Names and their meanings
This is what Nez Perce means.
What is pierced nose?
These valuable minerals where what
What is gold and silver
These are new towns that pop up after successful mines.
What are Boomtowns?
this is the number of years the Comstock produced more than $500 million worth of valuables
what is 20 years?
This is the animal the people working on the transcontinental railroad killed for food.
What are bison?
These two people traveled to the Nez Perce seeking to help the American Indians who lived there.
Who were Jane Gay and Alice Fletcher?
Most of these minerals were discovered here.
What is Nevada?
The people recruited to lay rail for the transcontinental railroad were this ethnicity.
What is Chinese?
In what two different years did the federal government pass the Pacific Railway Act.
What are 1862 and 1864
What is a system of messengers or horseback carrying messages west
Who's railroad collapsed in 1873
Jay Cooke's
What are most of the railroads made of.
what is iron.
The transcontinental railroad linked these coasts together.
What are the Atlantic and pacific coasts?
At what year was The four continental time zones established?
What is 1883.
This animal was another are of rapid growth
What is the cattle industry?
In 1859, this miner discovered a huge deposit of gold and silver in Nevada.
Who is Henry Comstock?
What is this mineral that the miners had to dig the gold and silver out of?
What is quartz rock
This is where the explorers who named the Nez Perce came from.
What is France?
Railroad speculation and the collapse of railroad owner Jay Cooke's banking firm helped start the panic of what year?
What is 1873
These are 6 things that women did in this event.
What is washing, cooking, made clothing, chopped wood, raised families, and establishing schools?
This law official was like others that became famous for keeping the peace in cattle towns
Who is Wyatt Earp
This is why settlements grew on the coast of California.
What is looking for gold?
These 6 places had citizens come to mine.
What are the Eastern United states, Europe, Central and South America, Asia, and Mexico?
On what month day and year was the golden spike placed to connect the Railroad tie joining the two tracks.
what is May 10, 1869
This is one of the earliest and most popular routes for cattle drives, which ran from San Antonio, Texas, to the cattle town of Abilene, Kansas.
What is the Chisholm Trail?