Mining
After what event did mining increase dramatically?
What is the Civil War
This government program and law encouraged settlement in the Great Plains.
What is the Homestead Act of 1862
How many cattle roamed the Texas Grasslands in 1865
What is 5 million?
Peoples that roamed the land following food.
What are nomads
Professional Buffalo hunters were after these.
What is buffalo hides?
Name of the mining strike found in Virginia City, Nevada
What is Comstock Lode
Plant seeds deep in the ground
What is dry farming?
Huge ranch
What is a hacienda?
Plains Indian tribes were divided into
What are bands?
The US Army officer in charge of Battle of the Little Bighorn.
Who is George Custer?
Boomtown
What is a quickly growing town?
Those who plowed the plains
What is sodbusters?
A cowboy in Spanish.
What is a vaquero?
Cheyenne Indians were here to negotiate, but a battle ensued.
What is the Sand Creek Massacre?
The Chief of the Nez Perce Indians.
Who is Chief Joseph?
This type of mining was used for removing large quantities of earth.
What is hydraulic mining.
This event opened up land in 1889 for settlement
What is Oklahoma Land Rush?
This caused the population to increase in the SW
What is more railroads?
Red Cloud's War included what three Chiefs?
What is Red Bull, Crazy Horse, and Sitting Bull.
Ceremony and ritual of the Lakota Sioux.
What is the Ghost Dance?
Gold was discovered in this area of the Dakota Territory.
What is the Black Hills
The Great Plains are between what two major geographic features.
What is the Mississippi River and Rocky Mountains
Spanish language neighborhoods
What is a barrio?
What year was the Indian Peace Commission formed to create large reservations.
What is 1867?
This Act of Congress to address Native Americans was a failure.
What is the Dawes Act?