Railroad
What is the transcontinental railroad?
What is a railroad that would cross an entire continent?
What is a frontier?
What is land that has not been settled?
What is a lode?
What is a rich source of precious metal?
Who were homesteaders?
Who were people who gained land through the Homestead Act?
What is a reservation?
What is an area of land set aside for its people (American Indians).
What type of food did the Chinese Immigrants eat?
What is seafood and vegetables?
What is a trail boss?
What is a town that grew quickly called?
What is a boomtown?
What was a sodbuster?
What was a prairie farmer?
What did the Sioux Indians think performing a Ghost Dance ceremony would achieve?
What did the Indians do to try and please the spirits, give them power over the white man, and bring back their old way of life?
What landforms did workers face when building the transcontinental railroad?
What is rock and mountains?
Where were cattle drives lead to and why?
They were led to cow towns so that they could be shipped by train.
What is a ghost town?
What is a deserted town with empty buildings and silent streets?
Who slipped past the borders of Oklahoma and claimed land before it was allowed?
Who were Sooners?
What is one of the most famous battles in American History?
What is 'The Battle of Little Bighorn'?
How much track was the Central Pacific line able to lay in one day?
What is ten miles of track laid every day?
What was the most famous cattle drive trail?
What is the Chisholm trail?
What slogan did people paint on their wagons when they traveled west?
What is 'Pikes Peak or Bust'?
What inventions were a great help to farmers settling in the West?
What is the steel plow and the reaper?
Which leader agreed to surrender and moved their tribe to a reservation in Oklahoma?
Who was the Nez Pierce Leader, Chief Joseph?
What did people travel West for?
What is for work, for gold, for families to settle (also for souls).
Who was the most famous lawman in the Wild West?
Who is "Wild Bill" Hickok?
Who was Ezra Fisher?
Who was one of the missionaries to the West?
What was the Homestead Act?
What was an important act that opened land in the west to settlers to have up to 160 acres of land each.
Why did the Dawes Act fail to help the Indians?
The Dawes Act gave Indians there own land, but it people often cheated them out of their land, and they were not used to owning or taking care of land like the farmers.