Three goups that Indians experienced tension and conflicts with in The West.
Who were Buffalo Hunters, Railroads and the U.S. Government?
100
The western half of the two railroad companies that built the transcontinental railroad.
What wasthe Central Pacific?
100
The procedure cattle owners used to get their steers to market from West Texas.
What were cattle trails or cattle drives?
100
The name given to Black soldiers serving in the U.S. Army in The West.
What were "buffalo Soldiers"?
100
The superior tactician and general at Montana's Battle of the Little Big Horn.
Who was Sioux Chief Sitting Bull?
200
The leader of the Nez Perce who led his tribe towards Canada, including women and children, on a thousand mile march to avoid moving to a reservation in the Northwestern United States.
Who was Chief Joseph?
200
The place where the two railroads building the transcontinental railroad met on May 1o, 1869.
What was Promontory Point, Utah?
200
The two new inventions that helped farmers homestead the Midwestern prairies.
What are the the prairie fan or water pumpand steel plow or sod buster?
200
The immigrant group that worked and died building the Central Pacific Railway.
Who were the Chinese?
200
The last Native American Chief to fight, in a hopeless cause, a war against the United States Army.
Who was the Apache Chief Geronimo?
300
The treaty that was passed by the U.S. Congress, in 1851, and passed under the same name a second time in 1868,forcing Indians to move to Reservations.
What were The Treaties of Fort Laramie?
300
The railroad company that built westward in the drive to build a transcontinental railway in the 1860's.
What was The Union Pacific?
300
The product invented by Joseph Glidden to protect property rights.
What is barbed wire?
300
The battles between Chinese groups that got it's name from the Chinese word for: "meeting hall".
What were the Tong Wars (1850-1920)
300
His likeness, astride a mighty steed ,will rival that of four American presidents chiseled and dynamited into the Black Hills as he points towards his Lakota homeland.
Who is Crazy Horse?
400
The hills that gold was discovered in by white miners in 1874 that would cause Custer's demise when he fought a war to protect White miner's access to.
What are the Black Hills of South Dakota?
400
The reason railroads felt rushed to complete the transcontinental railway.
What were the land grants provided by the U.S. Congress for companies building new Western railways.
400
The two groups that fought in the range wars.
What were the cattlemen/ranchers and sheepherders?
400
The Exclusion Act of1882.
What Federal Law expelled Chinese workers back to China?
400
The U.S. Army Colonel that ordered his men to: "Kill and scalp them all, big and little!" at the Sand Creek Massacre.
Who was John Chivington?
500
The year the American Western Frontier "closed" to further homesteading and expansion.
What was 1890?
500
The railroad baron, Leland,who established a famous California University named for his largesse in supporting this university's founding.
Who was Mr. Leland Stanford?
500
The nickname given to Freedmen farmers from the South that had moved west to escape the abuses of the KKK and the hated Black Codes.
What were Exodusters?
500
Fort Apache, Fort Thomas and Fort Grant II
What Western U.S. Army forts were manned by Buffalo Soldiers?
500
He stated in The Signifigance of the American Frontier that Americans were a unique breed of humans made special by their experiences in settling the Western Frontier.