People
Places
Railroads
Miscellaneous
Native Americans
100
US Army General in command during the Indian Wars
Philip Sheridan
100
Nevada mine important for the gold rush.
Comstock Lode
100
Owner and builder of the the Central Pacific Railroad
Leland Stanford
100
Two reasons for the defeat of the tribes in the West
Railroads expanding. Slaughter of the buffalo
100
What is the name of the battle fought by the Sioux and Cheyenne fought against the US 7th Calvary?
The Battle of the Little Big Horn
200
7th Calvary leader defeated at the Battle of the Little Big Horn
General (Colonel) Armstrong Custer
200
South Dakota mine important for the gold rush
Black Hills (Deadwood)
200
A railroad that crossed the North American continent from Sacramento, CA to Omaha, NE
1st Transcontinental Railroad
200
What is Open Range?
A policy of allowing great cattle ranches to graze their cattle on land without fences.
200
Victorious chiefs (2) at the Battle of the Little Big Horn
Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse
300
Immigrants who built the Central Pacific Railroad
Chinese
300
Colorado mine important for the gold rush
Pike's Peak
300
Part of the Transcontinental Railroad that began at Sacramento, CA and ended at Promontory Point, UT.
Central Pacific Railroad
300
Three inventions that helped homesteaders
steel plow, windmill, barbed wire
300
Name the American leader of the 7th Calvary who lost all his men at the Battle of Little Big Horn. *** BONUS name the two tribes who defeated them?
George Armstrong Custer. ***BONUS: Sioux and Cheyenne were victorious.
400
Immigrants who built the Union Pacific Railroad
Irish
400
Where did the Central Pacific RR begin? *****Bonus: Where did the Union Pacific RR begin?
Sacramento, CA ****Bonus: Omaha, NE
400
The part of the Transcontinental Railroad that started in Omaha, NE and ended at Promontory Point, UT.
Union Pacific Railroad
400
Place where the 1st Transcontinental Railroad met.
Promontory Point, UT
400
Area sacred to Sioux and Cheyenne tribes where gold was found. The miner broke a treaty and caused a war.
Black Hills
500
A nickname given to homesteaders who used steel plows to cultivate the prairies. They caused the end to the Open Range.
Sodbusters
500
1862 law giving away free land that encouraged people from all over the world to settle in the American West .
Homestead Act
500
A Southern Transcontinental Railroad that went from Texas to Los Angeles, CA
Southern Pacific Railroad
500
"Run" for the last of the free land on the frontier.
Oklahoma Land Rush
500
Apache chief captured in 1866 and sent to a fort in Oklahoma
Geronimo
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