Invention
To keep people out
Barbed Wire
These types of houses were made because there were few trees in the Great Plains
Sod Houses
Nez Perce Leader who after his surrender was sent to a prisoner of war camp in Kansas
Chief Joseph
This Battle led to the death of General George Custer in 1876 (Also known as Custer's Last Stand)
Battle of Little Bighorn
An area of land put aside and the natives were forced to live on
Reservation
To transport people on railroads
Trains/Transcontinental Railroad
Sod Houses, Beef Houses, Dry Farming, and Wheat Farming
Adaptions in the West
Fierce and brave Apache who fled to Mexico and staged raids against incoming white settlers
Geronimo
Sitting Bull led the Cheyenne/Sioux in this battle
Battle of Little Bighorn
Across which famous river did settlers migrate west from after the Civil War
Mississippi
Used to cut and turn over soil
Steel Plow
People saw the Great Plains as ____ but as a vast area to settle in
"Treeless Wasteland"
Lakota spiritual leader who led his people across the plains to avoid capture by US soldiers
Sitting Bull
This battle was caused by many Native Americans relocating to reservations
Battle of Wounded Knee
To be against something
Opposition
Invented by Cyrus McCormick in 1831, that revolutionized farming by using a vibrating blade, a reel, and a platform to cut and gather grain
Mechanical Reaper
This type of farming helps the farmers pick up wheat
Wheat Farming
Died at Battle of Little Bighorn
George Custer
Law that broke up communal Native American tribal lands into small, privately owned parcels to assimilate Indigenous peoples into mainstream American society and encourage individual property ownership
Dawes Act of 1887
The process by which minority groups, including immigrants and Native Americans, adopt the customs, languages, and values of the dominant culture to integrate into mainstream society?
Assimilation
Pulls water from the ground
Windmill
This type of farming help settle down the cattle while on the farm
Beef Cattle Farming
Also led the Sioux and Cheyenne to victory to Battle of Little Bighorn
Crazy Horse
This act gave free public land in western territories to settlers to live/farm on
Homestead Act of 1862
This happened in 1849 in California which helped settlers become wealthy
The discovery of gold