US History: Settling the West Quiz

Supply point for mining areas in the Rocky Mountains

• Oklahoma Land Rush

• Denver

• Long Horns

• George Custer

• Chief Black Kettle

Leader of the Cheyenne who were massacred at Sand Creek

• George Custer

• Long Horns

• Oklahoma Land Rush

• Chief Black Kettle

• Denver

Destination for the 'long drive'

• Sedalia

• Denver

• Oklahoma Land Rush

• Long Horns

• George Custer

Cavalry commander at Little Bighorn

• Oklahoma Land Rush

• George Custer

• Denver

• Chief Black Kettle

• Long Horns

Lakota Sioux chief killed at Wounded Knee

• Long Horns

• George Custer

• Denver

• Sitting Bull

• Oklahoma Land Rush

Event in which thousands of people raced to stake claim for settlement after the government opened the last large territories up for settlement

• Long Horns

• Oklahoma Land Rush

• Chief Black Kettle

• Denver

• George Custer

Cattle that roamed wild on the grasslands of Texas

• Long Horns

• Denver

• George Custer

• Chief Black Kettle

• Oklahoma Land Rush

Chief who lured an army detachment into an ambush

• Denver

• George Custer

• Crazy Horse

• Oklahoma Land Rush

• Long Horns