Important Statistics

Question 1

How many Indians moved to the west of the Mississippi river because of the Indian removal act

Answer 1

46,000

Question 2

When was the Oregon Trail first publicised and by who

Answer 2

1925, Jedidiah Smith

Question 3

How many died along Oregon Trail

Answer 3

20,000

Question 4

How many people went to California and in what month

Answer 4

In April, 100,000 people went to California

Question 5

What was California population by 1855

Answer 5

300,000

Question 6

How many migrants were in the donna party

Answer 6

300

Question 7

How many died in the Donner party

Answer 7

40

Question 8

When were Mormons ordered to leave Illinois

Answer 8

1845

Question 9

The Treaty of Fort Laramie, how much were tribes paid annually

Answer 9

50,000

Question 10

When did the union defeat the congruency

Answer 10

1865

Question 11

How much was it for a white

Settler to register a claim in the Homestead act

Answer 11

$10

Question 12

How many acres were offered in the Homestead act

Answer 12

160 acres

Question 13

What could homesteaders do after a certain amount of time

Answer 13

After five years, if they had built a house and planted 5 acres of crops, they could pay $30 to own it

Question 14

How much land had been given from the Homestead act in 1876

Answer 14

6 million

Question 15

What was the limitation of the Homestead act

Answer 15

Only 13,000,000 acres were approved up by 1884

Question 16

How much land of the government grant to railroad

Answer 16

300,000,000 acres, the rest was sold to cattle ranchers

Question 17

How many Germans moved to Kansas because of the Pacific railroad act

Answer 17

60,000

Question 18

When and how much did railroad companies settle

Answer 18

By 1880 they settled 2p0 million acres in the west

Question 19

When did Illiff buy land and from where

Answer 19

1866, near Denver

Question 20

When had he built up a herd on Colorado plains

Answer 20

1870

Question 21

How big was illiff’s Colorado plains heard

Answer 21

26,000

Question 22

Where and when did Illiff sell beef

Answer 22

In mining towns in 1872

Question 23

What contract did Iliff win

Answer 23

In 1872 he won a contract to provide beef for a Sioux reservation of 7000

Question 24

How much land were homesteaders allowed to claim in the timber culture act

Answer 24

A further 160 acres

Question 25

How many acres were claimed by the timber culture act

Answer 25

10 million

Question 26

What happened because of the timber culture act by 1878

Answer 26

It added 50% more land to that already claimed under the Homestead act

Question 27

How many exodusters set off for Kansas and Missouri and when was this

Answer 27

By 1879 40000 had moved

Question 28

How much savings did homesteders need to start up

Answer 28

$800-$1000

Question 29

Who invented the self governing windmill

Answer 29

Daniel Halladay

Question 30

When was barbed wire widely used

Answer 30

Not until after 1880

Question 31

What percentage of the open range perished in the great doe up

Answer 31

15%

Question 32

How much were Indians allotted from the Dawes act

Answer 32

160 acres

Question 33

By 1890, how much land did Indians lose form the Dawes act

Answer 33

They lost half of the land they had in 1887

Question 34

How many Indians were killed in the wounded knee massacre

Answer 34

146

Question 35

How many landrusges were there in Oklahoma

Answer 35

7

Question 36

What was the largest Oklahoma landrusg

Answer 36

1893: 8 million acres

Question 37

How many men did the WSGA plan to kill

Answer 37

70 men