railroads
Connects the US and is apart of the Pacific Railway Act
What is the transcontinental railroad?
The state that Gold was first discovered in
What is California?
Workers who took care of the ranchers cattle
What is cowboys?
New method of farming that stayed away from water dependent crops
What is dry farming?
Most productive wheat growing regions in the world
What is Great Plains?
The year that they finished the the transcontinental railroad
What is 1869?
Mining camps that grew into settlements
What is Boomtowns?
Hunters followed railroads killing huge numbers of these animals
What is Bison?
Hard work of breaking up sod
What is sodbusters?
First major deal between the U.S and the Plains indians
What is Treaty of Fort Laramie?
Connected the 2 tracks of the continental railroad in Utah
What is Golden Spike?
A huge deposit of gold and silver in Nevada
What is Comstock Lode?
Most common and earliest path for cattle drives
What is Chisholm Trail?
introduced a type of winter wheat that thrived on the plains
What is The Mennonites?
Areas of federal land set aside for the native Americans
What is reservations?
Companies that fought over finishing the transcontinental railroad
What is the Union Pacific and Central Pacific?
Investors in heavy equipment needed to extract ore form western mountains
Who are businesspeople?
Cowboys worked for ten hours a day 7 days a week for several months
What is the long drive?
Social an educational organization for farmers
What is National Grange?
Southern Plains Indians agreed to live on reservations
What is the Treaty of Medicine Lodge?
The state that Union Pacific started the transcontinental railroad in
What is Nebraska?
Testing the contents of valuable ore
What is assaying?
This place is known as Boot Hill and is in a "wicked little town"
What is Dodge City Cemetery?
Decrease in the money supply and low prices
What is deflation?
Hated the idea of being penned up on a reservation
Who were the Nomadic Plains people?