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#10 - 1 famous lawman of the West

Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, Tom Smith, Allan Pinkerton, Bill Tilghman

#11 - 1 famous outlaw of the West

Bill the Kid, Jesse and Frank James, Black Bart, the Dalton Gang

#18 How did the Indians react to white settlement of the West?

attacks

#21 After what event did the America go on the gold standard?

the Civil War

#13 What animal did the Plains Indians depend on for their way of life?

buffalo

#20 What group of Americans did not like the gold standard?

Westerners (especially silver miners)

#16 What area of the West was the last to be settled?

The Great Plains

#1 - 3 Indians involved in the Battle of Little Big Horn

Crazy Horse, Gall, Sitting Bull

#17 What age group were most cowboys?

teen-young adult

#7 What did the Dawes Act do?

It wanted to assimilate the Indians into American life. It gave them 160 acres to farm.

#15 How did the Indians feel when the Dawes Act gave them their own 160 acres of land to farm?

They were not used to the idea of owning land; It was already their territory before the Dawes Act.; They got cheated out of it.

#4 - 3 groups that clashed with the cowboys

homesteaders, Indians, sheepherders, horse thieves and cattle rustlers

#12 - 3 problems the cowboys had

taxation by the Indians, drop in meat prices, overgrazing, extreme weather, barbed wire, sheepherders, horse thieves and cattle rustlers, stampedes

#14 What did the meatpackers do?

shipped fresh meat in ice and sent them East on the railroads

#19 What kind of houses did homesteaders build on the prairies?

sod houses, dugouts

#3 - 2 famous trails for cattle drives

Sedalia Trail, Chisholm Trail, Goodnight-Loving Trail, Shawnee Trail

#22 What is the gold standard?

only printing money that is backed by (represents) gold

#5 - What happened to Indians that did not resist the government and army taking over their land?

They became wards of the government. (protection, money)

#6 lots of land the government set aside for Indians to live on

reservations

#8 invented an easy way to make barbed wire

Joseph Glidden

#2 - 3 jobs a cowboy might have on the cattle drive

trail boss, point man, swing man, flank man, drag man, wrangler, cook

#23 - 3 problems for farmers/homesteaders on the Great Plains

soil erosion; no wood for housing, fires, fences; Indians; not enough rain; extreme weather; locust

#9 - 2 men that influenced the meatpacking industry

Philip Armour and Gustavus Swift