Native American Battles
What was the uprising in Minnesota that resulted from a broken agreement about annuities?
Dakota Sioux Uprising
The discovery of a large silver mine called the Comstock Lode led to the statehood of which of the following in 1864?
Nevada
What invention ended the open range and divided the land into private ranches?
barbed wire
What federal program encouraged settlement on the Great Plains?
Homestead Act
A farmer who attempted to farm the plains by plowing is called what?
sodbuster
What was the 1,300 mile journey of Chief Joseph and his tribe to avoid the reservation called?
Flight of the Nez Perce
A town whose population rose rapidly after news of a mineral discovery was known as
boomtown
What is the Spanish word for cowboy?
vaquero
What was the nickname for Eastern Great Plains, much of the Dakotas, and Nebraska?
Wheat Belt
What was a practice in which a farmer planted seeds deep in the ground where moisture was present?
dry farming
What was the attack on Native Americans who had come to negotiate peace called?
Sand Creek Massacre
What mining technique used high pressure water to extract minerals beneath the surface?
hydraulic mining
What were huge ranches in California called? Spanish word
Haciendas
A very large, highly profitable wheat farm.
bonanza farm
Who were farmers that farmed land rented from someone else?
tenant farmers
What was the massacre of General Custer and his troops by the Lakota Sioux called?
Battle of Little Bighorn
What type of mining involves digging deep shafts? We use this type today.
quartz mining
What was the vast grassland owned by the federal government called?
open range
What happened when the government opened the last vast territory for settlement?
Oklahoma Land Rush
A scheduled payment. The government promised this to the Native Americans on reservations.
annuity
What was the deadly battle between the US army and the Sioux after the death of Sitting Bull and the ghost dancers?
Wounded Knee Creek
What was the major Nevada boom town during the 1860s?
Virginia City
What was the movement of cattle from Texas to Missouri for market called?
long drives
Name two inventions that helped farmers harvest more crops.
Stem tractor
Thrasher
etc..
To change someone to make them more like the group. This was done when Native AMerican children were sent to boarding schools.
assimilate