Railroads Transform the Nation
Miners, Ranchers and Cowhands
Native Americans Fight to Survive
Farm Economics and Populism
Presidents and Politics
100
Immigrants from which country did the most dangerous jobs on the Central Pacific Railroad?
What is China
100
What invention allowed farmers on the plains to fence their lands?
Barbed wire
100
What animal was hunted almost to extinction on the plains?
buffalo
100
What happens to the price of crops when there is overproduction?
The price of the crops go down
100
Name one president who served between 1881 and 1901.
James Garfield, Chester A. Arthur, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison and William McKinley
200
Name 2 ways in which the government helped the railroad companies.
The government gave the companies money and land
200
Why did some African Americans from the south move west and became cowboys?
black codes
200
In what battle was George Custer (and all of his men) killed?
Battle of Little Bighorn
200
There was a shortage of ___ and ____ which made life on the Plains difficult.
wood, water
200
Who was elected president in 1880 but only served for a few months before being assassinated?
James Garfield
300
How many time zones are there? Name them.
4, Pacific, Mountain, Central, Eastern
300
Where did they long drive begin?
Southern Texas
300
Why did miners and prospectors want to reclaim the Black Hills from the Native Americans?
The miners wanted the gold
300
Where does the name exodusters come from?
Hebrews in the biblical story of Exodus
300
What is another name for the Populist Party?
People's party
400
Where did the Central and Union Pacific Railroads begin?
Central Pacific: Sacramento, CA Union Pacific: Omaha, Nebraska
400
About one third of all cowhands in the west were ____ or _____
Mexican or African American
400
Where did the first horses come from?
Spanish explorers brought them in the 1500s
400
The Homestead Act offered ___ acres of land to anyone who agreed to improve for __ years.
160, 5
400
Who took over as president after the assassination of James Garfield?
Chester A. Arthur
500
Where did the Central and Union Railroads meet?
Promomtory Point, Utah
500
What is the difference between vaqueros, Mexicanos, and Anglos?
The vaqueros are a Spanish term for cowhand. Mexicanos is a spanish word for a person of Mexican heritage and an Anglo is an English-speaking settler
500
In which states were the Battle of Little Bighorn and the Wounded Knee Massacre?
Montana and South Dakota
500
What is the name of the organization formed to meet the social needs of farm families?
Grange
500
Who won the election of 1892?
Grover Cleveland
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