TRANSCONTINENTAL
RAILROAD
SETTLING THE GREAT PLAINS
BROKEN PROMISES
GENERAL STUDIES
VOCABULARY
100
The eastern railroad
What is the Union Pacific Railroad Company.
100
The area between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains.
What is the Great Plains, or the Prairie?
100
Many settlers moved onto the land that was promised to the _________ _________
What are Native Americans?
100
The law that states People could not be denied the right to vote
What is the Fifteenth Amendment?
100
across a continent
What is transcontinental?
200
The Western Railroad
What is the Central Pacific Railroad Company?
200
large area of level or slightly rolling land.
What is a prairie
200
The Native American raised a ________ ________ as a signal that he did not want to fight.
What is a White Flag?
200
This government bureau gave former slaves, food, clothing, and medicine.
What is the Freedman Bureau?
200
A large area of level or slightly rolling land.
What is prairie?
300
Workers on the Union Pacific Railroad Company
What is the Irish?
300
During the after the Civil War, the United States government ___________ farmers to move west.
What is encouraged?
300
The U.S. officer, that led a group of soldiers against Sitting bull.
What is Colonel George Custer?
300
President Johnson did not like this?
What is renconstruction?
300
A person who received land under the Homestead Act of 1862.
What is homesteader?
400
The workers on the Central Pacific Railroad Company.
What are the Chinese, Mexican Americans, African Americans, and Native Americans.
400
It gave men who were at least 21 years old 160 acres of land. The men had to pay $10, settle on the land for five years.
What is the Homestead Act?
400
Natives Americans are to be educated, the are to become farmers, U.S. Citizens, they cannot land for 25 years.
What is The Dawes Act.
400
The same legal rights as white Amerians.
What is Civil Rights
400
Public land set aside by the government for the use of a particular group of people?
What is reservation?
500
The place were the railroad lines met in 1869.
What is Promontory Point, in Utah
500
In _______, Congress passed the Homestead Act.
What is 1862?
500
The _________ dance led to the battle near Wounded K.
What is Ghost?
500
liar or "troublemaker"
What is a scalawags?
500
The handing down of information, beliefs, and customs from one generation to another
What is tradition?
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