The West Flashcards
US Army General in command during the ‘Indian Wars’.
Phillip Sheridan
Led the 7 th Calvary at the Battle of the Little Big Horn
Colonel George Armstrong Custer
Native American chief who defeated Custer at the Little Big Horn.
Sitting Bull
Chief who helped defeat Custer at the Little Big Horn
Crazy Horse
Miners broke treaties when they entered these sacred lands of the Lakota Sioux. Their invasion of sacred lands led to the ‘Indian Wars’
Black Hills
Three important mines for gold rushes
Comstock Lode
Pike’s Peak
Deadwood
Apache chief who was captured in 1886 and sent to a fort in Oklahoma
Geronimo
What helped lead to the defeat of the Native American tribes?
The railroads
Killing the buffalo
Who owned the company that built the Transcontinental Railroad?
Leland Stanford
Which railroad did Leland Stanford own?
Central Pacific RR
Which railroad began in Omaha, Nebraska and went west to Promontory Point, Utah?
Union Pacific RR
Where did the Union Pacific and Central Pacific RR meet with ‘golden spikes’ in 1869?
Promontory Point, Utah
Immigrants from this country built much of the railroad from the West Coast. (Central Pacific)
China (Chinese)
Immigrants from this country built the railroad that began in Nebraska and headed west. (Union Pacific)
Ireland (Irish)
The name of the transcontinental line that went through Texas to Los Angeles, California
Southern Pacific RR
The practice of letting cattle graze freely on great cattle ranches was called.
Open Range
Farmers who settled on the plains and broke the sod with steel plows.
Their coming ended the Open Range
Sodbusters
Three inventions that helped the homesteaders…
Steel plow
Barbed wire
Windmill
In 1890 this event in Oklahoma led to the ‘End of the Frontier’?
Oklahoma Land Rush
The law of 1862 that encouraged people from all over the world to settle in the US because free land was given away.
Homestead Act
