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American pioneer that was famous for exploring and settling in Kentucky.
Who is Daniel Boone?
In 1803, the United States doubled its size by buying this territory from France.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This term describes the large ranching industry on the Great Plains after the Civil War.
What is the Cattle Kingdom?
This Lakota leader fought U.S. soldiers to defend Native lands in the late 1800s.
Who is Crazy Horse?
This political party, formed in the 1890s, represented farmers and workers seeking economic reforms.
What is the Populist Party?
The co-leader of the famous expedition exploring the Louisiana Territory.
Who is Merriwether Lewis?
These men explored the Rocky Mountains during the early 1800s.
Who are mountain men?
This fast mail service carried letters across the West on horseback in 1860s.
What is the Pony Express?
This nickname was given to African American soldiers who served on the Western frontier after the Civil War.
Who are the Buffalo Soldiers?
This farming method conserved water and allowed crops to grow on the Great Plains with little rainfall.
What is dry farming?
Explored the Louisiana Territory with his fellow Army officer.
Who is William Clark?
Settlers traveled this route west to reach Oregon in the 1800s.
What is the Oregon Trail?
This Nevada site, discovered in 1859, was the first major silver strike in the United States.
What is the Comstock Lode?
This U.S Army officer was defeated and killed at the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876.
Who is George Armstrong Custer?
This politician, known as the Great Commoner, supported free silver and ran for president three times in the late 1800s.
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
A Shoshone woman who helped guide Lewis and Clark on their expedition.
Who is Sacagawea?
This religious group traveled west to Utah seeking religious freedom in the 1800s.
Who are the Mormons?
Completed in 1869, this railroad connected the eastern U.S. to the West Coast.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This spiritual movement among Native Americans promised the return of their lands and way of life.
What is the Ghost Dance?
Passed in 1862, this law gave settlers 160 acres of land and they farmed it for 5 years.
What is the Homestead Act?
This pathfinder mapped much of the American West.
Who is John C. Fremont?
This businessman built a fur trading empire and founded Astoria, Oregon, in the early 1800s.
Who is John Jacob Astor?
Cowboys drove cattle along this trail from Texas to Kansas railheads after the Civil War.
What is the Chisholm Trail?
In 1890, U.S. Soldiers killed hundreds of Lakota Sioux at this South Dakota site.
What is the Massacre at Wounded Knee?
This 1862 law gave land to states to build colleges for farming and engineering.
What is the Morrill Act?