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10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt Indian People of the Great Plain Mining and Railroading The Cattle Kingdom Indians in Retreat Chapter 19 Pot Luck
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This is where many of the Native Americans lived
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What was the Great Plains?
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The Plains Indians lived in __________. (Fill in the blank)
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What was The Plains Indians lived in villages?
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This was the most important religious ceremony for the Plains Indians
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What was the Sundance?
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Name the great animal that roamed the plains
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What was the buffalo?
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Native Americans made triangular homes out of sticks and animal skins. Name the term used for these homes.
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What is a teepee?
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The term used to describe the movement out west for mining gold. This term also developed boom towns.
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What was the Gold Rush?
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It 1859 gold was discovered. This term was used to call the lode of gold Henry Comestock discovered.
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What was Comestock Lode?
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The term used to describe a person who moved out west in search of gold.
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What was a miner or prospector?
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The Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroad met at this place on May 10, 1869. They hammered a golden spike into the rail that joined the 2 tracks. Name this place.
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Where was Promontory Point
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The term “iron horse” used to describe this machine
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What was the railroad?
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The type of cattle that had long horns that roamed the plains
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What was a longhorn cattle?
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This was the most famous cattle trail
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What was the Chisholm Trail?
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This was a reason the cattle population died out
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What was the awful winter and summer of 1885?
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Cattle drives ended here
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What was a cow town?
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Give one reason for the end of the cattle boom
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What were the loss of grasslands, conflicts between sheepherders, and the terrible winter of 1885?
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The United States government broke this promise to the Indians
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What was promise of protecting the Indians hunting grounds?
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This is the name of the treaty the Americans broke against the Indians
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What was the Fort Laramie Treaty?
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The Indians refused to give up Pikes Peak. They attacked trains, burned, and killed many soldiers and common people. The American Army retaliated in this massacre.
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What was the Chivington Massacre?
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This was the term used to describe land that was set aside for Indians to live on by the American government
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What is a reservation?
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Give a reason the buffalo population on the Great Plains declined
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What was… hired Hunters killed thousands of buffalo to provide food for the railroad crews laying tracks across the prairie? buffalo hunting became a fashionable sport and commercial hunters shot Buffalo to make hide blankets?
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Name two roles that Women performed for the Plains Indians
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They made baskets and blankets. They made clothing, tepees and tools. They took care of the children. Women tanned Buffalo hides to make leather.
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This was he name of the political party that tried to regulate railroad rates and falling farm prices
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What was the Populist Party?
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Under this act, settlers were given 160 acres of land if they farmed it for five years
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What was the Homestead Act?
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In 1863, the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific began the race to build this railroad
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What was the Transcontinental Railroad
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In this battle Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse battled Colonel George Custer
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What was the Battle of Little Big Horn?
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