Great Plains
Homestead Act
American Indians
Immigrants
Railroads
100
Americans did not want to live on the Great Plains, so United States senators and representatives wrote the __________.
What is Homestead Act
100
_______________ made it easier for people to travel west.
What are railroads?
100
Life was hard on the Great Plains. There were terrible ____________ in the winter.
What are snowstorms?
100
American Indians used every part of the buffalo they killed. They made tools and __________from the horns and bones.
What are weapons?
100
A ___________is a very large heavy nail.
What is spike?
200
The Homestead Act gave settlers land, so many Americans moved west to the _________________.
What is Great Plains?
200
_______________ is used to make flour for bread.
What is wheat?
200
After the California gold rush, people found gold and ______________ in other parts of the West.
What is silver?
200
American Indians used every part of the buffalo they killed. They made clothes and _________ from the animal skins.
What are tents?
200
After the Civil War, thousands of people helped lay railroad _______ across the West.
What are tracks?
300
Buffalo moved from place to place, so America__________ who hunted buffalo moved from place to place.
What are Indians?
300
The Homestead Act gave settler_______ land on the Great Plains.
What is free?
300
After the California gold rush, people found ________ and silver in other parts of the West.
What is silver?
300
American Indians used every part of the buffalo they killed. They made _______ and tents from the animal skins.
What are tents?
300
Immigrants from Ireland and _________ came to work on the railroads.
What is China?
400
The United States government wanted American Indians to live in one place, so it forced American Indians to live on __________________.
What are reservations?
400
Farmers on the Great Plains grew wheat and _______.
What is corn?
400
As Americans moved west, they settled on land where _____________ lived.
What are American Indians?
400
As Americans moved west, they________ many, many buffalo.
What is killed?
400
Immigrants from _______ and China came to work on the railroads.
What is Ireland?
500
The _______________ were hunted by American Indians.
What are buffalo?
500
Life was hard on the Great Plains. Sometimes there was not enough _________ for the wheat to grow.
What is rain?
500
In the west, the American Indians had always been buffalo _________.
What are hunters?
500
_____________ are people who move to another country.
What are immigrants?
500
On the Great Plains, settlers used ______ to build houses.
What is sod?
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