Pioneers on the Plains
Linking East and West
Cowboys and Miners
War in the West
Inventors Change the World
100
What is a vast region of dry grasslands?
What are the Great Plains
100
what is a device that sent messages over wires using electricity
What is a telegraph
100
A solution to get farmer's cattle across the country?
What is the cattle drive
100
An area of land set aside for Native Americans
What is a reservation
100
This man invented the " talking telegraph"
Who is Alexander Graham Bell
200
What are settlers who arrived on the Great Plains to start a new life?
Who are Pioneers
200
What is a mail; company that used horses to deliver mail from Missouri to California
What is Pony Express
200
What was the time period when thousands of people rushed to California in search of gold?
What is Gold Rush
200
What is one of the largest reservation
What is Black Hills
200
This man invented the telephone
Who is Thomas Edison
300
What are settlers who claimed the great plains through the Homestead Act?
What are homesteaders
300
What is the name of the railroad that went across the country?
What is Transcontinental Railroad
300
Who is a person that starts their own business?
What is entrepreneur
300
This battle was the biggest victory for the Native Americans ever won over United States forces
What is Battle of Little Bighorn
300
People who give money to a business or a project
What is an Investor
400
What are Great Plain farmers called?
What are sodbusters
400
What is the name of the railroad company that started on the east coat?
What is Union Pacific
400
An entrepreneur who started a jean company that made sturdy jeans?
What is Levi Strauss
400
A resisted capture by leading a small group into the mountains of northern Mexico
What is Geronimo
400
This man helped invent the light bulb
Who is Lewis Latimer
500
This law offered free land to American citizens and immigrants who were willing to start new farms on the Great Plains
What is the Homestead Act
500
What is the railroad company that started in California.
What is Central Pacific
500
The biggest boomtown during the Gold Rush
What is Virginia City
500
The Nez Perce leader that was about to get capture
Who is Chief Joseph
500
A trolley with a track
What is a streetcar
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