Settlement
What Act Lawed the set up the settlement of the West?
The Homestead Act?
What Act lawed the set up the reservation system in the US?
The Dawes Act
What is the name given to African American cavalrymen?
Buffalo Soldiers
Who led the Indian Army at the Battle of Little Bighorn?
Crazy Horse
Which Act lawed the construction of the transcontinental railway.
The Pacific Railway Act
How long someone had to stay on and improve the land they settled under the Homestead Act?
5 years
Which major battle led to the death of Lt. Col. Custer and all his men?
Battle of Little Bighorn
What is the name of he men who led cattle drives.
Who organised a massive Indian confederacy against the US Army at the Little Bighorn?
Sitting Bull
Workers were brought in from this Asian nation to work on the rail road.
China
What invention closed the open range?
Barbed Wire
Which animal represented life to the Plain's Indians?
The buffalo
What was the most widely used handgun of the old west.
The Colt .45
Who created the mail order catalogue?
Richard Sears
The creation of the transcontinental railroad led to the development of four of these in the US.
Time zones
What was the largest land race of it's day?
The Oklahoma Land Race
Which huge massacre of Sioux tribe led to the largest mass murder in US history?
The Wounded Knee Massacre
What was the name of the mass movement of cattle to railways and slaughterhouses led by cowboys.
Cattle drives
Who ran the Carlisle Indian school?
Richard Pratt
This substance was used to blast through the Sierra Nevada mountains.
Nitroglycerine
Which animal plagued the great plains until it soon became extinct in the US?
Locusts
Which school taught Indian children how to be "Americans"?
The Carlisle School
What was the name of the huge massacre of Cheyenne in Eastern Colorado?
The Sand Creek Massacre
Abraham Lincoln freed all men, but this man made them equal.
Samuel Colt
The transcontinental railway eventually linked up in this state.
Utah