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Immigrants Arrive
Iron and Gold
The Dakota Boom
Path to Statehood and Wounded Knee
Politcal Changes and WWI (After)
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First white settlers came from New England, New York, and other parts of the ?
What is Northeast
100
What was a major source of transportation
What is Steamboats
100
This law let people have 160 acres of public land for free if they lived on it for five years and improved it in some way.
What is Homestead Act
100
How many people lived in South Dakota in 1880
What is 100,000
100
Farming families formed this party to fight for their interests
What is Populist Party
200
The newcomers in South Dakota were called
What is Yankees
200
What was the "iron horse"
What is train
200
Benjamin, Patrick, and Mary Blair started a community of African Americans in Sully County called...
What is Blair Colony
200
Dakotans began pushing for dividing the Dakota Territory into two states. Name the states.
What is North Dakota and South Dakota
200
The Populists were not able to stop the power of huge corporations, but they started this movement
What is Progressive Movement
300
Which war slowed down settlement in South Dakota
What is Civil
300
Who led an expedition into the Black Hills to search for gold
What is Lieutenant Colonel George Custer
300
For heat, families used these if they could not find wood
What is buffalo chips (dried manure)
300
What was the new religion that reached Indians in South Dakota after statehood celebrations.
What is Ghost Dancers
300
What war broke out in 1914 among several European nations
What is World War I
400
Who was the first major group in the Dakota Territory
What is Norwegians
400
Who was killed at the Battle of Little Bighorn in Montana
What is George Custer
400
To heat pans for cooking, settlers twisted together clumps of this and burned it
What is prairie grass
400
Who did the U.S. government kill instead of arresting like they were supposed to.
What is Sitting Bull
400
When the US entered World War I, what 32,000 people joined to help them
What is South Dakotans
500
Why was fur trapping and trading no longer profitable in South Dakota
What is the killing of beavers and/or little demand for fur
500
What town is one of the wildest towns in the West that is full of saloons with gambling and gunfights
What is Deadwood
500
What kind of farming slowly spread across South Dakota
What is mechanized
500
On December 29th, 1890 when someone opened fire on accident, troops opened fire on the Indian families. This was called
What is Wounded Knee Massacre
500
Farmers increased production because the U.S. government was sending food to whom
What is allies