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Native Americans
In The West
Politics
Moving West
Miscellaneous
100
This was the first major battle between the Indians and the Americans
What is The Battle of Little Bighorn
100
These are locations miners stayed while exploring different mines
What is Mining Camps
100
The process by which a person or a group's language and/or culture come to resemble those of another group.
What is assimilation
100
Act which granted land to those who promised to farm given land.
What is Homestead Act of 1862
100
African American soldiers that joined the military to fight for their country
What is Buffalo Soldiers
200
This the battle where the Colorado Militia attacked the Indians killing Indian women and children
What is The Sands Creek Massacre
200
When a town has been deserted and no one longer stays there this town is called
What is a Ghost Town
200
Using currency based on gold and silver in order to inflate the money supply.
What is bimetallism
200
African Americans trying to escape to the west from the Jim Crow south.
What is Exodusters
200
This was the beginning Indian boarding school used for assimilation
What is The Carlisle Indian School
300
The Indians would use these movements to pray to their ancestors
What is Ghost Dances
300
These animals were what the Indians relied on for a long time, until they started to be hunted for game
What is Buffalo
300
A dominate force in the populist wing of the Democratic Party, and also lost the election of 1896 to McKinley.
Who is William Jennings Bryan
300
Those who took advantage of the Act of 1862
What is Homesteaders
300
This was the currency issued during the civil war in paper form
What is Greenbacks
400
These are the Indigenous Indians of the great plains
What is Plains Indians
400
When a town is going through growth at a very quick rate, it is called a
What is a Boomtown
400
Won the Election of 1896 and also returned to the gold standard and killed the bimetallism movement.
Who is William McKinley
400
Important Event which drew many people, from all over, into the west
What is California Gold Rush
400
This is farming organization created in 1867
What is The Grange
500
This was the last battle between the Indians and Americans
What is The battle of Wounded Knee
500
Due to the lack of supplies to build, the people moving out to the West had to build these to live in with what the land provided
What is a Sod House
500
The election where Republican William McKinley defeated Democratic William Jennings Bryan and became the President of the United States.
What is the election of 1896
500
The network of Rail Roads which ran from West to East, used by farmers, ranchers, and miners.
What is Transcontinental Railroad
500
The railroads and carts that were used are both examples of the what used to travel West?
What is Technology of Westward Migration