Gold Rushes
In what year did the California Gold Rush begin?
What is 1849?
What year was the Homestead Act passed?
1862
In 1876, Crazy Horse helped defeat George Armstrong Custer at this famous battle.
What is the Battle of the Little Big Horn?
(Or Greasy Grass)
This invention led to ranchers being able to separate their herds.
What is barbed wire?
This animal started an argument that led to many deaths including those of Conquering Bear and Lt. Grattan.
What is a cow?
When a lot of people moved quickly to a community causing it to grow rapidly it was known as a:
What is a boomtown?
Explain the term 'sodbusters'.
Someone who cut up the sod to make a home and then farm the ground underneath.
Crazy Horse was assassinated here on September 5, 1877.
Where is Camp (Fort) Robinson, Nebraska?
Long cattle drives were usually heading north towards one of these.
What is a railroad?
The U.S. government encouraged killing this animal to weaken Native resistance.
What were Bison (buffalo)?
The name of someone searching for gold/silver, hoping to make it rich.
What is a prospector?
Homesteading was hard work and often included doing with changes in climate such as ____ or ____.
What are flooding, drought, fire, grasshoppers
Crazy Horse's name in Lakota
What is Thašúŋke Witkó?
Many towns in South Dakota were named after rich ranchers, including: (name one)
Oelrichs, Murdo, Lemmon, Philip
When you farm where there isn't access to water (other than rain) it is called:
What is dry farming?
The US government siezed the Black Hills from the Lakota in 1877 after this event.
What was gold being discovered in the Black Hills?
How many years were required in order to keep the land?
What is 5 years.
What was Crazy Horse's childhood name?
"Curly Hair" or "Light Haired Boy"
This allows ranchers and cowboys to know which animal belongs to whom.
What is a brand?
This tool shows events in the order they happened, usually with dates along a line.
What is a timeline?
The completion of this allowed more people to quickly and safely travel across the continent.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
What did the Homestead Act grant any head of household that was a US citizen?
What is 160 acres of land?
Crazy Horse is remembered for defending this above all else.
What is the Lakota way of life/traditional lands?
Cowboys came from many backgrounds including: (name two)
Civil War veterans, Vaqueros, African Americans (recently emancipated), immigrants, farmers
This was the nickname for settlers who sneaked onto Oklahoma land early before it was officially opened. What were 3 average jobs for people in the East?
What are 'Sooners'?