Westward Expansion Fast and Curious

Battle between U.S. soldiers, led by George Armstrong Custer and Sioux forces led by Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull; the worst defeat of the U.S. army in the West

• Battle of Little Bighorn
• Massacre at Wounded Knee
• Civil War Battle the Union won
• American Revolution

Method of farming used by Great Plains farmers in the 1890s that allowed them to grow certain crops with less water

• Windmills
• Dry farming
• Sod Houses
• Raising cattle

U.S. Army’s victory over the Sioux at Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota; ended U.S.-Indian wars on the Great Plains

• Civil War Battle the Union won
• Battle of Little Bighorn
• Massacre at Wounded Knee
• Custer's Last Stand

Federal lands set aside for American Indians

• National Parks
• Sod Houses
• Sodbusters
• Reservations

Name given to both the Plains farmers and the plows they used to break up the region’s tough sod

• Sodbusters
• Steel plows
• Windmills
• Ranchers

A railroad that crossed the continental United States, connecting the East to the West

• Sodbusters
• Transcontinental Railroad
• Amtrack
• Oregon Trail

Great Plains houses made of sod or dirt

• Dry farming
• Windmills
• Sod Houses
• Windmills

Great Plains Invention/Adaptation that used wind to pump water out of the ground

• Barbed wire
• Steel plows
• Windmills
• Solar panels

Leader of the Nez Perce tribe who fled to Canada trying to escape reservations but was caught at the border

• Chief Joseph
• Geronimo
• Powhatan
• Sitting Bull

A leader of the Sioux tribe who fought at the Battle of the Little Bighorn

• Powhatan
• Sitting Bull
• Chief Joseph
• Geronimo