Topic 16 Flashcards
Name early explorers sent out by President Jefferson to map the Great Plains
Lewis & Clark
Name given to the eastern boundary of the Great Plains
Mississippi River
The Natural vegetation of the great Plains.
Grass
Name the animal that supplied the Plains Indians with most of their needs.
Buffalo
Name the fast riders who carried letters between California and Missouri.
Pony Express
Name the western boundary of the Great Plains.
Rocky Mountains
What is the nickname of the Great Plains
The Great American Desert
What did the Native Americans believe that people could not own
Land
Name the men who moved cattle from place to place.
Cowboys
Name the place where the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific railroads met
to form the transcontinental railroad.
Promontory Point, Utah
Name the occupation that government agents wanted Native Americans to take up
Farming
Name the Native Americans who lived in the area of Kansas and Nebraska.
Pawnee
Name the mountainous area shared by South Dakota and Wyoming.
Black Hills
What do you call it when cattle run away, out of control.
Stampede
People who travel from place to place, as most Plains Indians did.
Nomads
Name the army commander killed at the Little Bighorn.
General George Armstrong
Custer
Name the most important river on the Great Plains.
Missouri
Name the period of time that homesteaders had to live on the land before it
belonged to them.
Five Years
Name the leader, but not chief of the Native Americans at the Little Bighorn
Crazy Horse
Name the famous fort in western Wyoming.
Fort Laramie
