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2. What Animal was very important to the Indians way of life?

3. Buffalo

4. Land set aside for Native Americans to live on is called _____________.

5. reservations

6. Name three ways that Native Americans used buffalo

7. Food, shelter, clothing, tools, toys, thread, bowstrings, etc.

8. The _____________ was a way for Native Americans to restore hope that they could return to their old ways of life.

9. Ghost Dance

10. The Battle of ______________ marked the end of the era of Indian Wars.

11. Wounded Knee

12. What was the name of the railroad that was built by the Central Railroad and the Union Pacific Railroad?

13. Transcontinental Railroad

14. What is one reason why railroad companies hired immigrants to build the Transcontinental Railroad

15. It was hard to find men to work since it was during the Civil War and the pay was low

16. The town in which the transcontinental railroad was connected?

17. Promontory, Utah

18. What is one way that the government encouraged railroad building?

19. Gave money and land grants to railroad companies

20. What was Comstock Lode and tell one thing about the man it was named after

21. Comstock Lode was an area where gold and silver was found. Henry Comstock was a con artist and died poor.

22. How many cattle out of ten died because of the cold in the winters of 1886-1887?

23. 9 out of 10

24. The invention and use of ______ helped bring an end to cattle drives and the way of life for Cowboys Daily Double

25. Barbed Wire

26. As part of the myth of the west, Easterners called it the…

27. Wild West

28. American cowhands learned much about riding, roping, and branding from whom?

29. Spanish and Mexican Vaqueros (cowboys)

30. One of the most famous cattle trails was called this: The __________ Trail

31. Chisolm

32. Many Indians living in the US in the late 1800s were forced to live on ______________

33. reservations

34. Because of the Ghost Dance, some Indians believed that the shirts they wore were ________

35. Bulletproof

36. What Indians capture by the federal government marked the end of formal warfare between Indians and whites?

37. Geronimo

38. Who was warned that there were close to 3,000 Indians, and he had only 225 men, and attacked them anyway?

39. George A. Custer

40. Approximately, how many men, women, and children were slaughtered at the Chivington Massacre

41. 100

42. ______________ was the state that had a land rush in 1889 that brought thousands of settlers.

43. Oklahoma

44. The __________ Act encouraged people to move out West because it offered free land for anyone willing to farm on it.

45. Homestead

46. What was set up to boost farm profits and to lower shipping charges for grain? The National ___________ Daily Double

47. Grange

48. The Farmer’s Alliance, National Grange, and the _________Party all helped farmers push for higher prices and other economic reforms.

49. Populist

50. Foreign immigrants to the West worked as __________, railroad workers and miners, but not as soldiers

51. Cowhands or cowboys