The Great Plains
Progress on building the Transcontinental Railroad was slow for this reason.
What is the work was difficult and dangerous?
Miners and Prospectors travelled many miles to reach this region.
What is the Rocky Mountain region?
This is the battle in which the Seventh Cavalry was defeated.
What was Custer's Last Stand?
This was where a massacre of Indians by soldiers of the Seventh Cavalry occurred.
What is Wounded Knee?
The railroad linked cattle country to these.
What are eastern cities?
This is where the two points of the transcontinental railroad met.
What is Promontory Point, Utah?
When prospectors and miners failed to find gold and silver many of them became these.
What are farmers and ranchers?
This was a holy place to the Sioux and where gold was found.
What are the Black Hills?
This law was an attempt to protect the Indians from being cheated.
What was the Dawes Severalty Act?
This started in the West in Sacramento.
What is the Central Pacific Railroad?
These were many of the workers on the Central Pacific Railroad.
Who were Chinese immigrants?
This is where ranchers wanted to sell their cattle for more money.
What is eastern cities?
He killed thousands if Buffalo?
Who was William F. Cody?
This gave the Indians hope that their way of life might return
What was the Ghost Dance?
The Homestead Act brought many of these to the Great Plains.
What are farmers?
When the transcontinental railroad was complete more people wanted to settle here.
What is the Great Plains?
Homesteaders faced a shortage of this.
What is available water?
The destruction of these ended the Plains Indian's way of life.
What are buffalo herds?
This gave the Indians family sized portions of land for forming and offered them U.S. citizenship if they farmed the land.
What is the Dawes Severalty Act?
This is how former miners brought law and order to their communities.
What is forming city governments and hiring sheriffs?
Stagecoaches regularly left St. Louis for the West carrying these.
What are people and mail?
This is where women in the U.S. first gained the right to vote.
What is Wyoming?
They were ordered to move to a reservation in Idaho.
Who were Chief Joseph and his people?
This event marked the end of the fighting between the U.S. government and the Plains Indians.
What is the massacre at Wounded Knee?
These were some difficulties faced by farmers on the Great Plains.
What were hard ground, little rain, and few trees.