Railroads
Life on the Plains
Cattle Ranchers
Indians Conflicts
Terms
100
The railroad that stretches across the country.
What is the Transcontinental railroad?
100
The home and land of people on the Great Plains
What is the Homestead?
100
The place where cattle sold for more money.
What is east?
100
The term for making a group of people act more like the rest of the group; the Americans tried to do this to the Indians.
What is assimilate?
100
The amount something people want.
What is demand?
200
The town where the railroad tracks begin or end.
What is a railhead?
200
The period of time farmers had to pay for there home stead before they owned it.
What is five years?
200
Most cattle where shipped from this US state.
What is Texas?
200
The tribe that tried to escape to Canada under Chief Joseph.
What is the Nez Perce?
200
The amount of something people will sell.
What is supply?
300
The "live meat" shipped from Texas to the east coast.
What is cattle?
300
A long period of time with very little rainfall.
What is Drought?
300
The length go time for a cattle drive, start to finish.
What is weeks to months?
300
The Indians who led the Lakota in the Battle of Little Bighorn.
Who are Sitting Bull, Gall, and Crazy Horse?
300
An area where certain plants and animals live.
What is a habitat?
400
The two tracks joined to make the Transcontinental Railroad, east and west.
What is the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific?
400
The nickname for farmers on the Great Plains.
What are Sodbusters?
400
Non-white cowboys included these two groups of people.
What is African American and Mexican?
400
The massacre of Indians women and children.
What is Wounded Knee?
400
An animal or plant that no longer exists.
What is Extinct?
500
The immigrants that were paid less to work on the railroads due to prejudice.
What were the Chinese?
500
The name for former slaves who moved west to start life on the plains.
What is Exodusters?
500
The religious act performed by Indians that America tried to make illegal.
What is ghost dance?
500
Unfair treatment of a person.
What is Prejudice?
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