Chapter 5 - Cultures Clash on the Prairie

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What is the Great Plains?

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The grassland region of the United States

Front

The Dawes Act was a law that did what?

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Broke up Native American reservations

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The Battle of Wounded Knee was a massacre of which group? Apache, Sioux, Cherokee, Navajo

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Sioux

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The _______ allowed Native Americans to hunt more easily and to travel farther.

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Horse

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The _______ was a major cattle route from San Antonio, Texas, through Oklahoma to Kansas.

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Chisholm Trail

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Why did Indians and settlers fight each other?

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Over land and resources

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Who were the first cowboys in America?

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Spanish vaqueros

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What percentage of cowboys working the plains between 1866 and 1885 were African American?

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25%

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What did bad weather in the 1880s do to many ranches?

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Wiped them out

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Who were the exodusters?

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African-American settlers in the West