front 1 unsettled land that mostly Idians lived in. Americans wanted to make war over this land because most believed in manifest destiny. | back 1 Frontier |
front 2 Land that spreads from the Missouri river to the Rocky Mountains. | back 2 Great Plains |
front 3 A town that all of the sudden, population and economy growth from gold and silver strikes. | back 3 Boomtowns |
front 4 The cattle are driven to cow towns along the railways. | back 4 Long Drive |
front 5 the first cowboys. | back 5 Vaqueros |
front 6 A person who carried a gun around and shoots random people without a trial | back 6 vigilante |
front 7 Land reserved for native americans by the federal government (no one else wanted the land) | back 7 Reservation |
front 8 A surprise attack from Americans to Indians. They rode on their horses in a circle around them and shot them. | back 8 Sand Creek Massacre |
front 9 A Native American leader that fled with his followers to Canada. Chief of the Sioux tribe. Helped defeat George A custer. | back 9 Sitting Bull |
front 10 Officer in the union army and is famous for dying at the biggest loss in the US against the Indians. | back 10 George A. Custer |
front 11 The death of Custer and his troops became a rallying point for the United States to increase their efforts to force native peoples onto reservation lands. Indians big victory. | back 11 Battle of the Little Bighorn |
front 12 ended armed resistance in the West. | back 12 Wounded Knee Massacre |
front 13 stop communal land sharing, forced families to separate, and forced assimilation of Indians (blending into a new culture), forced by sending them to boarding school and bringing them away from families. | back 13 Dawes Act |
front 14 A piece of land with a house on it in a barely populated area. Built the house themselves. | back 14 Homestead |
front 15 Mexican speaking southerners. | back 15 Mexicano |
front 16 a buffalo hunter that turned into a showman and brought the West to the rest of the world through his Wild West show (most of the info were myths). | back 16 William ¨Buffalo Bill¨ Cody |
front 17 Black American soldiers who controlled planes, etc. stationed in national parks, shot buffalo, became first park rangers. | back 17 Buffalo Soldiers |
front 18 This law offered 160 acres of land free to anyone who agreed to live on and improve the land for five years. They did this because they wanted to increase white population to outnumber indians. | back 18 Homestead Act |
front 19 African Americans (former slaves) migrated to the west to find land for themselves and compared themselves to hebrews. | back 19 Exoduster |
front 20 The people who live in a house with sod as the top layer of prairie soil that is thickly matted with grass roots. | back 20 Sodbuster |
front 21 The group’s main purpose at first had been to meet the social needs and cooperatives of farm families who lived great distances from one another. | back 21 Grange |
front 22 a business that is not owned by an owner, owned by the workers. | back 22 Cooperatives |
front 23 wanted the government to adopt a free silver policy and represented the interests of farmers (inflation). | back 23 Populist Party |
front 24 the government backs every dollar with a certain amount of gold. Only a certain amount of money could be made. | back 24 Gold Standard |
front 25 supported gold, most famous populist, supported farmers, tried to be president 3 times and lost all times. | back 25 William Jennings Bryan |
front 26 List several states which were in the Great Plains: | back 26 Piece of land between the rocky mountains and Missouri river (South Dakota, North Dakota, part of Texas, Nebraska, Kansas, part of Oklahoma, part of new mexico). |
front 27 Myths about the Wild West vs. the historic reality: | back 27 Life in the West was full of adventure and excitement (only ever saw immediate family). There were many gun fights in the west (they were rare). Most people in the west were rich (only a small amount) |
front 28 Lives of the Sodbusters. Give a couple of examples of hardships they faced: | back 28 The lives of sodbusters were very harsh, full of work, and boring. They faced hardships like finding a reliable water source. |
front 29 How were the lives of pioneer women different from those of women in eastern cities? | back 29 Women in the west weren’t given much recognition for helping farms, ranches, etc while women in eastern cities had more recognition and independence. |
front 30 How a farming cooperative works: | back 30 a business owned by everyone who works there. The negotiated with others a lot |
front 31 Economic opportunities which drew people to the West: | back 31 cattle ranching, working on railroads, working to provide services. |
front 32 Economic opportunities which drew people to the West (continued): | back 32 The fur industry |
front 33 Economic policies of the Populist Party, give 2 examples: | back 33 free silver, inflation, and regulating railroads |
front 34 Effects of white settlement on the lives of Plains Indians: | back 34 White settlers forced them on reservations, removed their power, wiping out buffalo, reservations, stopping their traditional way of life. |
front 35 How the US Government encouraged western settlement: | back 35 Land grants and loans |