The West (post-Civil War)

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  1. 6. The Dawes Severalty Act led to the sale of Indian tribal lands; the land was allotted to individual Indians who _____ to American life
  2. 7. The precious metal sought by the 49ers in California and the 59ers in Colorado
  3. 9. This Act passed by Congress in 1862 attracted settlers to the West with grants of 160 acres of land for those who would live on it, improve it, and pay a small registration fee
  4. 11. The final battle of the Plains Wars was at _____ Knee in South Dakota; this military action was aimed at those involved in the Ghost Dance movement
  5. 12. _____ drive was when cowboys drove thousands of cattle to "cowtowns" where they were sold, loaded onto railroad boxcars, and shipped to eastern markets
  6. 13. At Little Bighorn this colonel and the soldiers of the 7th Calvary were massacred by the Indians.
  7. 15. _______ destiny is part of the story of America's frontier days and the motivating force to move west.
  8. 17. Impacted the Plains Indians' way of life as well as the environment; brought settlers, troops, farmers, and cattlemen to the West
  9. 18. Riches from this helped to fund the US fund the Civil War and the industrial revolution
  10. 19. Last name of man who wrote an essay called "The Significance of the Frontier in American History"
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  1. 1. The superintendent of the ______ in 1890 declared that there was no longer any discernible frontier line in America, in other words we're at the end of the frontier.
  2. 2. There were 15 million of these animals on the plains in 1865; by 1885 they were near extinction
  3. 3. The US military used these campaigns to drive the Indians from their lands and into reservations.
  4. 4. A huge silver deposit found in Nevada is called the ______ lode.
  5. 5. The Great _______ were the rolling grasslands from the southern border of Canada to central Texas
  6. 8. The open ________ allowed ranchers to graze cattle on vast expanses of rangeland without legal authority or fences to enclose stock
  7. 10. word that describes the railroad begun in 1862 and completed in 1869 to connect the western US to the eastern US
  8. 14. Small parcel of land that the federal government reserved for the Indians' use
  9. 16. This word describes the Plains Indian way of life, as they traveled from place to place, following the buffalo that they hunted.