17-2 and 17-3 Review

Question 1

reservation

Answer 1

Land set aside for Native Americans to live

Question 2

Battle of Little Big Horn (1876)

Answer 2

U.S. troops led by Col. Custer were killed by Native Americans in present-day Montana.

Question 3

Dawes Act (1887)

Answer 3

An attempt to make Native Americans start farming on Great Plains reservations by giving land to Native American men. Many Native Americans either sold the land or didn’t farm.

Question 4

Wounded Knee Massacre (1890)

Answer 4

U.S. troops killed over 200 Native Americans in present-day South Dakota. This event marked the end of the Indian Wars in the west.

Question 5

open range

Answer 5

Unfenced land

Question 6

cattle drive

Answer 6

Movement of cattle to a cow town where they would be sold and sent to market.

Question 7

cow town

Answer 7

Settlement at the end of a cattle trail

Question 8

barbed wire

Answer 8

Invention used by farmers to fence land and led to the end of the open range.

Question 9

Hardships faced on a cattle drive

Answer 9

Thieves, predators, the herd being spooked, drought and land being settled by farmers and fenced