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100
Gold was discovered here.
What is the Pikes Peak?
100
Ranchers burned this into animals' hides to show ownership
What is a brand?
100
Tracts of land set aside for Native Americans
What are reservations?
100
The price of a bushell of wheat in 1866
What is $1.45?
100
Supported railroad construction often
What are subsidies?
200
Boomtowns turn into this.
What are ghosttowns?
200
Towns located near railroads to market and ship cattle
What are cow towns?
200
This person broguth home several hundred Cheyenne to negotiate a peace deal.
Who is Chief Black Kettle?
200
Networks of orgranizations that sprang up in the west and south in the 1880s
What is The Farmers' Alliances?
200
In all, the Federal Government granted this many acres of land to railroad companies
What is 130million acres?
300
Rich streaks of ore sandwiched between layers of rock
What are lodes?
300
Began to replace the Long Drive on the northern Plains
What is ranching?
300
The Sioux military leader that acted as a decoy to lure troops into a trap
Who is Crazy Horse?
300
Nominated by the Populist Party to run for President in 1892
Who is James B. Weaver?
300
Hired about 10,000 Chinese laborers to work on its tracks
What is the Central Pacific?
400
Financial aid and land grants from the government
What are subsidies?
400
In Colorado and Wyoming, this number % of those who filed homestead claims were women
What is 12%?
400
Appointed by the Ferderal Government in 1867 to develop a policy toward Native Americans
What is the Indian Peace Commision?
400
Appeal to the common people
What is populism?
400
During these years the nation's railroad network expanded rapidly
What is 1865-1890?
500
The song that miners sang as they headed for Pikes Peak
What is "The Gold Seeker's Song"?
500
The Goodnight-Loving Trail was named after these two people
Who are Charlier Goodnight and Oliver Loving?
500
This man led an army from the North Platte River to round up Native Americans in 1876.
Who is George Crook?
500
Its' purpose was to remove the burden of credit buying that threatened farmers.
What is the "cach-only" policy?
500
In 1883 the railroad companies divided the country into this
What are 4 time zones?