Cultures Clash on the Prairie

Grassland extending through the west-central portion of the United States.

• Great Plains

• Acres

• Park

• The Wild Wild West

A treaty in which the Sioux agreed to live on a reservation along the Missouri river in 1868

• Treaty of Fort Laramie

• Reservations

• Dawes Act

Leader of the Hunkpapa Sioux

• Sitting Bull

• Eagle

• Hunkpapa

This Act aimed to "Americanize" the Native Americans. It broke up the reservations and gave some of the reservation land to individual Native Americans (160 acres each).

• Dawes Act

• assimilation

• Treaty of Fort Laramie

He reported that the Black Hills had gold

• George A Custer

• Sitting Bull

• Sioux

This event brought Indian Wars to a bitter end. It was a slaughter of 300 casualties (mostly Native Americans) where corpses were left to freeze on the battle grounds.

• Battle of Wounded Knee

• Chisholm Trail

• Battle of Sitting Bull

True or False:Texas is known for the Texas Longhorns. This breed is short tempered that is accustomed to dried grasslands.

• True

• False

True or False: Chisholm Trail is the major cattle route form San Antonio, Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas

• True

• False

This overland transport of the animals often lasted about 3 months.

• Long drive

• Short drive

• No dirve

True or False: Assimilation is a plan which Native Americans would give up their beliefs and way of life and become part of white culture

• True

• False