Railroads
A railroad that goes coast to coast.
What is transcontinental?
Someone who searches for resources/minerals.
What is a prospector?
Why did Native Americans have conflict with railroad companies?
Railroad companies were killing all the buffalo that the Native Americans needed to survive.
Houses on the Great Plains were made of this material
sod
Land set aside for Native American tribes.
reservation
Apache leader who led violent raids against white settlers. He escaped to Mexico, but was later captured.
Geronimo
The company who built the transcontinental railroad WEST starting in Omaha, NB.
What was the Union Pacific?
After gold was discovered in the Black Hills what happened to the Lakota Sioux that lived there?
They were forced to move onto a reservation.
What is a rustler?
Person that steals cattle
This technology helped pump water from deep underground
windmill
Leader of the Nez Perce. Led his people on a journey to escape to Canada. They did not make it.
Chief Joseph
Group of people that rode train cars from town to town seeking work
Hoboes
The name of the company that built the transcontinental railroad EAST starting in Sacramento, CA.
What was the Central Pacific?
Name the group of people that first came to the U.S. to seek gold, but later worked to build the first transcontinental railroad.
Chinese
Journey through the vasts grazing land to trains.
What is the Long Drive?
Homestead Act gave people this many acres of land as long as they farmed it for 5 years.
160
The last significant conflict between troops and the Sioux nation. It started with an accidental shot fired.
What was Wounded Knee?
Boomtowns turned into this after the gold vein ran out
ghost towns
Two benefits of the Transcontinental railroad.
PICK TWO: What is unite the country? What is brought people out to settle the land? What is brought goods/raw materials back east to markets.
Towns that seemed to pop up overnight to supply miners with supplies
Boomtowns
Cowboys cooperated with this group of people. Cowboys moved their cattle to the trains.
Ranchers
What was the purpose of the steel plow?
To break up the hard packed ground.
Law that attempted to turn Native Americans into farmers.
What was the Dawes Act?
Chief of the Lakota Sioux and led tribe at Little Bighorn.
Sitting Bull
The transcontinental railroad was completed where?
Promontory Point, Utah
They had the resources, workers and equipment to dig faster and deeper underground to gather more precious minerals.
What are mining companies?
Farmers had conflict with these people because large herds of cattle crossed the farms and destroyed crops.
Cowboys
The invention cowboys hated.
barbed wire
Another name for Custer's Last Stand
Battle of Little Bighorn
Nickname for African-Americans who settled on the Great Plains.
Exodusters