 What are the names of the two oceans that touch the U.S.?

Section 1- The Mining Booms

 Gold found here in 1885

 Rich streaks of ORE sandwiched between layers of rocks

 Rocks that contain minerals  What was the Comstock Lode? The streak of silver found in Nevada

 Found on the Carson River in Nevada

 Owned a share of the claim  Sold it for 11,000 and 2 mules

 Towns that grew overnight around mining towns

 Site of the Comstock Boomtown

 Citizens acting as a judge, jury, and executioner

 Deserted Boomtowns

 Grew between 1865 and 1890  The Government paid them to build tracks

 Financial aid from the government

 A train that could connect each coast  What are the names of the two coasts in the U.S.?  Atlantic, and Pacific

UNION PACIFICCENTRAL PACIFIC

 Eastern  Central  Mountain  Pacific

 Section 2

 Settled by the Spanish

 Cattle found in Texas  Tough enough to survive the desert and heat

 Not fenced or divided into property lots

 Near railroads so that the cows should be shipped east to bigger cities

 Hispanic ranch hands (cowboys)

 Gave 160 acres of land to any settler who paid the filing fee

 Owning a piece of land because you settled it

 The migration of freed slaves to the west

 Farmers on the plains  What is Sod?

 Planting seeds deep in the ground where there is some moisture

 Boomers went to Oklahoma to claim free land  Sooners got there first

 Section 3 – Begin Reading Chapter 18, Section III

GALLCRAZY HORSE

 People who follow their food

OMAHA OSAGE CHIEF BLACK DOG

SIOUX COMANCHE

 Worked like a city council

 The Indians used everything  The Settlers shot them for fun

 Pieces of land set aside for the Indians

 The lands set aside for the Sioux Indians to live on

 Was set up to manage all the Indian tribes

 Was the leader of the Sioux warriors

 Where Red Cloud and his warriors destroyed settler’s homes in 1862

 Were the original owners of the land where Mount Rushmore is today

 A route used by gold miners to get through Montana

 Joined Sitting Bull and the Cheyenne Warriors to attack Custer

 Leaders of the Sioux attacks on white settlers

 Where several Sioux warriors surrendered to the Army

 Leader of the Cheyenne who were attacked when they came in peace

 Led the attack on Black Kettle and the Cheyenne

 Located in North Dakota  Gold was found here and men came onto Sioux land to get it

 Leader of the Sioux  Refused to sell any land to U.S.

 When Sitting Bull, the Sioux leader, and Crazy Horse, the Cheyenne leader, attacked and killed General Custer and his men

 Led his men to a massacre by the Cheyenne at Little Big Horn

 The last of the Indians to surrender

 “I Will Fight No More…..”

 Forced the Native Americans off of their land and made them become farmers

 The last battle between the Armed forces of the U.S. and the Native Americans

 Section 4

 The first farmers association

 Stores where farmers bought products for each other

 The party of the people

 The unlimited production of silver coins

 Won the Presidential election of 1892

 Defeated William Jennings Bryan in the election of 1896