American History 1
The age in America between 1870-1900 looked bright and shiny on the outside but had many problems on the inside.
What is the Gilded Age?
Thousands of these workers came to work on the Railroad in the 1860's.
Chinese
The bad side-effect of hydraulic mining.
William Cody became famous for this in the 1880's.
What is Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show?
These people were outnumbered in the wild west.
women?
What is the Chisholm Trail?
The cattle trail mapped out to drive cattle east
John Wesley powell mapped the Colorado River and reported to Congress about this amazing place.
Grand Canyon?
The seven western states where gold, silver, or copper rushes occurred?
What are California, Nevada, Colorado, Idaho, Montana ,and Arizona?
The country were we at war with in the Revolutionary War.
What is England?
The son of a slave who became a cowboy after the Civil War.
Nat Love?
A city closed to us where Cowboys herded cattle into stockyards.
Fort Worth
This man is known as the Father of the National Parks.
John Muir?
Some western lands such as Yellowstone became these.
What are National Parks?
This horse race first took place in 1875.
What is the Kentucky Derby?
Trail bosses paid Native Americans this much to drive cattle over their land.
What is ten cents a head?
This mineral brought miners to the west.
What is gold?
This writer penned many dime novels about good guys and bad guys in the old west.
Edward Judson?
George Washington.
This was invented in 1876 by Alexander Graham Bell.
What is the telephone?
A painting by Charles Russell
What is the Wagon Boss?
These miners panned for gold by washing river silt through rockers.
Placer Miners?
This President was a Dakota Cattle Rancher for a few years in the 1880's.
Theodore Roosevelt?
Remington, Moran, and Russell all have this in common.
Western Artists?
This President was elected and shot in 1881.
James Garfield?
This man served two terms as President.
Who is Grover Cleveland?