Transcontinental RR
Pioneers
Plains Indians
Mining
Cattle Boom
100
Railroad that began in California and worked east.
Who are the Central Pacific
100
Government gave land to small farmers who had to pay a small fee and promise to live on the land for 5 years
What is the Homestead Act?
100
Treaty where the U.S. government promised to pay for any damages done to the Indians' land.
What is the treaty of Laramie?
100
Two discoveries in Nevada which caused many people to go west
What were gold and silver?
100
Breed of cattle that spread throughout Texas.
What are longhorns?
200
African American farmers from the south who moved west.
What are Exodusters?
200
areas of government land set aside for Indians
What are reservations?
200
Strike that was a huge deposit of precious ore.
What is Comstock Lode
200
Public land where ranchers grazed their cattle
What is open range?
300
When did the two rr companies meet in Promontary, Utah
What is May 10, 1969
300
Pioneers used sod to make their houses
What is a sod house?
300
Cheyenne Indian chief who lost his tribe at the Sand Creek Massacre.
Who was Black Kettle?
300
Three dangers of working in the mine
What are dust, cave-ins, and little oxygen?
300
"Cattle Queen of Montana"
Who was Elizabeth Collins?
400
Bigest industry in U.S. in 1890
What are the railroads?
400
Small one room building with a stove in the middle to provide warmth?
What is a pioneer school?
400
In this treaty the Plains Indians agreed to live on reservations.
What is the treaty of Medicine Lodge?
400
Towns that sprang where a mine opened and closed when the mine left.
What are boomtowns?
400
Workers who took care of the rancher's cattle
Who were cowboys?
500
This act gave millions of acres of public land to railroad companies
What is the Pacific Railway Act?
500
A big chore that took the whole day
What is washing clothes?
500
Religious movement that said if Indians do this dance a new life free from suffering will happen
What is Ghost Dance?
500
Three place that you would find in a boomtown.
What are general stores, saloons, and boarding houses?
500
pPopular route for cattle drive
What is the Chisholm Trail?
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