Wild West Multiple Choice Flashcards
Importance of Buffalo in the Great Plains
They could be used for tools, shelter, clothing, wax, glue, there stomachs could carry water, etc
Cavalry
Soldiers on horseback
What is a sooner?
Someone who cheated during the Oklahoma land rush
Cherokee Trail of Tears
Due to the Indian Removal Act of 1830, Indians were forced out of there own land. 4000 of the 13000 died, most died from exposure. Had to go from Georgia all the way to Oklahoma.
N-A Tribes and the Great Planes
Pacific Northwest: Klamaths, Chinooks, Shastas
New Mexico and Arizona: Pueblos and Navajo
Plain Indians: Sioux, Black Feet, Crows, Cheyenne, Camanches
Pratt and N-A Assimilation into White Society
To save a man, kill the indian
Conflict over land Whites and N-A’s
White: Will serve the growth of the nation
N-A; It is their territory to hunt and do as they please
Population Diversity of the Wild West
Native Americans, African Americans, Caucasian
John Wesley Powell and WATER
Noticed lack of water
US Territories In The West
Arizona, Oklahoma, Utah, Hawaii, Alaska and New Mexico
Bill Pickett and Bull-Dogging
Technique on bringing down a raging steed
The “Ghost Dance”
N-A’s believed this dance would give them their land back and they crops and animals and made them invisible to their enemies
The Morrill Act
Created land grant colleges
Technology and the Development of the West
Steel Head Plow, Grain Drill, Barbed Wire
Pushing N-A’s off the Great Plains: Factors
Reservations kept them in certain regions
