Plains Indians
Life on the Plains
Farmers and Populism
Ranching and Mining
Miscellaneous West
100
This is the term for people that moved from place to find a food source, like the Plains Indians .
What is a nomad?
100
This was the name for the Black Cavalry on the Western Plains.
What are the Buffalo Soldiers?
100
This is the term for a business buying out its competition to create a monopoly.
What is horizontal integration?
100
This is an American vaquero.
What is a cowboy?
100
This percentage of cowboys were African American.
What is a 25?
200
The US government often made treaties with the Native Americans, and this was what later happened.
The government broke the treaties.
200
This invention by John Deere revolutionized planting on the plains by being stronger and sturdier.
What is the steel plow?
200
Populists and Democrats supported this candidate in 1896 and 1900. He is known for his "Cross of Gold" speech.
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
200
This invention by Joseph Glidden ended the open range.
What is barbed wire?
200
This was the youngest man to ever run for president by 1896.
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
300
The massacre at Wounded Knee occurred after the Sioux continued this spiritual exercise that the US outlawed.
What is the Ghost Dance?
300
This invention made the railroad transportation of meat and fresh goods possible across long distances.
What is the refrigerator car?
300
Republicans and businessmen wanted this to be the only backing for American currency.
What is the gold standard?
300
Seward's Folly and the Great Ice Box were nicknames for the purchase of this territory from Russia.
What is Alaska?
300
This law was created to regulate trade between the states.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
400
This book, written by Helen Hunt Jackson, outlined the injustices towards the Native Americans by the American Government.
What is A Century of Dishonor?
400
This granted funding for agricultural learning institutions across the nation.
What is the Morrill Land Grant?
400
Democrats and Populists advocated for silver and gold to back American currency.
What is bimetallism?
400
A town that undergoes sudden and rapid population growth and usually depends on a single activity or resource.
What is a boomtown?
400
The disease late blight affected this food in Ireland, leading to mass starvation and exodus of people out of the country.
What is the potato?
500
This act pushed for the assimilation of Native Americans into American culture, and cut their land into plots for individual families.
What is the Dawes Act?
500
This location in Utah commemorated the completion of the transcontinental railroad with a golden spike in 1869.
What is Promontory Point?
500
This Republican politician won the elections of 1896 an 1900.
Who is William McKinley?
500
Silver deposits, known as the Comstock Lode, were found in this state in 1859.
What is Nevada?
500
The US gained the California territory after this war in the 1840s.
What is the Mexican War?