Native Battles/Conflicts
Also known as "The battle of Little BigHorn" (This question has two answers)
The belief that Americans had the god given right to colonize westward.
What is Manifest Destiny?
These two people led a famous expedition through the Louisiana Territory.
Who were Louis and Clark?
What was the Union Pacific Railroad Company OR what was the Central Pacific Railroad Company?
Who were prospectors?
Who were people who searched for mineral deposits, specifically gold?
This attack was one of the first ones in which innocent natives who thought they were under military protection were attacked. About 200 Natives died.
What is the Sandcreek Massacre?
This invention was considered the thing that helped to bring an end to the wild west era.
What is barbed wire?
He invented the telegraph.
Who was Samuel Morse?
What is hostility and ill-treatment based on beliefs?
What is a cattle drive?
What is the process of moving a herd of cattle over land from one location to another done by cowboys on horseback?
This was one of the most crushing defeats in US military history in which a group of Native Americans led 81 soldiers to their doom in a trap, then mutilated their bodies as the Americans had at Sand Creek.
What is the Fetterman Massacre?
These towns were quickly constructed, but many of them were quickly abandoned as well.
What is a boomtown?
Who was Red Cloud OR who was Crazy Horse?
What were investors?
Who were people who invested in something with hopes of financial gain?
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This was one of the last major conflicts of the American Indian war in which an accidental discharge of a gun led to the deaths of over 300 people.
What was the Wounded Knee Massacre?
This act that was passed allowed the government to negotiate treaties with the natives asking them to move.
What was the Indian Removal Act of 1830?
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Who invented the AMERICAN windmill?
Who was Daniel Halladay?
What does assimilate mean?
What is to take in info, culture, or other things and understand fully?
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What was the Nez Perce War?
This granted land to anybody who wanted it with the requirements of:
They must farm crops and live on the land for 5 years, build a permanent structure, and they must be 21 years old and have never fought against the US.
What is an exoduster?
Who was an African American who migrated to the west during westward expansion?
About how many cowboys were African American?
1/4, 1/2, 3/5, or 5/8?
What is about 1/4 of cowboys were black?