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Transcontinental Railroad
What is the new form of transportation that went from the East to the West?
100
Native Americans
As settlers moved West who did they run into?
100
Buffalo
What animal did the Native Americans depend on?
100
hard dirt
What is sod?
100
True
True or False- The Trail of Tears is when 17,000 Cherokees were forced to leave their land and go to Oklahoma
200
frontier
What is an undeveloped piece of land?
200
reservations
This is areas of land reserved for the Native Americans
200
Sitting Bull
He was leader of the Sioux. He fought for the Native Americans to not give up land.
200
sodbusters
Who are the people that broke up the sod (hard dirt)?
200
white settlers, farmers, miners, cowboys
What types of people moved West?
300
land, gold
Why might someone move West?
300
Cherokee
This is a Native American tribe that were good farmers. They were forced to leave their home in the East.
300
Wounded Knee
What is the massacre called where the U.S. attacked and killed 150 Sioux Indians?
300
The government would give people 160 acres of land if they farmed it for 5 years
What is the Homestead Act?
300
False
True or False- The Native American population went up in the 1800's.
400
When a messenger carries mail on horseback
What is the Pony Express?
400
The Long Walk
What was it called when the Navajo tribe had to leave their home and walk for 300 miles?
400
Ghost dance
Peaceful (religious) dance by the Native Americans
400
Populist Party
What is the political party of farmers?
400
True
True or False- The Navajo tribe was from Arizona.
500
Comstock Lode
What is the place were silver and gold was found in Nevada?
500
Treaty of Fort Laramie
This treaty allowed the United States to build forts and travel across Native American lands.
500
Geronimo
This was the Apache Indian that was caught by the U.S. years later in 1886
500
160
How many acres of land did farmers get?
500
National Grange
What is social organization that helped farmers get out of debt?