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The OGs of America
100
Towns that seemingly sprang up overnight.
What is Boomtown?
100
President who passed the Pacific Railroad Act to start building the Transcontinal Railroad.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
What are Cattle Drives?
100
True or False
Farming a homestead was easy and most farmers were successful in keeping their land.
False
100
Military leader who attacked an Indian village at Little Bighorn River and was killed.
Who is George Armstrong Custer?
200
State gold was first discovered in 1848.
What is California?
200
The two railroad companies that built the Transcontinental railroad.
What are the Union Pacific and Central Pacific?
200
All cattle drives ended at this.
What are Railroads?
200
Kind of person that was not allowed to claim land through the Homestead Act.
What is a Confederate Soldier?
200
The reaction of the US to the Battle of Little Bighorn.
What is increased effort to move natives to reservations?
300
What is a Washoe Zephyr?
300
River that the Transcontinental Railroad follows through Nebraska.
What is the Platte River?
300
The skills of being a cowboy were originally developed by this group.
Who are the Vaqueros?
300
Amount of land people could claim from the Homestead Act.
What is 160 Acres?
300
Ritual Native Americans believed would push out the white people and bring back the Bison.
What is the Ghost Dance?
400
The conflict between Native Americans led by Red Cloud and settlers going to Montana for gold.
What is the Bozeman Trail War?
400
People hired to build the transcontinental railroad.
Who is Central Pacific-Chinese Immigrants
and Union Pacific-Civil War Veterans?
400
Cattle breed the cowboys pushed to the railroads on the Cattle trails.
What are Longhorns?
400
Requirements to keep land farmers claimed through Homestead Act. (3 things)
1. Live on the land for 5 years
2. Build a house on the land
3. Work the land
400
Law created to give Natives 160 acres of land and breakup the tribal system.
What is the Dawes Act?
500
Red Cloud and his warriors defeated the US government and ended the Bozeman Trail War with this.
What is the Laramie Treaty.
500
Fixed the problem of scheduling trains with different times.
What is the creation of Time Zones?
500
Ended free range in the West and cattle drives.
What is Barbed Wire?
500
Requirements for a person to be in order to claim land through Homestead Act. (3 things)
1. Must be 21 years old or head of the house
2. US citizen
3. Couldn’t have fought against the US government
500
Event considered the end of resistance to the Reservation system?
What is the Battle of Wounded Knee?