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Native Americans
Cattle Kingdom
Farmers
Railroad
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100
Many plains people lived in _____________ made of buffalo skins.
tepees
100
What settlers often wore chaps, sombreros, and lariats on cattle drives?
Cowboys
100
What 1862 congressional act made 160 acres of government land available to pioneers who agreed to settle there?
Homestead Act
100
Railroad line that connected the United States from coast to coast?
Transcontinental Railroad
100
What was a group of self appointed law keepers called?
Vigilantes
200
Many Native Americans were forced onto _________ during the late 1800’s
reservations
200
What was the name of the large cattle grazing area that stretched from Kansas to Montana in the 1870’s?
Cattle Kingdom
200
_____________ were formed to provide a social and educational outlet for farmers.
Farm Cooperatives
200
What is a government offer of land or money to a railroad company called?
Subsidy
200
What were towns that grew up almost overnight near mines called?
Boomtowns
300
Sioux leader ________________ defeated General George Custer at the Battle of Little Big Horn.
Sitting Bull
300
What type of cattle were used out West?
Texas Longhorn
300
_____________ were formed to provide a social and educational outlet for farmers.
Granges
300
What was the most significant economic impact of the transcontinental railroad during the late 1800s?
expanding interstate commerce (trade) nationwide
300
What are laborers from other countries who worked on the railroad called?
Immigrants
400
Plains Native Americans relied on ____________ for food, shelter, and clothing.
buffalo
400
Who helped cowboys to learn their skills in handling cattle?
Spanish vaqueros
400
What invention helped the sodbusters break through the thick soil of the plains?
steel lightweight plow
400
What caused the slow progress in building the transcontinental railroad?
Hazardous and inaccessible mountainous regions made work difficult
400
During the 1800s, the idea of Manifest Destiny was used to ___________?
support westward expansion to the Pacific
500
What was the purpose of the Dawes Act?
To force Native American to become farmers and be educated in schools
500
What brought an end to the open range cattle industry in the mid-1880's?
Barbed Wire, Weather, Locusts
500
What was the term for African Americans who moved to Kansas to become farmers?
Exodusters
500
In what state were the Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads joined by a golden spike in 1869?
Utah
500
What well known writer wrote about broken treaties between Native Americans and the U.S. government in her book A Century of Dishonor?
Helen Hunt Jackson