Native Americans
Nomadic tribes had specific camping locations in various places, where they lived for a season before moving to follow their primary food source the what?
The Buffalo
What is ...A fear or hatred of immigrants of different ethnicity?
Nativism
This contributed the most to increased settlement of the lands in the Great Plains?
What are the Homestead Acts?
The world is heavily dependent on this for energy
"Crude Oil"
What is Petroleum?
A cooperative organization that helped farmers living in the far-flung regions of the Great Plains consolidate their social ties, share financial burdens and develop enough political power to demand federal regulation of the railroad companies
What is The Grange?
A Native American religious movement / activity believed to have contributed to Lakota resistance to assimilation under the Dawes Act.
What is Ghost Dance?
One way the U.S. government responded to use of unfair practices by the railroads such as rebates for large farms, and different rates per mile traveled.
What is The Interstate Commerce Act?
The need to process large amounts of THIS animal made slaughtering & meatpacking a major industry
What is The Cattle Industry?
A natural fuel such as coal or gas, formed in the geological past from the remains of living organisms
What are Fossil Fuels?
US Military massacre against members of the Lakota (Teton Sioux) tribe, started when Natives who believed in the Ghost Dance Myth refused to surrender their weapons to soldiers
What is The Wounded Knee Massacre ?
What are lands set-aside by the US government for the containment of Native American tribes
Reservations
(They still exist today)
Who are the biggest profiter of oil ? (not the wildcatters)
The railroad companies and petroleum refiners
Hope for freedom and equality
Hope for better economic conditions
Escape from political turmoil and war
Reasons for immigration to the United States
Someone that drills wells in the hope of finding oil in territory not known to be an oil field
What is a Wildcatter?
a member of a people having no permanent homeland, and who travel from place to place to find fresh pasture for their livestock
What is a Nomad?
What was the law in which the primary objective was to promote the assimilation of American "Indians" into Anglo society by assigning out land
The Dawes Act
What is .. the Overland transportation route which connected coastal cities in the East to those in the West; Trains increased the speed, and lowered the cost, of cross-country travel ( The Overland Route)
The Transcontinental Railroad
What was the reason for closing the range?
Overgrazing
One example of an oil “gusher” that made the workers and residents in Beaumont, TX famous overnight.
What is Spindletop?
Native people, or aboriginal people, are culturally distinct ethnic groups who are native to a place which has been colonized and settled by another ethnic group
What are Indigenous Peoples?
A series of efforts by the United States to force Native Americans into mainstream European–American culture between the years of 1790 and 1920
Assimilation
Who is an African American folk hero who According to legend, his strength as a steel-driver was measured in a race against a steam-powered hammer, a race he won, only to die in victory with his hammer in his hand as his heart gave out from stress?
John Henry
Pioneers who settled and farmed the great plains, often using sod (grass & mud) houses for shelter
Who are Homesteaders / Sodbusters ?
Paraffin Wax, Petroleum Jelly,
Unleaded & Diesel Gasoline
What are Goods made from oil?
The deliberate and systematic destruction of a group of people because of their ethnicity, nationality, religion, or race
What is Genocide?