Refers to the grassland extending through the west-central portion of the United States.
What is the Great Plains?
100
This group of people believe in private ownership of land.
Who are white settlers? or What is the U.S. government?
100
This large area of land was originally all set aside as a reservation for Native Americans.
What is The Great Plains?
100
1837 this man invented a steel plow that could slice through heavy soil. (hint: he likes green and yellow)
Who is John Deere?
100
The 7th calvary (Custer's old crew) rounded up 350 freezing starving Sioux and took them to this Creek in South Dakota.
What is Wounded Knee Creek?
200
This river is east of the Great Plains and has the Missouri River as one of its tributaries.
What is the Mississippi River?
200
This group of people believed in living in small extended family groups.
Who are Native Americans?
200
This trail ran directly through Sioux hunting grounds in the Bighorn Mountains.
What is the Bozeman Trail?
200
1847 Cyrus McCormick mass produced a machine to aid in collecting his crops.
What is a reaping machine?
200
This Act gave 160 acres of land away to any citizen or intended citizen who was head of household.
What is the Homestead Act?
300
This state found gold in the hills and mountains in 1858 prompting another rush for gold.
What is Colorado?
300
These Mexican cowboys influenced the clothing, food, and vocabulary of new Great Plains cowboys.
Who are the vaqueros?
300
This Colonel reported in 1874 that the Black Hills was filled with gold prompting a gold rush, he also sealed his fate with a miscalculation at Little Bighorn.
Who is George A. Custer?
300
This invention is common today but , this thorny break through, stopped hungrey cattle from attacking farmers crops, and helped "fence" in the West.
What is barbed fence/ barbed wire?
300
This man started the patrons of husbandry, an organization for farmers that provided a social outlet and educational forum for isolated farm families.
Who is Oliver Hudson Kelley?
400
This area was set aside as a reservation for the Native Americans, it was taken away after gold was found in it hills.
What are the Black Hills?
400
African Americans who moved from the post-Recontruction south to Kansas.
Who are exodusters?
400
A government Act that broke up reservations giving land to individual Natives forcing the idea of Private ownsership, the act meant to help "Americanize" the Plains Indians.
What is the Dawes Act of 1887?
400
This Act of 1862 abd 1890 gave federal land to the states to help finance agricultural colleges.
What is the Morrill Act?
400
This democratic nominee who delivered a speech known as the "Cross of Gold" speech and believed in bimetalism, the use of both gold and silver to back U.S. currency.
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
500
This tribe was massacred at sand creek while returning to the Colorado Sand Creek reverve for the winter, by dawn 150 people were killed, mostly women and children.
What is the Cheyenne tribe?( Arapaho were also present and will be accepted.)
500
The idea of backing U.S. currency with only gold is known as this.
what is the Gold Standard?
500
This movement of the people, demanded reforms to lift the burden of debt from farmers anad other workers and to give the people a greater voice in their government.
What is Populism?
500
This Act of 1887 helped to fund farming experiments to inform farmers of better planting techniques, and develop new equipment.
What is the Hatch Act?
500
The republican party stood behind the Gold standard and nominated this Ohioan for their presidential nominee.