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Lesson 1: Rails Across the Nation
Lesson 2: Farmers and Cowboys
War in the West
100
Mail service in which a series of riders carried mail on horseback between Missouri and California
What is the Pony Express?
100
a railroad across the continent
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
100
This is how long the Pony Express took to carry mail from Missouri to California.
What is 10 days?
100
After paying a $10 registration fee, how long did homesteaders have to live on their land before they could legally own it?
What is 10 years?
100
How did the Native Americans use the buffalo?
What is for food, shelter, and clothing?
200
A machine that sent messages across wires using electricity.
What is the telegraph?
200
a twisted wire with sharp points
What is barbed wire?
200
This invention put the Pony Express out of business.
What is the telegraph?
200
What factors made it hard for homesteaders to grow crops?
What is weather (blizzards, tornadoes, hailstorms, flooding, droughts, prairie fires, ice storms) and grasshoppers.
200
The US wanted Native Americans to move to pieces of land set aside just for them. These were known as what?
What are reservations?
300
When cowboys moved huge herds of cattle to railroad lines
What is a cattle drive?
300
African Americans who left the eastern United States for Kansas and Nebraska
What are exodusters?
300
Name ONE of the TWO railroad companies that helped buld the Transcontinental Railroad.
What is the Union Pacific or Central Pacific?
300
When hundreds of thousands of Europeans wanted to move to the US, they were said to have this.
What is America Fever?
300
Who led the Lakota tribe to defeat General Custer?
Who was Crazy Horse?
400
an act that gave free land to pioneers willing to start farms in the Great Plains
What is the Homestead Act?
400
Farmers in the Great Plains who dug through thick roots to plant crops.
What are sodbusters?
400
Why did the Native Americans NOT want the railroads to be built?
What is they did not want the workers building tracks on their hunting grounds (harming the buffalo)?
400
The first African-American town settled by exodusters.
What is Nicodemus, Kansas?
400
What Native American tribe was led by Chief Joseph, was from Oregon, and refused to move from their home?
Who were the Nez Perce Indians?
500
a battle for land between United States soldiers and the Lakota people
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
500
Disputes over these hills led to the Battle of Little Bighorn.
What are the Black Hills?
500
Name one of the problems railroad workers had when they were trying to build the railroad.
What are building tracks over the Sierra Nevadas, blasting tunnels, and confrontations with the Native Americans?
500
The cattle drive route carved out from Colorado to Texas was named after the two men who made it. It was called what?
What is the Goodnght-Loving Trail?
500
How many Native Americans currently live in the U.S.?
What is 2.5 million?
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