Chapter 17

6. State admitted to the Union as a state in 1864
8. Culture that the American cowboy was modeled after
9. A term used to describe an African American who moved to Kansas from the Old South to escape the racism there
11. The phrase which came to stand for the idea that white Americans had a calling and a duty to seize and settle the American West with Protestant democratic values
12. Trail that provided a quick path from Texas to railroad terminals in Abilene, Wichita, and Dodge City, Kansas, where cowboys would receive their pay
14. The state in which the two railway companies connected their tracks
15. The period between 1848 and 1849 when prospectors found large strikes of gold in California
17. The treaty that moved the remaining Sioux to the Black Hills in the Dakota Territory
18. The first significant silver find in the country
19. An attempt to disarm a group of Lakota Sioux Indians near Wounded Knee, South Dakota, which resulted in members of the Seventh Cavalry of the U.S. Army opening fire and killing over 150 Indians
20. The Spanish name for White Caps
23. Insect that swarmed Kansas in 1878 that destroyed all plants
26. The act that commissioned the Union Pacific Railroad to build new track west from Omaha, Nebraska, while the Central Pacific Railroad moved east from Sacramento, California

1. The armed conflict between cowboys moving cattle along the trail and ranchers who wished to keep the best grazing lands for themselves that occurred in Clay County
2. The treaty that moved the Cheyenne, Arapaho, Kiowa, and Comanche to “Indian Territory,” later to become the State of Oklahoma
3. Maker of the first steel-faced plow
4. A frontier home constructed of dirt held together by thick-rooted prairie grass that was prevalent in the Midwest
5. Famous chief. known to his people as “Thunder Traveling to the Loftier Mountain Heights,” who was the chief of the Nez Perce tribe, and had realized that they could not win against the whites
7. The process by which an Indian was changed into the American way of life by changing his clothing to western clothing and renouncing his tribal customs in exchange for a piece of land
10. A large farm owned by speculators who hired laborers to work the land; these large farms allowed their owners to benefit from economies of scale and prosper
13. A militia raid led by Colonel Chivington on an Indian camp in Colorado
16. Writer of Little House on the Prairie
21. The Act that allowed any head of household, or individual over the age of 21, including unmarried women, to receive a parcel of 160 acres for only a nominal filing fee
22. Used by ranchers to section of land; called devil's rope by the Indians
24. State admitted to the Union as a state in 1876
25. First person to find silver in 1859 in Nevada