The Buffalo
Mining Boomtowns
Cattle & Farming
Women and Children on the Prairie
Vocabulary
100
The Buffalo is the national ____________ of the United States.
What is mammal?
100
The term used to describe panning for gold by hand.
What is placer mining?
100
The word used to describe the movement of herds of cows across the plains to cow towns.
What are cattle drives?
100
As many as 48 children would meet here for a non-mandatory school day.
What is a one-room schoolhouse?
100
The word used to describe having an excess, over abundance, or too much of something.
What is surplus?
200
The introduction of this mammal in the West made hunting buffalo more efficient.
What is the horse?
200
A type of mining that required the use of pressurized water, and then adding toxic chemicals to draw out precious metals.
What is hydraulic mining?
200
After 1978, this advancement in food storage allowed for beef to be transported throughout the US.
What is refrigeration / cooling?
200
If a woman's _____________ died, she would take on the responsibilities on the prairie.
What is husband?
200
Laborers that moved from one farm to another.
Who are migrant workers?
300
This Native American tribe had 27 different words for buffalo.
Who are the Cheyenne?
300
The word used to describe someone who has started their own business.
Who are entreprenuers?
300
25% of cowboys were this ethnicity, and migrated West after the Civil war.
What is African American?
300
What was considered more important than school for children on the prairie?
What is helping on the farm at home.
300
Thousands of African Americans that moves to Kansas in a mass migration.
Who are exodusters?
400
The nickname for the man that was hired to hunt at least 12 buffalo per day.
Who is Buffalo Bill?
400
What two states were large lodes of copper found in the US?
What are Arizona and New Mexico?
400
The name of the act that encouraged Westward expansion.
What is the homestead act?
400
The group of people responsible to help care for gardens, milk cows, and churn butter.
Who are children?
400
A large deposit of a precious metal such as silver or gold.
What is a lode?
500
The name of the man who hired someone to capture buffalo so that he could raise them on his plantation.
Who is George Washington?
500
Abandoned towns that have fallen to ruin.
What are ghost towns?
500
The name for enormous tracts of land sold to investors to cover the debts for the Northern Pacific Railroad.
What are bonanza farms?
500
These readers were a common school curriculum used in one-room schoolhouses. They promoted good character, a strong work ethic, and honesty.
What are the McGuffey Readers?
500
A vast area of flat land, usually covered with tall plants that could be used for grazing.
What is a prairie?
