What is the name of the law that established the "reservation system" to remove tribes from lands in the west and open up areas for American settlement?

What is the name of the major community from the Montana gold strike of 1862?

Who was the American general in charge of the Indian removal and treaty making process?

Who is responsible for creating the Ghost Dance?

Who was the leader of the Nez Perce tribe that spoke to Congress and President Hayes in 1879 regarding Indian and U.S. relations?

A community that quickly springs up due to sudden prosperity

What was the name of the major gold strike in Alaska and the Yukon in 1896?

Who was the leader of the Sioux tribe at the Battle of the Little Bighorn?

A _______________ refers to the negative conditions that force people to leave their home.

What was the name of the Nevada silver strike of 1859?

What was the name of the Colorado gold strike of 1858?

What law open up settlement on the Great Plains by offering 160 acres after improving the land for 5 years?

What is the term given by ranchers and historians for the harsh winter of 1886-87 that led to the collapse of the Open Range ranching industry?

What is the name of the law that offered 640 acres of land for settlers in largely inhospitable, dry, and arid regions of the west?

What is the name of the law that established the removal process for Indian tribes in the southern United States?

What is the name of the battle in which the Sioux and Cheyenne tribes defeated Lt. Col. George Custer in June of 1876?

In which state was the first major gold strike in the United States in 1848?

What is considered to be the last major confrontation between the Plains tribes and the United States Army that led to the end of large scale resistance to American settlement of the Great Plains in 1890?

What is the name of the mining process used by early prospectors in gold rush boomtowns that focused primarily on surface gold but quickly played out?

What is the name of the law the increased the amount of acreage available to settlers on the Great Plains to 320 acres and decreased the amount of time required to 3 years?

The concept that railroad companies aggressively promoted and advertised for settling the Great Plains under the Homestead Acts is known as ________________________.

Early explorers referred to the Great Plains as the ____________________ due to the belief that it would not be able to support large scale settlement and development.

Which event marked the discovery of gold in California, leading to a massive influx of settlers in 1849?

Which act passed in 1862 encouraged westward expansion by granting land to settlers willing to farm it for five years?

What was the primary reason settlers moved to the Great Plains during the late 19th century?