Railroads and Rush
What is the name of the railroad combination of the central pacific and union pacific railroad?
Transcontinental Railroad
What is a cattle drive?
Moving large amounts of cattle from TX to KS
What is yellow journalism?
Exaggeration of information
What is the purchase of Alaska called?
Seward's Folly
Name the railroad that went from Omaha, Nebraska to Promontory Point, Utah?
Union Pacific
Who moved and took care of the herds of cattle?
Cowboys
Who participated in the Spanish American War?
Spain and US
What is halfway between the USA and Japan?
Hawaii
Name the first major gold rush after 1849?
Pikes Peak Gold Rush
What ended open ranges?
Barbed wire
What is the USS?
US battleship that exploded
What is imperialism?
Policy of extending a country's power and influence through force
Railroad that had Chinese immigrant workers?
Central Pacific
Who invented Barbed Wire?
Joseph Gildden
Who is the most famous rough riders?
Teddy Rosevelt
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
China did not want foreign influences so they killed diplomats and missionaries
Rush that found large amounts of silver instead of gold?
Comstock Lode
Battle of Manila Bay
What policy opened china for trade?
Open Door Policy