This group of people was paid less than whites while constructing the railroad.
What are the Chinese?
100
The trip cows must walk before they can get to the railroad to be shipped out.
What is a cattle drive?
100
This is a conflict where one side kills people who are unable to defend themselves.
What is a massacre?
100
These were pieces of land that Indians were forced to live on. They could only leave with special permission.
What are reservations?
100
This act set the prices the government would pay companies to build the transcontinental railroad. It also gave railroad companies land around the tracks.
What are the Pacific Railroad Acts?
200
The piece of hardware that connected the western and eastern portions of the railroad together in Promontory, Utah.
What is the golden spike.
200
This place is a place where cows are purchased then loaded on trains and shipped east.
What is a cow town?
200
This Native American religion involved imagining the earth was healed and everyone got along in peace.
What is the Ghost Dance?
200
These were mandatory for Native American children to attend.
What are Indian boarding schools?
200
These people need to be willing to work in the sun all day, ride a horse for hours on end, sleep outside, breathe in dust, and be gone for months at a time.
What are cowboys?
300
This route ended up being chosen when Southern lawmakers withdrew from Congress.
What is the central route.
300
This person set up shop in Abilene, Kansas. He bought cows for a fair price and shipped them east on trains to make a profit. He is real.
Who is Joseph McCoy?
300
This battle was a major victory for Native Americans over the U.S. army.
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
300
This act forced Native Americans to own their own small plots of land on reservations. This discouraged a sense of community for Native Americans.
What is the Dawe's Act?
300
These acts encouraged people to settle the West by giving them free land if they would build a home and farm their land for 5 years.
What are the Homestead Acts?
400
This group of workers was recruited mostly in Utah to help build the railroad.
What are Mormons.
400
This word is Spanish for "cattle rancher."
What is a vaquero.
400
This was a conflict in which over 300 defenseless Native Americans were killed by U.S. Army soldiers.
What is Wounded Knee?
400
This phrase means the only way to help an Indian is to take away his Indian culture.
What is "Kill the Indian, save the man?"
400
This is the reason Joseph McCoy and others shipped their beef to the East.
What are beef was in high demand and low supply in the East or people in the East developed a taste for beef.
500
The western end of the transcontinental railroad ended in this California City.
What is Sacramento?
500
This person attempts to steal a cow.
What is a cattle rustler?
500
This person attempted to surround Native Americans at Little Bighorn, failed, and was killed.
Who is General Custer?
500
This is the reason that Indian boarding schools were formed.
What is to force Indians to adopt white culture?
500
This is the city where both ends of the transcontinental railroad met.