The railroad replace these types of transportation.
18. Stage coach and wagon trains.
100
Wildcat Banks
9. What were banks that printed money in early Nebraska?
100
a way to send a message across electric wires
11. What was the telegraph?
100
1. Very Large Farms
What is plantations?
200
Stations or stops along the trail.
7. What is Road Ranches?
200
5. The difference between a state and a territory.
What is
a. states can make their own laws and help make laws for the entire county.
b. Territories are ruled by leaders appointed by the federal government.
200
They brought travelers, business people, new settlers and much needed supplies to growing towns by water.
12. Why were steamboats important to the new territory?
200
4. Underground Railroad
What is a secret system to help slaves escape?
300
They helped keep other Native Americans from destroying the railroad.
13. Who were the Pawnee Scouts?
300
15. Kansas-Nebraska Act
What is Created the Kansas Nebraska territories and let people in each territory decide whether to allow slaves or not?
300
8. Freighting companies.
What are companies that carried supplies to small towns along the trails?
300
3. States that allowed to have slaves were called this.
What is slave states?
400
Why was the Railroad so important to the Midwest?
Much of the Midwest did not have connecting water way to get good and people from place to place. The Railroad was much safer and faster than wagons. It could also carry a lot more.
400
6. The first governor of Nebraska.
Francis Burt
400
10. Pony Express
What is a system to carry mailon horseback from station to station?
400
16. John Brown
Who is a man from Kansas who help free runaway slaves on the underground railroad.
500
How did the railroad change the Native American way of life?
Answers will vary.
500
US would set up a government and buy land from Indians.
Settlers would be allowed to move to NE.
Railroad companies could use the land to build railroad track from East to West.
2. What is three reasons to Make Nebraska a Territory?
500
The act of sharing thoughts, messages, or information.
19. What is communication?
500
14. Civil War
What is a war where people from the same country fight against each other?
The US had a civil over slavery and states vs. federal rights.