Wild West
Owners of livestock, most commonly cattle and sheep.
What is a rancher?
A town undergoing rapid growth due to sudden prosperity.
What is a boomtown?
This Native American chief was said to have personally killed Custer in the battle of Little Bighorn.
Who was Crazy Horse?
What is a deed?
This was the name of the western half of the first Transcontinental Railroad that was built eastward from Sacramento and over the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
What was the Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR)?
An animal herder who tends cattle on ranches in North America, traditionally on horseback.
What is a cowboy?
Someone who invests money in a product, service, or company in hopes for a gain in financial return.
The tribe that gave Colonel Custer of Kansas his final stand in the battle of Little Bighorn.
Who were the Lakota Sioux?
The admittance of a foreigner to the citizenship of a country.
What is naturalization?
This was the name of the eastern half of the first Transcontinental Railroad that branched from the Missouri River in OMA, NE into the Great Plains.
What was the Union Pacific Railroad (UPRR)?
Exceptionally large commercial farming enterprises that grew thousands of acres of wheat.
What were bonanza farms?
A machine that helps harvest ripe crops efficiently, allowing for things like higher food production.
What is a reaper?
The practice of this religious recreational activity directly resulted in the battle of wounded knee.
What is a ghost dance?
A sum of money granted by the government to assist in an industry or business in the economical interest of keeping prices low and affordable.
what is a subsidy?
this practice involved the use of highly pressurized water to blast away large amounts of Earth.
The process of herding a large group of cattle over long distances from one location to another.
What is a cattle drive?
The state in which the 1848 gold rush occured.
Where is California?
The excessive or prejudice support for one own's cause or group
What is chauvinism?
The U.S. law that allowed any citizen or future citizen to claim up to 160 acres of land for a small price in the agreement that they would live on it and cultivate it for a minimum of 5 years.
What was the Homestead Act 1862.
Two groups of immigrants that made up most of each of the two connecting Railroad systems that were often discriminated against.
Who where Irish and Chinese immigrants?
The process of separating heavily eroded metals from sand or gravel.
What is placer mining?
An act that provided U.S. states and territories with public land to establish colleges for the benefit of developing the agricultural and mechanical arts industries.
What was the Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862?
The railroad that connected the nation.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?