Native Americans
This place was sacred to the Sioux; gold was found there in 1874
What are the Black Hills
This event, which happened in the 1860's, spurred people west due to the devastation it caused.
What is the Civil War
The westernmost trail significant in allowing for large-scale movement of Texas Longhorns to northern states.
What is the Goodnight-Loving Trail?
This person was the proud leader of the Lakota Sioux. Tragically, he was killed by other Sioux.
Who is Sitting Bull
An African American who migrated from the South to Kansas in Post-Reconstruction years
What is an exoduster
This event gave Native Americans "hope" that the white man would leave.
What is the Ghost Dance
This made getting to the west faster and more efficient.
Transcontinental Railroad
Cattle trail used from 1867 to 1884 and helped Texas recover from the Civil War. It was significant by being one of the major routes of Texas for livestock. It provided a vast amount of income in a short period of time.
What is the Chisholm Trail
A social and educational organization through which farmers attempted to combat the power of railroads in the late 19th century
What is the Grange
This act effectively broke up Native American land and the tribe by placing power in the hands of the individual
What is the Dawes Act
This provided settlers with cheap land, which in turn increased the desire to settle.
Homestead Act
Trail that moved cattle and horses. It replaced the Chisholm Trail and was important in developing the cattle industry as for north as Wyoming and Montana.
What is the Western Trail?
DAILY DOUBLE
Members of the west whose lives have been romanticized by Hollywood
Who are Cowboys
The absorbing of or combining of cultures
What is assimilation
Who was the Native American chief leading the Sioux at the Battle of Little Bighorn?
Crazy Horse
This was the first major event to spur settlement out west
California Gold Rush
The earliest and easternmost trail. Used before and slightly after the civil war. Important in establishing trading posts in other cities.
What is the Shawnee Trail?
DAILY DOUBLE
Author of the Dawes Act
Who is Henry Dawes
Name given to Great Plains farmers because they had to break through so much thick soil, called sod, in order to farm
Sodbusters
This event successfully ended armed Native American resistance in the west
What is Wounded Knee
Who was the American commander in charge at the Battle of Little Bighorn? (first and last name)
George Armstrong Custer
Name the 4 cattle trails we studied in class.
Goodnight-Loving Trail, Chisholm Trail, Western Trail, Shawnee Trail
Immigrant group responsible for building much of the western part of the Transcontinental Railroad
Who are the Chinese
This was the ideological underpinning that spurred people west
What is Manifest Destiny