Native Americans on the Prairie
These two animals were essential to Native American Life
What is the horse and the buffalo
a plan in which Native Americans would give up their beliefs and way of life to become apart of white culture
What is assimilation
Which neighbors did the American learn about the ranch from?
What is Mexico
The Two Companies in a race to lay tracks
What is the Central Pacific and Union Pacific
an organization by Oliver Hudson Kelly called The Patrons of Husbandry
What is the Grange
Native Americans lived within their small extended family groups whom spoke the same language
What is Native American Family Life
an act aiming to Americanize the Native Americans
What is the Dawes Act
Cowboys usually worked 10 to 14 hours a day on the ranch and could be as young as 15 years old. The season began with a spring round up handling the herds
What is the Day in the Life of a Cowboy
Through this act, the government offered 160 acres of land free to any citizen or intended citizen who was head of the household
The Homestead Act
This alliance were grange members as well as groups who sympathized with farmers. They sent lecturers into towns to educate people about topics such as low interest rates on loans and government control on railroads
What is the farmers alliance
What is a Reservation
A battle which began after a famous leader was killed because of the Ghost dance. The military leaders made them give up their weapons and The 7th calvary wounded as many as 300 people.
What is the Battle of Wounded Knee
Overgrazing the land, extended bad weather and the invention of barbed wire
What is characteristics responsible for the ending of the Open Range
Settlers built their home from the land itself through prairie turf, which made cool homes in the summer and warm in the winter but with many critters
What is Dougouts and Soddies
The movement of the people founded through the People's Party
What is The Populist Movement
When the Cheyenne Tribe assumed they were under protection of U.S. government and returned to Sand Creek Reservation which then led to Chivington and his troops attacking the Cheyenne Tribe
What is the Massacre at Sand Creek
These two acts gave federal land to the states to help finance agricultural colleges as well as established agricultural experiment stations to inform farmers of new developments
The Morill Act of 1890 and Hatch Act of 1887
Economic Reform, Government Reform, and Social Aspects
Populist Party Platform
A war when the Kiowa and Comanche raided which the Army responded by herding the tribes onto the same reservation and killing the non- friendly
What is the Red River War
people who favored bimetalism
people who favored the gold standard
Who are the Silverites and Goldbugs