Great Plains

What is another name for the Great Plains?

Great American Desert

What were the Great Plains?

flat grassy plains ideal for buffalo that were the main source of Native livelihood

What were buffalo eventually replace by?

cattle and farmers

What was the Native lifestyle like?

nomadic

What does nomadic mean?

living without fixed habitation, regularly moving to and from areas

What two animals were important to the Native lifestyle?

horse and buffalo

What did buffalo mean to the Natives?

they survived on them, hunting them and harvesting all parts

What were Native communities like?

communal living, warrior values

What was a common use of the tribe's land?

hunting

Name some of the larger tribes from the Great Plains area.

Sioux, Lakota, Cheyenne, Apache, Nez Perce, Blackfeet

What is the Apache tribe famous for?

fighting for their land and having fierce warriors.

What law freely gave 150 acres of land to encourage people to go west?

Homestead Act of 1862

What was the Homestead Act?

gave 150 acres free to encourage people to go west; fed into Manifest Destiny

What did the Homestead Act lead to?

the massacre of buffalo herds

What was the significance of the building of the transcontinental railroad?

it connected the west to the rest of populated America and made transportation much easier and industry greater

What was the Central and Union Pacific Railroads?

first transcontinental railroad that connected existing railways in the east with the Pacific coast

What groups immigrated to the US in the 1860s?

Irish and Chinese

What is Promontory Point?

where the transcontinental railroad joins

Where is Promontory Point?

Utah

When was the transcontinental railroad completed?

1869

Where did the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads meet?

Promontory Point, Utah

Where was gold found in 1874?

the Black Hills of Dakota

What was the Black Hills of the Dakotas?

a reservation

Who tried to defend the Black Hills of the Dakotas?

the Sioux

Who did the US army send to fight the Sioux in the Dakotas?

George Armstrong Custer

What would be George Armstrong Custer's downfall?

hubris

When was Little Bighorn?

1876

What was Little Bighorn?

Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull led warriors against Custer, killing him and all his men

Who were the lead Sioux warriors in Little Bighorn?

Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull

Who were the Nez Perce Indians?

indigenous tribe that refused to go to reservation

Who led the Nez Perce Natives?

Chief Joseph

What tribe was chased by the army for over 1000 miles until they were captured?

Nez Perce

What is Chief Joseph famous for saying?

I will fight no more forever

Who is famous for saying "I will fight no more forever"?

Chief Jospeh

What is the meaning of "I will fight no more forever"?

Chief Joseph's life was a long fight; it was finally over and would not continue into other generations

What is assimilation?

the process in which a minority group or culture comes to resemble or assume the values, behaviors, and beliefs of another group