People
This person died at the Battle of the Bighorn.
Who was George Custar.
Underground, open surface, placer, and hydraulic.
What are the four types of mining
This changed reservations, which gave allotments to each Native American family.
What was the Dawes Act?
These animals were vital to Native American Survival, but were slaughtered by the railroad companies.
What were the buffalo?
Cattle that survived eating the prairie grass put West.
What are longhorns
This Chief was killed at Wounded Knee.
Who was Sitting Bull?
The Comstock Lode was named after him.
Who is Henry Comstock?
This was a method that absorbed a group into the culture of another population.
What is assimilation?
The railroad that crossed the continent.
What was the transcontinental railroad?
This invention changed the West.
What is barbed wire?
This Chief said he would fight no more, forever.
Who was Chief Joseph?
The giant migration of miners to the West was due to the discovery of gold and silver in Nevada.
What is the Gold Rush of 1849?
Leader of the Cheyenne who were massacred at Sand Creek.
Who was Black Kettle?
The names of the five groups of people that helped build the railroads.
Who were former soldiers, freed slaves, Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, and Native Americans?
A piece of U.S.public land acquired by living on it and cultivating it.
What is a homestead?
Leader of the Cheyenne who were massacred at Sand Creek.
Who was Chief Black Kettle?
Towns that opened and closed as the mines did.
What are Boomtowns?
The war chief who lured an army detachment into an ambush.
Who was Crazy Horse?
These two companies built the transcontinental railroad.
What were the Union and Central Pacific?
The longest cattle drive.
What was Sedalia?
This war chief lured an army detachment into an ambush.
Who was Chief Crazy Horse?
This was the famous tagline of miners heading westward.
What was "Pikes Peak or Bust"?
The U.S. militia killed over 100 Native American men, women, and children.
What was the Sand Creek Massacre?
The two sets of tracks met here May 10, 1869.
What was Promontory Point, Utah?
This was a supply point for mining areas in the Rocky Mountains.
What was Denver, Colorado?