17.1-17.3 review

What happened at Custer's Last Stand in the Battle of Little Bighorn?

• Custer killed all of the Lakota Indians.
• Custer and Sitting Bull made an agreement that the Native Americans Could have their land.
• Custer was killed, along with his entire force.

The Dawes Act...

• Allowed the Plains indians to continue their tribal traditions of following the buffalo herds
• divided the plains Indians tribal lands into family plots as a way to encourage assimilation
• provided 160 acres of free land to white settlers
• established the route for the Transcontinental railroad

The transcontinental railroad ______

• connected east and west
• connected north and south

When was the Dawes Act established?

• 1887
• 1945
• 1940
• 1850

Cowboys were

• All white

• All hispanic

• All former slaves

• A mix of all races working long hours and poor pay

What closed the open range?

• Fireproof doors

• Barbed Wires

• The Sheriff

• Elite Military units

The movement of cattle from the range to the railroads

• Barbed Wire

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Brands

• Cattle Drive

• Range Wars

payment of land or loans given by the government

• sod

• reservation

• subsidy

• farm cooperative

The name given to 1859 gold and silver discovery in western Nevada

• Comstock Lode

• boomtown

• Cattle Kingdom

Towns that serviced new mines and emptied when the mines closed were called

• frontier

• Chisholm Trail

• boomtowns