Transcontinental Railroad
The Great Plains
Cattle Drives
War on the Plains
100
These two railroads connected the East and West Coast.
What are the Union Pacific and Central Pacific?
100
The settlers build their homes with this.
What is sod?
100
These trips were long and tiring and sometimes took months to finish.
What are cattle drives?
100
Buffalo became extinct because the settlers wanted this.
What is its hide and meat?
200
This group of people was treated with prejudice while building the railroads.
What are the Chinese?
200
A hardship of the Great Plains where the land was very dry with very little rain.
What is a drought?
200
Supply means to ________ things at a certain price.
What is sell?
200
Changing a group’s culture and traditions so that it blends with a larger group.
What is assimilation?
300
People used these to travel west.
What are wagons, horses, ships, and railroads?
300
This offered 160 acres of land to adults who were citizens or who wanted to be US citizens.
What is the Homestead Act?
300
The invention of barbed wire did this.
What is the end of the cattle drives?
300
George Armstrong Custer led soldiers to attack this village of Lakota and Cheyenne Indians.
What is Little Bighorn?
400
Pioneers headed west for this reason.
What are looking for gold and new places to live?
400
They were African American settlers that called themselves after Exodus, a book of the Bible.
Who were the Exodusters?
400
These were Mexican cowhands.
Who are the Vaqueros?
400
This forced the Indians to become farmers.
What is the Dawes Act?
500
Information was sent by this before the invention of the telegraph.
What is a stagecoach, a horse, or a steamboat.
500
These were tools the settlers use on the Great Plains.
What are plows, planters, reapers, and threshers?
500
Cattle were loaded onto trains here.
What are railheads?
500
Event where Indian men, women, and children were massacred by soldiers.
What is Wounded Knee?
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