This is the major resource of the Native Americans.
What is buffalo?
100
This was the best time to start a cattle drive.
What is Springtime? :D :D :D
100
This helped populate the great plains.
What is free land for the homesteaders?
200
Cattle kingdom
What is the region dominated by the cattle industry and its ranches, trails and cow towns?
200
Some mining towns became ghost towns after the _______ was mined out.
What is metals?
200
If the nations would stop following the buffalo and settled permanently the government would protect their lands. This was called the __________ ___________ treaty.
What is Fort Laramie treaty?
200
Who helped to promote the fantasy of the Wild West?
What is William "Buffalo Bill" Cody?
200
Early farm families used this as fuel.
What is buffalo manure?
300
Settlers who required free land from the government
What is homesteaders?
300
This group of people came to build railroads?
What is Immigrants?
300
The Dawes Act tried to end the _______ _________ and turn them into ___________.
What is Native wondering and turn them into farmers?
300
Sombrero
What is hat that provides shade? :3
300
Railroads provided more farming land than the ___________ ____________.
What is the homestead act?
400
A surface layer of earth in which the roots of grasses tangle with soil.
What is sod?
400
How did the railroads effect the west?
What is people and supplies poured in and gold and silver poured out?
400
This was ignited at the Sand Creek Massacre.
What is an era of war?
400
These factors led to the end of the cattle boom.
What is economic depression, bad weather, and the fencing of crops?
400
This is was the outcome of the election of 1896.
What is republican William McKinley won?
500
Groups of farmers who pool their money to make large purchases of tools, seeds, and other supplies at a discount
What is farm cooperatives?
500
__________ ___________ and his partner won the rights to build the railroad called the central pacific.
Who is Leland Stanford?
500
Southern Plains nations like the Kiowas, moved to reservations in __________.
What is Oklahoma?
500
You could buy a young calf for ________ and sell a mature steer for _______.
What is $5.00, $60.00? o_0
500
Sing our Sod Buster Song (everyone in the group must do it)
What is we'll correct you if you're wrong? DOUBLE JEOPARDY!