Settlement Of The Plains

Question 0

Transcontinental

Answer 0

Something crossing a continent

Question 1

Reservation

Answer 1

Plots of land set aside by the government for Indians to live on.

Question 2

Ghost Dance

Answer 2

A Paiute Indian had a vision that if Indians performed a peaceful ceremony called the Ghost Dance, a cloud would appear carrying missing buffalo, children taken to eastern schools, and dead ancestors

Question 3

Wounded Knee

Answer 3

Chief Bigfoot led 350 others to convince Ghost dancers to remain peaceful. Army surrounded them at Wounded Knee Creek. 300 men, women, and children were killed

Question 4

Sand Creek

Answer 4

John Chivington claimed to have defeated 500 warriors, but instead defeated 200 old men, women, and children. Called a hero by American newspapers

Question 5

Little Bighorn

Answer 5

Custer attacked an Indian encampment of the Lakota and Cheyenne. Custer was outnumbered 10:1. Custer and the 7th cavalry were all killed.

Question 6

Fred Harvey

Answer 6

Opened a series of restaurants called the Harvey House along railroads

Question 7

Homestead Act

Answer 7

Provided 600 acres of free land if settlers would build a house on the land and live on it for five years

Question 8

Cattle drives

Answer 8

Herding cattle over long distances. The need for cattle drives ended when railroads extended down into Texas

Question 9

Effects of railroads on the country

Answer 9

• made shipping goods/traveling faster more efficient
• created more towns and jobs
• killed more buffalo