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merry vocabulary
Mine or Ranch
Farm Frenzy
Native American's
What else is there?
100
main source of food for many Native Americans
buffalo
100
process of extracting shalow deposits of ore largely by hand.
What is placer mining
100
Technique in which seeds were planted deep in the ground where there was enough moisture for them to get naturally.
What is "dry farming"
100
Term used to describe native american tribes who roamed vast distances around the great plains.
What is nomads
100
Name the first type of settlers to come west
What is MINERS
200
Journey across the Plains to bring cattle to railroad shipping centers.
What is a long drive
200
Mining that dug deep beneath the surface
What is quartz mining
200
A homesteader would have to live on their land for how many years before owning it?
What is five years
200
The man responsible for the Battle of Little Bighorn
What is George Custer
200
Give TWO reasons why settlers began killing buffalo by the THOUSANDS
What is sport, pushing native americans onto the reservation and to enable the railroad to keep building.
300
vast areas of grassland owned by the federal government
What is open range
300

The site of the Gold Rush of 1849

What is California?

300
Name TWO hardships settlers on the Great Plains faced
What is (need two of three) Scorching summers, prairie fires and swarms of grasshoppers
300
The Lakota performed THIS sacred ritual that was forbidden by the U.S. Government
What is a Ghost Dance
300
site of the incident in which 200 Lakota men, women and children died as a result of soldiers enforcing the law against ceremonial dances.
What is Wounded Knee
400
payments to those living on reservations
What is annuities
400
A new invention that distroyed the open range system
What is barbed wire
400

Name of the region that was a productive farm area that began at the eastern edge of the Great Plains.

What is the Wheat Belt or the Breadbasket of America?

400
Name of the group created to create two large reservations and negotiate with Native Americans to all go onto those reservations.
What is the Indian peace Commission
400
Name of the incident in which Cheyenne and Arapaho were camped out waiting to negotiate and soldiers attacked and killed all.
What is Sand Creek Massacre
500
to be absorbed or become like another culture
What is assimilate
500
A town was called this if it was quickly created because of a mining find.
What is a boomtown
500

State Normal College for Colored Students (FAMU) was the 1st college for African Americans to receive financial aid to teach Agricultural Science.

What is the Morrill Land Grant?

500

Name the ACT that was proposed to help assimilate Native Americans into European/American culture  them.

What is the Dawes Act.

500
Name the woman who wrote "A Century of Dishonor" explaining all the abuse the settlers and government had given the Native Americans.
Who is Helen Hunt Jackson