US History-Chapter 3 "Go West" -Gateway Book Review

This nickname was given to the Negro Cavalry by Native American tribes who fought in the Indian Wars.

• Cowboys

• Buffalo Wings

• Buffalo Chips

• Buffalo Soldiers

A type of steel fencing wire constructed with sharp edges or points arranged at intervals along the strand(s).

• Barcelona

• Open Range

• Barbed wire

• Boom town

The reasons that people leave an area of residence (persecution, ethnic cleansing, ect.)

• X Factors

• Pull factors

• Push factors

• Common Factors

The reasons that people move to a certain area (job opportunities, religious freedom, ect.)

• X Factors

• Pull Factors

• Push Factors

• Common Factors

Also known as Custer's Last Stand, the battle, which resulted in the defeat of U.S. forces during the Great Sioux War.

• Sand Creek Massacre

• Wounded Knee

• Homestead Act

• Little Big Horn

The collective name for the conflicts fought by the U.S. government & American settlers, against various Indian tribes.

• Frontier

• Open Range

• Indian Wars

• Boom town

In the Western United States and Canada, this land is rangeland where cattle roam freely regardless of land ownership.

• Open Range

• Great Plains

• Boom town

• Reservation

This key term is defined as “a region at the edge of a settled area”.

• Great Plains

• Frontier

• Reservation

• Homestead

160 acres of cheap land promised to settlers if they improved it for 6 months, and farmed it for 5 years.

• Ghost Town

• Frontier

• Homestead Act

• Cattle Kingdom

Congress passed this Act to "Americanize" the Indians. Each male Indian was able to claim 160 acres of reservation land

• Homestead Act

• Dawes Act

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Civil Rights Act