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Mining
Ranching
Settling/Farming the Plains
Native American Battles
Native American Life
100
Name 3 gold rush spots
What is Colorado, California, Alaska, Nevada, South Dakota
100
Ranchers got these grasslands for free
What is the open range?
100
This crop was popular on the Great Plains
What is wheat?
100
This was started because the government was late with land payments.
What is the Dakota Sioux Uprising?
100
This chief had a quote that said he wanted to go back to the way of life before the white man
Who is 10 Bear?
200
This type of mining was used to get shallow deposits out of the ground.
What is placer?
200
Cowboys went on long drives for this reason
What is they could get more than 10 times the money back east?
200
This type of farming was used on the Great Plains by planting seeds deep into the ground.
What is dry farming?
200
This was started because miners were on Native American lands.
What is the Sand Creek Massacre?
200
This chief led his people 1300 miles before surrendering.
Who is Chief Joseph?
300
These replaced lawmen in the old west
Who are vigilance committes?
300
This was the purpose of barbed wire.
What is to fence in cattle?
300
This gave people 40 acres of land for free.
What is the Homestead Act?
300
All of Custer's men were killed in this battle
What is the Battle of Little Big Horn
300
The Lakota Sioux believed you should _______ before you talk.
What is think?
400
Name 2 problems with the rapid growth of mining towns
What is crime, run out of supplies, run out of room?
400
These are cowboys from Argentina
Who are gauchos?
400
Name the 3 conditions for gaining land under the Homestead Act.
What is build a 12 X 14 house, live there for 5 years, be at least 21 years old?
400
This was started because of the ghost dance.
What is Wounded Knee?
400
This is the reason that Zitkala-Sa didn't want her hair cut.
What is it showed her cowardice?
500
The mining industry contributed to the west in these ways
What is people moved there, people invested money, people opened business?
500
This was the problem for eastern cattle on the Great Plains
What is the prairie grasses were too tough?
500
Problems with free land on the Great Plains
What is it's hard to farm and dry?
500
Little Bear led this
What is the Dakota Sioux Uprising?
500
This is the reason that the white people wanted the Native Americans to assimilate
What is to help them survivor?