Westward Expansion

Settlers

100

Settlers moved to this grassland region of the United States.

Great Plains

200

Name two hardships the frontier farmer faced.

bad weather, raids by outlaws and Native American, isolation, debt, 

300

This organization fought for farmers' rights.

A. Farmers' Alliance

B. Grange

B. Grange

400

As the buffalo decreased, these two animals began to dominate the Great Plains.

Horse and cattle

500

This act made land available to settlers at a very low cost. (Hint: Mr. Perkins lived very close to the national park named after this in Nebraska.)

Homestead Act

Native Americans

100

The Native American relied heavily on this animal to support their way of life.

Buffalo

200

This dance offered the Sioux and other tribes hope for the future and a return to their way of life.

Ghost Dance

300

The plan to make Native Americans part of white culture was called this.

Assimilation

400

Corpses of Sioux were left to freeze after this massacre at Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota

Battle of Wounded Knee

500

This act broke up reservations and gave some of the land to each Native American family for farming.

A. Morrill Land Grant Act 

B. Dawes Act

B. Dawes Act

Ranching

100

This wire invention ended the open-range.

Barbed Wire

200

This breed of cattle was first brought to America by the Spanish.

Longhorn

300

List one factor that helped the cattle business grow.

Buffalo disappeared, Native American forced onto reservations, fast-growing cities in the East

400

After this war there was a huge demand for beef fueled by rapidly growing cities.

Civil War

500

Cattle ranchers drove their cattle over this trail from San Antonio, Texas to Kansas.

Chisholm Trail

Gold Rush

100

The prospect of striking it rich attracted many Americans to the _____.

A. Great Plains

B. West

West

200

This was the simplest form of mining.

panning

300

Describe how some small mining camps grew into towns.

Women and children came and set up schools, churches, businesses were built.

400

In the Carson River Valley of what is now Nevada, miners found this and eventually took about $500 million for it over a 20 year period.

Silver

500

This end result happened to about 7,500 people while digging for gold and silver during the Western gold rushes.

Death

You Know, That One Guy!

100

This was the leader of the Hunkpapa Sioux tribe.  He was eventually killed after the Ghost Dance.

Sitting Bull

200

Sitting Bull and this Lakota war leader made a surprise attack on the 7th Calvary at the Little Bighorn River.

Crazy Horse

300

This General was killed by Native Americans at the Little Bighorn River.

General George Custer

400

The Republican "gold bugs" nominated this man for President, winning in 1896.

A. William McKinley

B. William Jennings Bryan

William McKinley

500

This Lakota chief was an important figure in the 19th-century land battle between Native Americans and the U.S. government. (Hint: Mr. Perkins hometown is named after him.)

Red Cloud