All Aboard for the West
The major contributing factor to the rapid settling of the west
What is the railroads?
Year Southwest and Western Native Americans defeated?
When is 1890?
Enemy that stationary tribes faced due to white settlements in the Great Plains
What is smallpox?
The year the Great Sioux war began
When is 1876?
In 1980 the Supreme court ruled that _______
What is the U.S. occupation of the Black Hills was illegal?
The two railroad companies that build the transcontinental railroad
What is the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific?
When is 1912?
The three distinct but confused positions of the federal policy toward the Indians...
What were eradication, relocation, and assimilation?
The Dawes Act broke up Indian reservations and gave the land to..
What is Individual Indian families?
The Black Hills area was sacred to the Indians, and would not stand by and see it ___________
What is desecrated?
What reasons did southern veterans of the Civil War have for wanting to leave the South?
What is new opportunities, freedom from oppression of the reconstruction, and adventure
The Homestead Act of 1862 allowed families to
What is buy 160 acres of public lands?
The Bozeman Trail ran from Colorado to....
What is a point where it intersected the Oregon trail, then it continue on into Montana?
The Sioux people turned to their ancient ways and performed the _________ in hopes of getting help from the spirits
What is the Ghost Dance?
Under various forms of _________ the Nez Perce chiefs signed a treaty giving up a large part of their lands to the U.S. government
What is coercion?
The two immigrant groups provided large numbers of laborers for the first transcontinental railroad
What is the Chinese and Irish?
The major difficulty of raising cattle in the Great Plains?
What is scarcity of water?
Led a shameful massacre by militia at Sand Creek..
Who is Colonel John Chivington?
The battle at Little Bighorn was lost by...
Who is General Custer and the 7th Cavalry?
Crazy horse died when....
What is when he was bayoneted while resisting being placed in prison?
The place where the two railroads joined to complete the Transcontinental Railroad
Where is Promontory Point, Utah?
Mining communities, called _________ ___________, sprang up almost overnight
What were boom towns?
Led to the end of nomadic indians of the Great Plains
What is bison herds were destroyed?
The tragedy at ___________is viewed as the end of armed resistance by the Indians.
Where is Wounded Knee?
The Nez Perce Indians lived in the Pacific Northwest in the area of the present-day states of.....
What are Washington, Oregon, and Idaho?