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Vocabulary
Anything Goes!
100
This was a way to relay messages across the country. It was similar to a relay.
What is the Pony Express?
100
The name for men who raised and tended cattle in Texas.
Who are cowboys?
100
Settlers built homes with this when wood was scarce.
What is sod?
100
Land claimed by a settler.
What is a homestead?
100
He was the Colonel sent to enforce the Sioux peoples' move to a reservation.
Who is Colonel George Custer?
200
He invented a form of communication sent via the telegraph.
Who is Samuel Morse?
200
The method of transportation used for cattle to travel to the east.
What is railroad?
200
The process of leaving one field unplanted in order to conserve moisture in dry climates.
What is dry farming?
200
A settler who must break through hard ground to prepare the land.
What is a sodbuster?
200
A battle took place here between Custer and the Sioux people.
What is Little Bighorn?
300
This is how messages were sent through telegraph wires.
What is electrical energy?
300
The animal upon which Native Americans depended.
What is buffalo?
300
An organization formed in order to help farmers make a profit while farming on the plains.
What is the Grange?
300
A route from Texas across the plains to where cows were shipped.
What is a cattle trail?
300
This is Morse Code for the letter "A".
What is ._ ?
400
These were the two companies funded to build the Transcontinental Railroad.
What are the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific.
400
These were a fad in the early 1870's as a way to hurt the Native Americans.
What are buffalo skin coats?
400
A new political party formed by farmers.
What is the Populist Party?
400
Land set aside for Native Americans.
What is a reservation?
400
The Pony Express ran between these two states.
What are Missouri and California?
500
The place where the two railroad companies met when the Transcontinental Railroad was finished.
What is Promontory Point, Utah?
500
A ritual performed in order to bring back warriors killed by settlers.
What is the Ghost Dance?
500
A structure used to draw water from the ground.
What is a windmill?
500
The meaning of transcontinental.
What is across the country?
500
He founded the Grange.
Who is Oliver H. Kelley?
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