Wild Wild West

Question 0

How did the Plains Indians hunt the Buffalo?

Answer 0

Before the 16th century there were no horses so the Indians hunted on foot.
With horses Indians could Kill more Buffalo
By the 19th century guns were sold to the Indians which helped with hunting

Question 1

How did the Plains Indians use the buffalo?

Answer 1

Food- buffalo meat could be preserved by drying and dried buffalo dung was used as cooking fuel
Clothing – Buffalo skins provided clothes and shoes
Shelter- the teepees were made of buffalo hide

Question 2

How did the Plains Indians live in a family?

Answer 2

Indians lived in small groups or bands of 10 to 50 families.

Question 3

What were roles of children?

Answer 3

Children were taught the things they needed to know to be adult Indians. Boys learned from the war men and girls from their mothers

Question 4

What were the role of men in Plains Indian life?

Answer 4

Men looked after horses defended camp and hunted buffalo.

Question 5

What were the role of women?

Answer 5

Women like after the teepee, the children, food, water, making clothing.

Question 6

What was the role of the elderly?

Answer 6

The old and sick were looked after but if they were too old they were sometimes left to die

Question 7

How were the Indian tribes and nations arranged?

Answer 7

Each band belong to a tribe
Several tribes made up a nation

Each tribe had a chief did he did not force dictatorship.

Question 8

What were the beliefs of the plain Indians?

Answer 8

The Indians believed that everything had a spirit. This meant the environment should be treated with respect.
Only take from nature what you needed
The great spirit gives life to everything

Question 9

What were visions?

Answer 9

Indians believed you could contact the spirit through visions.
Women use their visions to heal.
Young men got their adult name from the animal they saw in visions.

Question 10

Why does the circle important?

Answer 10

The circle was important as a symbol of the circle of life- the seasons, the moon and the sun; and life and death.

Question 11

What did the buffalo provide the Native Americans?

Answer 11

Three basic human needs- food, water and shelter

Question 12

How did the Plains Indians fight?

Answer 12

They believed the great spirit owned land so they did not fight to control.
The Indian weapons could kill but were decorated
They had to respect the individual skills on horse

Question 13

Who were the mountain men?

Answer 13

Mountain men lived in mountain areas hunting animals to make hats

Question 14

Why were there early settlers?

Answer 14

Mountain men killed animals for so so it could be sold at a high price. The Indians also killed animals to sell to the mountain men for trade.
The mountain men told people in the east there was a lot of good farming land available.

Question 15

Why did people rush to mining areas?

Answer 15

The discovery of gold caused thousands of men to become rich. The main gold rush was California 1848.

Question 16

How did the Gold rush affect the west?

Answer 16

Following the 1848 rushed to California more people move to the west.

Question 17

What problems did miners face?

Answer 17

Mining for Gold was difficult
Miners had very minimal tools
There was no law and order to claim the particulate area

Question 18

Were miners migrants?

Answer 18

Almost all men
Wanted to get rich quick
Moved- didnt stay in one place for gold
They moved back home

Question 19

Who were the Homesteaders?

Answer 19

Who stands the people who moved to the great Plains to farm

Question 20

Push factors for the homesteaders.

Answer 20

Ex soldiers of the American Civil War wanted a new start
Ex-slaves wanted a new life
Defeated Southerners also wanted a new life
Land prices in the east rose
Europeans wanted to escape poverty
There was minimal employment

Question 21

Pull factors for Homesteaders.

Answer 21

The 1862 Homestead act give free land of 160 acres providing they lived for 5 years on it.
Railway companies wanted to sell land near the railroads
Indians had been cleared off the land and put in reservations

Question 22

What problems did Homesteaders face?

Answer 22

They have to build a house without wood.
Water was scarce
The climate was extreme
Fuel was very expensive.

Question 23

What problems did homesteaders face farming?

Answer 23

Land had never been ploughed before
Water shortage meant crops die
Hazards would destroyed crops in hours

Question 24

How did homesteaders solve the problems?

Answer 24

Wind pumps through water from deep soil
New methods to conserve moisture
Hard winter wheat was introduced by Russian immigrants
New machines were invented like the combine harvester in 1872

Question 25

What were the women Homesteader’s roles?

Answer 25

This helped with farming
They did cooking washing and cleaning
The lead isolated lives
It took a leading role into setting up communities

Question 26

Who were the Donner party?

Answer 26

There were a group of pioneers who set out to California in a wagontrain
During a series of mishaps they resorted to cannibalism to survive.

Question 27

What factors influenced the cattle industry?

Answer 27

The railroads could transport cows and people to towns
The Indians were all in reservations so they were less likely to read the cattle
The US Army needed rations for the soldiers
The demand for beef rose

Question 28

Who was John Illif?

Answer 28

He had 1,000,000 acres and 100,000 cows

Question 29

Who was Charles good night?

Answer 29

He drove the herd to fort summer to sell to the army

Question 30

Who was joseph McCoy

Answer 30

He built a town called Aberline and transported cows there in 1867

Question 31

Who were the Mormons?

Answer 31

The Mormons were led by Joseph Smith a prophet from the 1800s
They believe in the book of Mormon read from golden tablets and evangelise those who don’t believe
They avoid temptations such as cola and caffeine

Question 32

What were the golden tablets?

Answer 32

These were the basis for the book of Mormon

Native Americans were Israeli tribes who were punished by having their skin dyed red by God for being violent

Question 33

Why did the Mormons move west?

Answer 33

1831 Ohio the Mormons were bankrupt and driven out
1837 Missouri they were attacked by mobs
1839 Illinois Smith was killed by mobs and the group was attacked
1847 great salt lake city no one had lived there before

Question 34

Who were the Cowboys?

Answer 34

They would look after the cattle
Rounding up
Patrol boundary
Repair fences
Shoot predators
Brand animals
Horsemanship
Solitary life
Low wages
Thieve & murderer
Manual labour

Question 35

When did war occur?

Answer 35

1803 all natives moved to a Louisiana
1851 to 67 the pioneers came
1851 fort Laramie Treaty define the areas where the natives could hunt
1850s for settlers lived in Nebraska
1862 miners broke the treaty
1862 Homestead act
1865 to 68 Redcloud war
1862 Laramie Treaty. this passed the railroad
1869 Arapaho killed miners
1863 Cheyenne war
1864 sand Creek massacre
1867 Alapaha and Cheyenne move to the reserves
1869 the Transcontinental Railroad
1876 gold was found in the Black Hills
1876 great Sioux War
1877 last Sioux surrendered
1885 or Indians on reserves