Vocabulary
Word means crossing a continent
Transcontinental
Spanish settlers brought buffalo to America
False: longhorns
Who was the first lawmen of Abilene who prefered to use his hands over guns?
Tom Smith
What battle is known as Colonel Custer's last stand and the last major battle for the Indians?
The Battle of the Little Bighorn
Prairie farmers were called what?
Sodbusters
Frontier
Farmers settling in the West found that inventions were a great help.
True
Who was the Nez Perce leader who traveled to Washington D.C. and spoke with President Hayes about his people?
Chief Joseph
The last major battle between the Indians and white men was at ....
Who was the Sioux Indian chief who fought at the Battle of Little Bighorn?
Crazy Horse
Stampede
An area of land set aside by the US Government for Native Americans is called the frontier.
False: Reservation
One farmer named Joseph Glidden invented what?
Barbed Wire
Why did the Dawes Act not help the Indians? (name the three ways)
1. They were used to living in family groups.
2. They were not used to owning land.
3. Many Indians were not trained to be farmers.
Steel plow, reaper, windmill
A person in charge of a cattle drive
False: boomtown
Who was one of the missionaries to the West?
Ezra Fisher
Who was a cattle trail named after?
Jesse Chisholm
People who raced to claim land in Oklahoma by pushing stakes into the ground and setting up hasty tents were called
Boomers
A rich source of precious metal is a lode.
True
Who was the most famous lawmen of the West? He was well feared.
"Wild Bill" Hickok
"Sooners" slipped across the borders and claimed land before they were allowed during the .......
The Homestead Act allowed (name the ways)
Settlers to own 160 acres ... if they built a house, lived on the land, and improved the land over a period of five years