Technology/Innovation
Morse code was invented to help people communicate through this tool.
What is the Telegraph?
The Homestead Act gave settlers this many acres of land.
What is 160?
This animal was considered sacred to most Native Americans.
What is the Buffalo?
This group is mostly known for riding horses and their skills with the lasso.
What is a cowboy?
This is the belief that God has made moving Westward America's destiny following the Civil War.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This new mode of transportation cut the time needed to travel West down from several months to two weeks.
Was is the Train or Railroad?
Most homesteaders lived in this kind of house on the Great Plains.
What is a sod house?
Name any of the tribes involved in the treaties we signed in the Great Plains or Southwest.
Who are the Nez Perce, Sioux, Pawnee, Cheyenne, Crow, Blackfeet, Apache, Arapaho, or Assiniboine?
This group was the first racial group specifically excluded from the US by an 1882 law.
What is Chinese Immigrants?
Before the Civil War most individuals used this form of transportation to move out West.
What is a Wagon?
This invention by John Deere to dig deeper into the tough soil of the Great Plains
What is the Steel Plow?
This was named given to those who moved out West first. They had to dig through the top layer of dirt (called sod) to plant.
What are sodbusters?
This is the reason Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse decided to fight back, starting the Great Sioux War.
What is they we being removed from their sacred land (the Black Hills)?
This is name given to towns that sprung up very quickly during the rush for Gold and other metals in the West.
This act (law) was designed to encourage people to move out West.
This was the main crop grown in the Great Plains by new settlers.
What is Wheat?
This is the name for the group of African American Pioneers that moved out West during this period.
What are Exodusters?
This act (law) by the US was designed to help Native Americans and resolve the problems of reservation life.
What is the Dawes Severalty Act?
This group burned railroads and cut barbed wire fences in order to push new settlers off their territory and preserve their culture.
What is Las Gorras Blancas?
America acquire much of Texas and California from this.
What is war with Mexico?
This is the place where the Golden Spike was placed for the Transcontinental Railroad.
What is Promontory, Utah?
This is the weather event Gro Svendsen described to his family in the fall of 1863 after the prairie grass dried out.
What is a Prairie Fire?
This is the name of the Paiute holy man who preached about a Messiah coming to save the Native Americans and taught the Ghost Dance.
Who is Wovoka?
This is the name of the rope cowboys used to lasso animals.
What is the lariat?
This was the name of the city you try to reach at the end of the Oregon Trail game.
What is Oregon City, Oregon?