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Cowboys and Indians
The Frontier
Down on the Farm
Indians
Gone West
100
Demand for this product led to the growth of this industry
What is Beef?
100
Wood was scarce but these people were able to build shelter
What is Sodbuster
100
160 acres of land given cheap to farm
What is Homstead Act 1862?
100
What is it called when the American govenrment wanted to intergrate Native Americans into main stream society by abolishing their culture
What is assimilation or Americanize
100
former slaves that settled in the Plains, mainly Kansas
What is Exodusters?
200
The American Cowboy drew many of his customs from ranchers in this country
What is Mexico?
200
Year that the Californinia Gold Rush occurred.
What is 1849?
200
In order to reduce their expenses, farmers joined this, or groups that pooled their money to buy seed and tools at wholesale prices.
What is cooperatives
200
NAtive americans had to leave their land and live on
What is reservations
200
Grass lands that extend through central US
What is Great Plains?
300
Cowboy way of driving cattle to Railroads in the North
What is Long Drive?
300
farmers organization that demanded lower railroad rates
What is the National Grange
300
rich silver mines
What is Comstock Lode
300
Law or an Act intended to take away Native American culture and make them become farmers or more like the Americans.
What is the Dawes Act?
300
what was the impact of the transcontinental railroad? Give 2 examples
WHat is it killed off Native American culture and allowed poeple to travel and trade quicker and easier, communication was faster and safer.
400
American cattle herders learned their skills from Spanish cowboys are called
What is vaqueros
400
Late 1800's invention that closed in the open range
What is Barbed Wire?
400
2 examples of problems farmers faced on their farms in the Great Plains.
What is insects, shortage of wood, bad weather, fires
400
Name the Native American tribe whose buffalo were killed by the white settlers
What the Plains Indians
400
Farmers fix their problems by doing what? Two examples:
What is buying steel plows, joining groups to buy things at wholesale.
500
1 in 4 cowboys were what race?
What is African American,Native American
500
Name given to the Great Plains by early explorers and trappers
What is Great American Desert
500
What group of people settled in the Rockies, Sierra Nevad and Black Hills.
What is Miners
500
this was important to the Native AMericans because it , allowed them to travel and hunt faster.
What is the horse
500
What did native americans organize their life around?
What is the movement of buffalo