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Vocabulary
Farming and Populism
Native Americans
Miners and Cowboys
The Railroad
100
An 1887 Law that divided Indian reservations into private family lots and encouraged Native Americans to become farmers.
What is The Dawes Act
100
The Populist Party was primarily concerned with the issues facing this group.
What is farmers
100
While many Indian Nations relied on farming, hunting, and gathering for sustainability, Plains Indians relied solely on this plentiful animal.
What is buffalo
100
This scared land for Native Americans was promised to them until gold was discovered there.
What is Black Hills
100
These 2 companies were given contracts to build the Transcontinental Railroad.
What is Union Pacific and Central Pacific
200
Constructed between 1863 and 1869, this was meant to connect the railroad systems that existed in the east to the West coast at San Francisco Bay
What is The Transcontinental Railroad
200
Name 2 economic issues that farmers in the West faced.
1. High railroad rates 2. Falling crop prices
200
This Treaty promised land would be put aside for Native Americans in the northern Plains.
What is the Fort Laramie Treaty
200
After gold and silver was all gone, boomtowns became these.
What is ghost towns.
200
The 2 rails met at Promontory Point in this territory.
What is Utah
300
This was land set aside by the government for Native American tribes.
What is a reservation
300
Names 2 negatives for farmers living on the Plains.
1. Weather 2. Swarms 3. No trees (Sod homes)
300
An Armed Engagement in 1876 between combined forces of the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes against the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the U.S. Also Known as "Custer's Last Stand," The Native Americans triumphed in this battle
What is The Battle of Little Big Horn
300
Cowboys took cattle to the railway on this trip
What is long drive
300
Name 2 groups of immigrants who were large parts of building the railroad.
What is Irish and Chinese
400
These towns that experienced a sudden burst in population appeared around gold ans silver strikes in the West.
What is a boomtown
400
This organizations was like a Farmers' Union that worked to improve conditions for them.
What is the Grange
400
This Native American Ritual was the primary cause of the Battle of Wounded Knee in 1890.
What is The Ghost Dance
400
Name 2 dangers cowboys faced in their job.
1. weather 2. stampedes 3. Native Americans 4. bandits/cattle rustlers
400
How did the railroad weaken Native Americans in the west?
1. It took land from them. 2. Large numbers of buffalo were killed.
500
This law promised 160 acres of land to anyone who agreed to work it for 5 years.
What is the Homestead Act
500
This law broke up Native American reservations and gave individual plots to Native families to encourage them to become farmers.
What is the Dawes Act
500
Name 2 effects the railroad had
1. Linked economies of East and West 2. Helped settle the West by bringing goods and people there. 3. People could live anywhere in the West.