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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?