Wovoka's vision developed int a religious movement. It inspired hope among Native Americans
What is Ghost Dance
100
The new thinking was instead of removal, treaties, reservations, or war.
What is the government should pursue a policy of Americanization
100
Farm operated like a factory
What is bonanza farm
100
A strip or block of dense grass with the roots and soil attached. Oblinger, a Civil war veteran his family and thousands of pioneer families first homes in Nebraska.
What is sod house
200
After the Civil War cities became infatuated with beef. Beef was worth more in the North due to feeding their growing population. How did the cattle get transported to the North?
What is Chisholm Trail
200
Law that allowed any head of household over the age of 21 to claim 160 acres of land
What is homestead act
200
2 methods to extract the ore.
What is hydraulic mining, hard rock mining
200
African Americans who moved to Kansas to build communities in the West.
What is Exodusters
200
How did Native Americans resistance to white settlement end?
What is Native Americans were moved to reservations, captured or defeated.
300
Issuing wide-range of orders that left few aspects of Indian culture untouched.
What is Bureau of Indian Affairs
300
Law giving land to the railroad companies in order to help build railroads and telegraph lines
What is Pacific Railway Act
300
Joseph Glidden of De Kalb invention.
What is barb wire
300
Broke up most reservations and turned Native Americans into individual property owners.
What is Dawes Act
300
Black Coyote refused to give his gun up; struggle started and by the end of the altercation, 300 Sioux men, women, and children were dead.
What is Wounded Knee Massacre
400
What was life like on the Indian reservation?
What is very difficult to maintain traditions: children sent to English only schools
400
Why did the U.S. government create reservations?
What is to extend control over western territories; to force Native Americans to live like white Americans.
400
Prospectors found gold near the Carson River Valley of present day Nevada. Thousands of miners rushed to this mine. Miners found 500 million dollars worth of silver for the next twenty years
What is Comstock Lode
400
Gave land to the states for agricultural colleges. It was the first federal aid to higher education.
What is Morrill Act
500
Which groups of people moved to the West and why did they do so?
What is white settlers, cheap land; African Americans fled violence and oppression in the South; Europeans economic opportunity; Chinese immigrants, gold rush and jobs building railroads
500
Why did the government take back 90 percent of the Nez Perce reservation land
What is land was desired by settlers and gold
500
Why did mining become a big business
What is when surface deposits of gold ran out, only big companies could afford the equipment needed to extract gold
500
How did mining lead to new settlements in the West
What is people came west to search for gold and silver, mining camps grew up and some developed into towns
500
Who was involved in the battle of Little Bighorn
What is General Custer, the Sioux led by Sitting Bull