush?

200

The framework (or rulebook) of our government

What is the Constitution?

300

Two ways Native American students "changed" at boarding schools

what is changing hair, language, skills/hunting, religion

300

What is the process of rounding up cattle and taking them to railroads to sell?

What are cattle drives?

300

For $10 dollars settlers would get 160 acres of land if they could live on it for 5 years.

What is the Homestead Act?

300

This is how gold and ore is transported back to the eastern U.S.

What are railroads?

300

These are rights guaranteed to the people and were the first 10 amendments to the Constitution.

What is the Bill of Rights?

400

This Battle was the last resistance to federal authority.

The last time Native Americans ever physically battled the U.S. military.

What is the Wounded Knee Massacre?

400

The most famous trail that was used to bring cattle from Texas to the Railroads in the north.

What is the Chisholm Trail?

400

These were (3) natural disasters that farmers faced on the Great Plains.

What were
fires, blizzards, storms, wind, tornados, drought, insects, locusts, grasshoppers?

400

The railroads brought goods to the East and brought ________ to the West

What are people?

400

The 3 branches of the U.S. government

What is executive, legislative, and judicial?

500

Absorbing a group into the main culture of the country is known as what?

What is assimilation?
500

This animal was killed by hunters to force Native Americans onto reservations.

What is the buffalo?

500

New ____________ made farming possible on the Great Plains.

What is technology?

500

Two challenges faced by miners during the Klondike Gold Rush

What is cold/far/icy/terrain/wildlife?

500

The 3 branches of government watch over each other to prevent abuse of power. They have the power to approve or disapprove certain actions of the other branches.

What is checks and balances?