Battle in which Custer and all 220 of his men were ambushed and killed in a rare victory for Native Americans in the so-called “Plains Indian Wars”
What is Little Bighorn?
100
List one reason that would attract eastern farmers to western lands
What is
a) Availability of cheap, fertile land
OR b) Homestead Act
OR c) Opportunity (for exodusters, widows, etc.)?
100
He invented the steel plow
Who was John Deere?
100
Name of the farmers’ movement designed to fight back against the railroad companies’ unfair practices
What is the Grange?
100
Term that describes the movement of cattle across great distances
What is long drive?
200
Area of land east of the Rocky Mountains that is characterized by massive grasslands with little rainfall. It was once home to vast herds of buffalo.
What is The Great Plains?
200
The belief that expansion was a divine right
What is Manifest Destiny?
200
Cyrus McCormick’s invention that made it easier to harvest crops
What is the mechanical reaper?
200
Person who started an organization called the Patrons of Husbandry that would eventually turn into a larger movement
Who was Oliver Hudson Kelley?
200
Massive economic recession/depression that would be partially responsible for the demise of Populism
What is the Panic of 1893?
300
Animal critical to the survival of many native Plains tribes. They once roamed over 65 million strong
What are buffalo/American bison?
300
Granted 160 acres of land to any “head of household”
What is the Homestead Act?
300
He invented barbed wire
Who was Joseph Glidden?
300
Political party that came out of the organization known as the Grange
What is the Populist Party?
300
A gold OR silver standard that backs paper currency
What is bimetallism?
400
Final event of the Plains wars that left over 300 innocent women, children, and elderly dead in 1890
What is Wounded Knee Massacre?
400
Invention that was most responsible for the end of the open range/cowboy era
What is barbed wire?
400
It cut the travel time from east coast to west coast from 6 months to just 6 days!
What is the transcontinental railroad?
400
Democratic and Populist Party nominee for president in 1896
Who was William Jennings Bryan?
400
Law designed to assimilate Native Americans into “American” life
What is the Dawes Act (1887)
500
Spiritual movement that uses dance to bring back the spirits of the dead to fight on behalf of the living, to make the white colonists leave, and to bring peace, prosperity, and unity to Indian peoples throughout the region
What is the Ghost Dance?
500
African Americans who moved from the post-Reconstruction South to Kansas in search of a better life
Who are exodusters?
500
One way the train impacted Native American life on the Plains
What is
a) rapid western settlement
OR b) destruction of the buffalo?
500
His victory in the Election of 1896 brought an abrupt end to the Populist Party
Who was William McKinley?
500
Famous speech delivered by William Jennings Bryan that argued against a Gold Standard