Choo Choo Trains
Native Americans
Land
Inventions
Misc
100
The year the first transcontinental railroad was completed
What is 1869
100
The two things that decreased the Native American population
What is war and disease
100
Property given to the railroads by the government
What are land grants
100
An official document giving a person all rights to their invention
What is a patent
100
The discovery of oil here led to many people searching for oil reserves
What is Pennsylvania
200
A price drop in this product helped the railroads expand
What is steel
200
A small piece of government land set aside for Native Americans
What is a reservation
200
This gave settlers up to 160 acres of land if they lived on it for 5 years
What is the Homestead Act
200
A procedure for removing impurities from steel
What is the Bessemer Process
200
A machine that removes wheat kernels from the stalk
What is a thresher
300
The average length of a rail line before the Civil War
What is 100 miles
300
Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse defeated Col. George Custer here
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn
300
The reason many people went to the Great Plains.
What is mining (silver,minerals,etc)
300
This industry gave many women an opportunity for employment
What is the telephone industry
300
Early settlers in the Great Plains built houses out of this
What is sod
400
These were installed beside railroad lines
What are telegraph lines.
400
To blend into another culture and accept it as your own
What is assimilation
400
The last big event for people to claim government land
What is the Oklahoma Land Rush
400
This invention by John Deere allowed farmers to plant seeds further under the earth's surface
What is the steel plow
400
He was the chief of the Apache tribe
Who was Geronimo
500
An economic benefit of expanded railroads
What is jobs or new markets for producers
500
Native Americans were not this until 1924
What is U.S. citizens
500
The Great Plains region is between the Rocky Mountains and this
What is the Mississippi River
500
One of the foundations of the 2nd Industrial Revolution
What is mineral wealth, lots of cheap labor, railroads,growing market,technology,lots of land
500
This invention used Morse Code
What is the telegraph
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