Settlement + conflict on the Plains 1861-77

Question 1

Railroads and Ranches

when was the first transcontinental railroad built

Answer 1

1869

Question 2

Railroads and Ranches

purpose of the transcontinental railroad

Answer 2

help migrants go west, farmers set up on the plains, building of towns for new states

Question 3

Railroads and Ranches

how did railroad companies getting land impact native americans

Answer 3

split indian buffalo hunting territory

Question 4

Railroads and Ranches

how did tribes respond to railroad companies getting land

Answer 4

derailed trains + attacked so gov built forts

Question 5

Railroads and Ranches

why where new trails made after the civil war

Answer 5

railheads to supply meat to northern cities

Question 6

Railroads and Ranches

where did cow towns form

Answer 6

where trails met the railroad

Question 7

Railroads and Ranches

examples of cow towns

Answer 7

abilene

Question 8

Railroads and Ranches

common things in cow towns

Answer 8

gambling, prostitution, gunfights

Question 9

Railroads and Ranches

when were gun laws introduced

Answer 9

1870s

Question 10

Railroads and Ranches

when was beef bonanza

Answer 10

1880s

Question 11

Railroads and Ranches

what did cowboys become

Answer 11

farm labourers

Question 12

Railroads and Ranches

why did cowboys become farm labourers

Answer 12

barbed wire allowed huge ranches to fence off the best land

Question 13

How did homesteaders survive and thrive on the plains?

after the civil war, how many homesteaders took land on the plains

Answer 13

600,000

Question 14

How did homesteaders survive and thrive on the plains?

when + who passed the homestead act

Answer 14

1862 - Licoln

Question 15

How did homesteaders survive and thrive on the plains?

how many acres did the homestead act give

Answer 15

160 acres

Question 16

How did homesteaders survive and thrive on the plains?

what extreme climates were on the plains

Answer 16

droughts, locusts, prairie fires

Question 17

How did homesteaders survive and thrive on the plains?

how did they build houses

Answer 17

sod houses - dry blocks of earth with leaky grass roofs

Question 18

How did homesteaders survive and thrive on the plains?

examples of new technology

Answer 18

wind pumps- used
due to lack of water on the surface
dry farming ploughing through rainfall

Question 19

How did homesteaders survive and thrive on the plains?

when was barbed wire invented

Answer 19

1874

Question 20

How did homesteaders survive and thrive on the plains?

what did the invention of barbed wire mean

Answer 20

allowed homesteads to be fenced cheaply

Question 21

Why so much bloodshed on the Plains?

what was the uprising of the Little Crows war

Answer 21

Santee Sioux put on a small reservation

Question 22

Why so much bloodshed on the Plains?

impact of the little crow’s war

Answer 22

500 settlers killed, 38 santees hanged

Question 23

Why so much bloodshed on the Plains?

how many women and children died at Sand Creek

Answer 23

105

Question 24

Why so much bloodshed on the Plains?

how did the government cause bloodshed

+ how they solved it

Answer 24

-bozemen trails to gold mines broke fort Laramie treaty
- Red Cloud attacked forts until US made peace
- Black Hills granted to Sioux

Question 25

Why so much bloodshed on the Plains?

impacts of gold rush in the Black Hills

Sioux + US army

Answer 25

-Sioux refused to stay on reservations + killed Custer’s troops at Little Bighorn
- Us army hunted down bands of Indians + killed crazy horse