Money & Manifestation: the U.S. Goes West
Trails & Trailblazers: Famous Figures of the Western Frontier
The Last Stand: Problems for the People of the Great Plains
From Boom to Bust: Mining on the Western Frontier
Founding Farmers: Farming & the Populist Party
100

Roughly doubles the size of the U.S.

What is the Louisiana Purchase?

100

Created the Wilderness Road.

Who is Daniel Boone?

100

Native American religious movement that predicted paradise.

What is the Ghost Dance?

100

Nickname for Texas.

What is "Cattle Country"?

100

Inventor of the steel plow.

Who is John Deere?

200

Stretched from Missouri → New Mexico.

What is the Santa Fe Trail?

200

A Native American woman from the Shoshone nation.

Who is Sacagawea?

200

African American troops in the Native American army.

Who are "buffalo soldiers"?

200

Communities that grew suddenly when a mine opened.

What are boomtowns?

200

A social and educational organization for farmers.

What is the National Grange?

300

Mountain men's yearly meeting.

What is a rendezvous?

300

Founded the Church of Latter-Day Saints.

Who is Joseph Smith?

300

U.S. general who fought against Chief Sitting Bull and Chief Crazy Horse.

Who is George Armstrong Custer?

300

Number of time zones established by the transcontinental railroad.

What are 4 time zones?

300

A decrease in money supply and overall lower prices.

What is deflation?

400

Year that California became a state.

What is 1850?

400

Chief who retaliated against U.S. settlers.

Who is Crazy Horse?

400

Full name of the act that tried to erase Native American traditions.

What is the Dawes General Allotment Act?

400

Huge deposit of gold & silver found in Nebraska.

What is the Comstock Lode?

400

African American migrants from the South.

Who are Exodusters?

500

Length of the Oregon Trail.

What is 2,000 miles?

500

Strongest supporter of silver coins over paper money.

Who is William Jennings Bryan?

500

Term that means "becoming like white Americans" when referring to the experiences of Native Americans during Western Expansion.

What is "assimilation"?

500

Mexican ranch hands whose techniques the cowboys adopted.

Who are vaqueros?

500

3 systems that the Populist Party called for the government to own.

What are the railroad, telephone and telegraph systems?

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