What was Annie Oakley's given Indian name by tribe leader Sitting Bull
100
A town that undergoes rapid growth
What is a Boom Town?
100
Led his men into a massacre at the battle of Little Bighorn
Who is George Custer
100
Those who traveled west for gold
Who is the forty-niners
100
the agreement act that forced the Sioux to live on Indian reservations along the Missouri river in exchange for the U.S. government closing the Bozeman Trail
What is the treaty of Fort Laramie
200
The native American spiritual movement which was intended to restore their way of life
What is the ghost dance movement?
200
This industry rapidly grew after the civil war
What is the beef industry?
200
Considered to be one of the most tragic events of the Indian war, in which about 700 native Americans were massacred
What is the Sand Creek massacre?
200
The name of the ‘epidemic’ that caused so many to move west in search of gold
What is gold fever?
200
the act in which native American families were given portions of land in hopes of assimilating them into American culture
What is the Dawes Act
300
Native American tribe leader who refused to sign the Treaty of Fort Laramie
Who is Sitting Bull?
300
The first cowboys
What are the Vaqueros?
300
George Custer’s old regiment which slaughtered about 300 mostly unarmed native Americans at the Battle of Wounded Knee.
What is the seventh cavalry?
300
the name of the large movement of people to Nevada in search of silver
What is the Comstock Lode
300
This act promised 160 acres of free land for citizenship or intended citizenship in the west
What is the Homestead Act
400
The U.S. army handled the war between the Kiowa and Comanche tribes by doing this
What is moving the friendlies to reserves and killing all the others?
400
the major trade route from San Antonio, Texas, through Oklahoma, to Kansas
What was the Chisholm trail?
400
The two sides that fought in the war of 1812
What is Britain and America
400
A popular dessert that shares the name of the 1897 Alaskan-Canadian goldrush
What is klondike
400
the act of trying to rid native American’s of their natural culture and associating them into the U.S. civilization
What is Assimilation
500
Name of the war between the Kiowa and Comanche
What is the Red River War
500
The two main reasons for moving west
What is land and business ownership?
500
Recorded battles on Indian reservations
What is Little Bighorn, Fetterman Massacre, Wounded Knee, & the Sand Creek Massacre
500
The three main techniques of mining
What is placer mining, hydraulic mining, and hardrock mining
500
This act resulted in the massive migration of native Americans and the “trail of tears”