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Module 2 Review
Westward Movement
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Comstock Lode | The name given to an 1859 gold and silver discovery in western Nevada which lured thousands of California miners to Nevada producing more than $500 million worth of gold and silver. |
| Cattle Kingdom | The name given to the Great Plains a vast open range of public land during the years when they supported great herds of cattle. |
| Transcontinental Railroad | The railroad across the United States |
| Chisholm Trail | A popular route for cattle drives from San Antonio to Abilene |
| Pony Express | A mail delivery system in which messengers transported mail on horseback across the country in the 1860s |
| Cattle Drive | One of the most important and dangerous duties of cowboys herding cattle to the market or to the Northern Plains. |
| Railroad | This helped create Time Zones in the United States. |
| Treaty of Fort Laramie | First major agreement signed with northern Plains nations that allowed forts and trails to be created. |
| Reservation | An area of federal land set aside for Native Americans. |
| Crazy Horse | The Sioux leader who violently protested reservations. |
| Treaty of Medicine Lodge | Name the document where the southern Plains Indians agreed to live on reservations. |
| Sitting Bull | The Sioux leader who defeated Custer at Little Bighorn. |
| George Custer | The army commander who lost to the Sioux |
| Massacre at Wounded Knee | The final battle between the Natives and the Government that occurred in 1890 in South Dakota. |
| Ghost Dance | A religious movement predicting a paradise/return to the Native way of life for Native Americans. |
| assimilate | Word means to give up traditional ways and adopt the ways of a different group. |
| Dawes Act | The act took almost 70% of reservations land to make it private for Native Americans instead of shared to lessen traditional influences and promised them citizenship |
| Black Hills | The discovery of gold in this region of South Dakota led to more conflicts between the Natives and the government. |
| Homestead Act | The act in 1862 that gave government land to farmers. |
| Merrill Act | The act in 1862 that gave government owned land to the states with the understanding that the states would sell the land to finance colleges. |
| Exodusters | African Americans who left the South for Kansas in 1879 were called? |
| sodbusters | What was the nickname given to Great Plains farmers because breaking the soil was such hard work? |
| longhorns | This animal was raised for profit due to it being resistant to Texas Fever and was a very durable and hardy animal. |
| Montana | The location of the Battle of Little Bighorn aka: Custer's Last Stand. |
| Colorado | The location of the Sand Creek Massacre. |
| Boomtowns | A community that undergoes sudden and rapid population and economic growth due to discovery of a mineral like gold or silver. |
| Placer | The simplest technique to extract gold is panning or _______ mining. |
| Dangerous | This word describes life in boomtowns for miners or for cowboys on the cattle trail. |
| Profit | The main reason why Texas Longhorns were moved to the north and shipped to the east coast. |
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