Chapter 5 Mr Blumer The West Test
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- transcontinental railroad
- a railroad from the east coast to west coast
- baqueros
- ranch hands who card for cattle and horses
- Cattle kingdom
- the area on which ranches were built, streched from TX to Canada
- Bonanza
- Large deposit of precious ore
- Texas Longhorn
- a sturdy breed of cattle, mix of English and Spanish
- Sitting Bull
- a souix leader, led battle of little bighorn with Crazy Horse
- Crazy Horse
- a chief who led a group of Souix to kill 81 calvary members in 1866
- Treaty of Medicine Lodge
- a treaty in which most of the Southern plains indians agreed to live on reservations, signed in 1867
- roundup
- gathering the cattle together for counting and branding
- Treaty of Fort Laramie
- the first major treaty, signed with Northern Plains Indians in Wyoming in 1851
- George Armstrong Custer
- killed by Souix indians in a battle find gold in 1874, Battle of Little Bighorn
- Pacific Railway Acts
- 1862 + 1864, gave railroad companies large land grants to be sold to offset construction costs
- Ghost Dance
- Invented by Wovoka, Paiute Indian. Indians beleived that if they did this dance they would be lead to a life free of suffering
- range wars
- fighting between large ranchers, small ranchers and farmers over
- reservations
- areas of federal land set aside for American indians
- Comstock Lode
- largest strike of gold and silver, over $500million, in nevada
- range rights
- water rights to water on a range (ponds, lakes, etc.)
- Joseph Glidden
- inventor of barbed wire
- dry farming
- farmers left a section of soil unplanted to retain moisture
- Morril act
- gave land to states, required them to sell it for money for colleges
- boomtowns
- communities that sprang up quickly when a mine opened
- Dawes General Allotment Act
- Separated Indian lands into plots, gave indians citizenship
- Battle of Little Bighorn
- the battle in which Custer's army and the Souix fought, resulting in all of Custer's Forces being wiped out. Also known as "Custer's Last Stand"
- Nat Love
- african American cowboy, wrote an autobiography
- Geronimo
- Chiricahau Apache, he and a small band of raiders left reservation and avoided capture until 1884.
- Pony Express
- used a system of messengers on horseback to carry mail on a route between realy stations
- Leland Stanfort
- central pacific part-owner, praised Chinese workers but paid them less than white workers
- cattle drive
- long journeys on which the cowboys herded the cattle to the shipped
- Joseph McCoy
- had the idea to ship cattle by rail
- Chisholm Trail
- one of the earliest and most popular cattle routes
- Sarah Winnemucca
- went to Washington DC to ask for reform for the American Indian Reservation System
- open range
- public land used for grazing cattle
- sodbusters
- farmers who did the hard work of breaking up sod
- Homestead Act
- gave gov't owned land to farmers
- Elizabeth Collins
- very sucessful rancher, named cattle Queen of Montana