Leader of the Sioux that destroyed Custer's command at Little Big Horn
Who was Sitting Bull?
100
This law promised free land in the West if you and your family lived on it for five years and improved it.
What was the Homestead Act of 1862?
100
Thousands of Chinese immigrants helped build this railroad as it became the western half of the Transcontinental Railroad in the late 1860's.
What was the Central Pacific?
200
1876 Battle in which Sioux and Cheyenne teamed up to defeat their enemy.
What is Battle of Little Big Horn?
200
African-American Freedmen who left the Black Code Laws of The South to find new opportunties in the West.
What were exodusters?
200
This is the name of the system that divided the United States into four regulated time zones to appease the railroad companies.
What is Standard Time?
300
Nez Pearce chief that led a retreat of over 1,000 miles with his entire tribe in a vain attempt to escape into Canada.
Who was Chief Joseph?
300
With treeless land to build from settlers on the Great PLains used this material to build their first homes.
What was sod(sodbusters)
300
This railroad company built the eastern half of the Transcontinental railroad.
What the Union Pacific?
400
This massacre was a result of Cheyenne Indians rejecting a treaty that forced them to move to a reservation in Colorado in 1864.
What was the Sand Creek Massacre?
400
Thses are three new inventions or improvements that supported homesteaders.
What were: Prairie Windmills(pump groundwater)
Barbed wire(keep out cattle)
Steel plows( turned sod easily for farming)
400
This is the location where the "golden spike" joined the nation from East to West on one continous rail line on a May day in 1869.
What is Promontory Summit, Utah?
500
As a result of the Ghost Dance that promised Native Americans a return of the buffalo and lost lands, U.S. troops overreact to the dance as a preamble to war, and kill over 200 unarmed Sioux there in 1890.
What is Wounded Knee Massacre?
500
He was a former "buffalo" hunter who became a showman with a Wild West Show that toured Eastern cities.
Who was Buffalo Bill (William Colby)?
500
He was the powerful railroad owner who also provided the money to start a university in northern California south of San Francisco.