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Monday, December 26, 2016

Chapter 41: American Buffalo, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

Book: Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History
Author: Bill Price
ISBN: 978-1-77085-427-7


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Chapter 41: American Buffalo


Answer Key

1. The Lakota people migrated into the Great Plains in 1650.
2. The Lakota people are part of the Great Sioux Nation.
3. In the 1730s the Lakota people relied on the buffalo when the neighboring Cheyenne introduced them to the horse.
4. In 1803 for $15 million, Napolean Bonaparte bought the Great Plains in the Louisiana Purchase.
5. The Treaty of Fort Laramie of 1851 was the treaty that guaranteed safe passage to wagon trains.
6. The Great Sioux War took place in 1876.
7. Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse led the Great Sioux War of 1876.
8. The Battle of the Little Bighorn was fought in June 25-26, 1876.
9. George Armstrong Custer and 267 US Soldiers died in the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
10. Native tribes moved from the Great Sioux Reservation in April 1877.
11. Buffalo bones were grounded down because they were used for fertilizer.
12. William Cody was also known as Buffalo Bill.
13. President Ulysses S. Grant vetoed US Congress effort to save the buffalo.
14. General William T. Sherman and General Philip Sheridan advised the President against saving the buffalo.

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