Mining
These 2 metals were found in the American West in the late 1800s, prompting a mining craze.
What are gold and silver?
This is the name of the sacred hills where gold was found.
What are the Black Hills?
The meaning of the word "Transcontinental."
What does the word "reconstruction" mean?
The name of the organization that terrorized African Americans after the Civil War.
What is the KKK?
This metal was found in the Black Hills.
What is gold?
The name of the Sioux leader during the Battle of Little Bighorn.
Who is Sitting Bull?
The name of the railroads companies who built the transcontinental railroad.
What is the Union Pacific and Central Pacific?
The amendment that ended slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This person wrote the "Gospel of Wealth."
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This metal was abudant in the Comstock Lode.
What is silver?
The name of the U.S. military commander at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
Who is George Custer?
The year the Transcontinental Railroad was completed.
What is 1869?
The amendment that gave voting rights to all men in America, even former slaves.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This was the name of the period after Reconstruction that was characterized by the growth of big business and westward expansion.
What is the Gilded Age?
This ore is used in making steel.
What is iron?
The year of the Great Sioux War.
What is 1876?
The name of the Summit where the two railroads met.
What is Promontory Summit?
The name of the codes that restricted the rights of African Americans in the South.
What are the Black Codes?
This is the feeling that lead American's to believe that expanding Westward across North America was their god-given right.
What is Manifest Destiny?
The name we give a town that springs up suddenly because of mining.
What is a Boomtown?
The other name given to the Battle of Little Bighorn.
What is Custer's Last Stand?
The name of the town that was the eastern terminus of the railroad.
What is Omaha?
The name of the government agency that helped freed slaves get an education and a job.
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
This was the company that monopolized the oil industry in the late 1800s.
What is Standard Oil?