Westward Journeys
Many families used these to carry their belongings west?
What is Covered Wagons (Slide 2)
Cattle thrived on this abundant resource across the Great Plains.
What is grass?
This company was assigned to build east from Sacramento.
What is the Central Pacific Railroad?
Westward migration pushed these people from their ancestral lands.
Who are Indigenous people?
In 1848, workers found this precious metal near Sutter’s Mill in California.
What is gold?
This body of water was the boundary where travelers believed the wilderness began.
What is the Mississippi River (Slide 2)
These Mexican horsemen established many cowboy customs.
Who were vaqueros?
Chinese laborers made up this fraction of the Central Pacific workforce.
What is four-fifths?
These peoples of the Great Plains fought against the invasion of their lands and the destruction of their way of life.
Who are Great Plains tribes?
These prospectors were nicknamed for arriving in California in 1849.
Who were the forty-niners?
Travelers used this word for the boundary marking the beginning of wilderness.
What is the frontier? (Slide 2)
This cattle breed roamed the plains after many Texas ranchers left for the Civil War.
What are longhorns?
For each mile of track laid, the government offered railroad companies up to this amount in loans.
What is $48,000?
These three tribes controlled territory along the Union Pacific route.
Who are the Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Lakota?
This kind of gold was carried into streambeds by water erosion and could be gathered with simple tools.
What is placer gold?
This week's or month-long journey took travelers across the land toward the West.
What is an overland expedition? (Slide 2)
A team of a dozen cowboys could drive more than this many cattle at once.
What is more than 1,000 cattle?
For each mile of track laid, the government granted each railroad company this much land.
What are 6,400 acres?
This military force had been fighting the Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Lakota for years.
What is the U.S. Army?
Miners used this term for thick veins of metal in solid rock.
What are lodes?
Scarce water, wood, and food made these hard to find on the plains.
What are limited resources?
This trail ran from San Antonio, Texas, to Abilene, Kansas, during the long-drive era.
What is the Chisholm Trail?
The Central Pacific's final-mile workers came from this country.
What is China?
Attacks by Indigenous tribes on railroad workers sometimes halted this.
What is railroad construction?
Large companies used these to wash away hillsides in search of gold, damaging habitats and polluting rivers.
What are hydraulic machines?