Railroads
What are the two railroad companies that built the Transcontinental Railroad?
What is the Union Railroad and Central Pacific Railroad.
Who was the first to build a RR in Israel?
What is the Ottomans
What animal is revered and closely associated with the Native American culture in the plains?
What are bison (or buffalo).
Sudden prosperity of people or economics.
What is a boomtown.
Settlers who acquired free land offered by the government.
What is a homesteader.
How did railroads connect the east and west?
What is... transportation of goods (manufacturing), raw resources (out of west), and people.
How did the Valley Rail change the region`s landscape?
What is...many Jewish settlements were built alongside the Railway.
Who were the Native American leaders during the Battle of Little Bighorn?
Bonus: What was the Lieutenant of the US armed forces that lost his life in this battle? (50pts)
Who is Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse.
Bonus: Who is George A. Custer.
Who are individuals that take the law into their own hands?
Who are vigilantes.
What type of dwelling did some settlers in the Plains construct?
What is a sod house or "soddies".
What immigrants groups were the main source of labor for the (1) Central-Pacific railroad and (2) Union railroad?
Who are (1) the Chinese, and (2) the Irish.
Why was the Valley Rail built?
What is...in order to connect the Hijaz RR project to Acco bay (Haifa bay).
What Native American massacre ended armed resistance in the west?
What is the Wounded Knee Massacre.
Who were the first cowhands?
What is Spanish and Mexican vaqueros.
Why did railroads support farming on the Plains?
What is more shipping (transporting crops across the country).
How was the construction of railroads funded?
What is... loans from the federal government and land grants (for every 1 mile of track laid, RR received 20 miles of free land). The RR companies sold this land to fund more construction.
How did the train change house economics in late 19th century Jerusalem?
What is...it brought many new Jews who came to live there as well as many pilgrims.
What was the name and year of the Act that tried to transform the Native Americans from wanderers into farmers?
What is the Dawes Act of 1887.
What lead to the decline of long drives and the cattle industry?
What is reduction in the price of meat (relating to supply and demand) and barbed wire, which acted as a barrier to movement.
Act that offered 160 acres of land to those agreeing to live on the land and farm in it for 5 years.
What is the Homestead Act of 1862
Where is the point where the two halves of the Transcontinental Railroad meet?
What is Promontory Point, Utah.
What year the first train in Israel was built?
What is 1892.
What was the name of the Native American group caught near the Canadian border trying to escape?
Who are the Nez Percés.
Who founded the first cowtown and where was it located?
What is Joseph McCoy, & Abilene, Kansas
Who were the Exodusters and what did they believe?
Who is an African-American seeking freedom in the west to avoid discrimination, post-Civil war.
What is they were like the Jews who fled from Egypt.