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100

The practice of separating heavily eroded minerals like gold from sand or gravel

What is Placer Mining

100

Vast areas of land owned by the government for cattle grazing

What is the Open Range

100
It brought an end to the Open Range.

What is Barbed Wire

100

A person who travels from place to place.  No permeant home.

What is a Nomad

100

Famous American General who died at the Little Big Horn.

Who is George Custer

200

An early prospector who found didn't realize he hit a major silver discovery!

Who was Henry Comstock

200

Land once thought to be worthless was transformed when this crop was found to grown there.

What is the Wheat Belt.

200

How much land was given to those who qualify under the Homestead Act?

What is 10

200

Did the Dawes Act succeed?

What is no!

200

The famous trail used by cowboys to push cattle.  

What is the Chisholm Trail

300

Rounding up of cattle and moving them over long distances.

What is the Long Drive

300

$10, live on land for 5 years.

What are requirements of the Homestead Act

300

Area of the country where Wheat grows well.

What is the Whet Belt

300

Dividing reservation land up for families to farm.

What are Allotments. 

300

This land deal in 1803 by Thomas Jefferson more than doubled the size of the United States.

What is the Louisiana Purchase

400

The large farms - sometimes 50,000 acres - would make great money for their owners

What are Bonanza Farms

400
For one culture to be absorbed into another.

What is assimilate 

400

This Act of Congress gave Native Americans free land to farm on the Great Plains 

What is the Dawes Act

400

A native American Dance

What is the Ghost Dance

400

Pull factors for people to move west.

What is start a new life, make money, avoid the law enforcement,
500

Self-appointed volunteers who kept law and order in western towns.

What were Vigliance Committees

500

This explorer who first Great Plains claimed the land won't be good for any practical use.

Who is Steven Long
500
The process of planing seeds deep in the ground where there is moisture.

What is Dry Farming

500

People who blowed the rock hard soil of the Great Plains

Who where the Sodbusters.

500

Annual payments from the Government to Indians for them to live on reservations

What are Annuities