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| Homestead Act | Under this, the U.S. government offered up to 160 acres of land if it was lived on and cultivated. |
| Chief Joseph | This Indian Leader led his people in a long strategic retreat from the U.S. troop in an attempt to escape to Canada. |
| Cattle Drives | These started in Texas and ended at the Railhead in Kansas. |
| Prospector | This man would scout for areas with a high content of precious ores. |
| Dawes Act | This Act tried to assimilate Indians into White culture and give them U.S. citizenship |
| Locust | This bug came in huge swarms and devoured many crops on the Plains |
| Colonel George Custer | This man led the U.S. Cavalry against the Sioux at the Battle of Little Bighorn. |
| Exodusters | This group of African Americans left the racial discrimination in the South to start a new life in Kansas and Nebraska. |
| Joseph Glidden | This man created barbed wire which helped close off the open range as farmers fenced in their properties. |
| Bad Weather, Locusts, Drought | 3 issues that Homesteaders had to deal with on the Plains were what? |
| Longhorn | What type of cattle was most widely herded on cattle drives? |
| Boomtowns | In the West, mostly male Chinese, Irish, and Mexicans lived in these while searching for precious metals. |
| Barbed Wire | The creation of this closed off the Great Plains. |
| Railroads | This allowed for easy shipping and transport of people out West. |
