Yee Haw
The Ground
I've Been Workin
Whoville
Indigenous
100
Long Journeys to guide cattle
What is a cattle drive?
100
rights to own or use something for sale
What are property rights?
100
railroad that crossed the continent
What is the transcontinental railroad?
100
Charles Crocker
What is the leader of the Central Pacific Railroad?
100
traditional lands, people, rights
What were the losses of the Native Americans?
200
Farmers in the West did not want cattle to trample their land, so laws were passed and fences were built.
What caused the end of cattle drives?
200
No one owns the land, so it cannot be bought or sold.
What is the Native American belief about land?
200
when Congress granted land to two railroad companies
What is the Pacific Railway Act?
200
sodbuster/ Scottish immigrant who invented the chilled-steel plow
Who is James Oliver?
200
Nez Perce
Who was marching to Canada?
300
Well-known African American ranch hand who was a former slave from Tennessee. He was known as the "Champion Roper of the West."
Who is Nat Love?
300
People who claimed land offered by the Homestead Act
Who were homesteaders?
300
Omaha, Nebraska, Irish/German Immigrants, faced Native American Attacks
What is the Union Pacific Railroad?
300
African-American leader who encouraged exodusters to take the journey from poverty to freedom in Kansas.
Who is Henry Adams?
300
The US made, then broke, a treaty with this tribe.
What is the Lakota Tribe?
400
This group of people spent many months on the trail.
What is a cowboy?
400
Hard, Barren
What is the land of the Great Plains like?
400
$111
What is the price for a first class ticket?
400
US Colonel who was outnumbered 4:1 and defeated by the Lakota warriors at LIttle Big Horn
Who is George Custer?
400
food, shelter, tools, clothing
What are the uses of buffalo?
500
Weather, stampedes, river crossings, and Native American Attacks
What were dangers faced by cowboys?
500
270 million
How many acres were settled by homesteaders?
500
Promontory Point, Utah
Where did Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroad companies meet to join with the golden spike?
500
fought with Crazy Horse at the Battle of Little Big Horn; was later shot in a skirmish when arrested for performing rituals about their suffering
Who is Sitting Bull?
500
land set aside for Native American Groups
What is a reservation?
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