S.S

Question 1

Boomtowns

Answer 1

A communities that grew suddenly when a mine opened.

Question 2

Cattle Kingdom

Answer 2

Great Plains-Where many ranchers raised cattle in the late 1800s.

Question 3

Cattle Drive

Answer 3

Long journeys, cowboys herded cattle to the market.

Question 4

Cow Town

Answer 4

Town at the end of a cattle drive, where the cattle were held until put on a train.

Question 5

Transcontinental Railroad

Answer 5

Railroad that would cross the continent and connect the East to the West.

Question 6

Homestead Act

Answer 6

Gave government owned land to small farmers on the Great Plains.

Question 7

Fort Laramie Treaty

Answer 7

First major treaty between the U.S. government and Plains Indians that promised they could keep their land forever.

Question 8

Reservation

Answer 8

Areas of federal land set aside for Native American.

Question 9

Battle of Little Bighorn

Answer 9

Sioux forces led by Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull surrounded and defeated Custer and his troops.

Question 10

Massacre at Wounded Knee

Answer 10

U.S. Army shot and killed about 150 Sioux near Wounded Knee in South Dakota.

Question 11

Dawes Act

Answer 11

Legislation passed by Congress that split up Indian reservation lands among individual Indians and promised them citizenship.