People
States
Railroads
Expansion
Miscellaneous
100
What are people who leave their homelands and move to another country called?
Who are immigrants.
100
Who sold Alaska to the united states?
Who is Russia
100
Did railroads help expand the west?
What is yes.
100
What kind of house did settlers live in?
What are sod houses.
100
Are cowboy books and films accurate?
What is no.
200
Which group of people became rich from the mining frontier?
Who were merchants and mining companies.
200
What is Oklahoma's nickname?
What is Sooner State.
200
How did railroads help expand the west?
What is the railroads made the land near them more valuable.
200
What was the name of the imaginary line that marks the east and west?
What is a frontier.
200
What is a town that has a sudden increase in population called?
What is a boom town.
300
Who failed to become rich from mining?
Who are miners.
300
What is Alaska's nickname?
What is The Last Frontier.
300
Why did farmers and ranchers want railroads?
They wanted to move their agricultural goods west.
300
How much land would you get with the homestead act?
What was 100 acres.
300
What is an icebox?
What is container used for keeping things cool.
400
Who did the cowboys argue with?
Who were farmers and sheepherders.
400
How big is Alaska?
What is 663,300 square miles.
400
Where could people travel on the first railroads? Daily Double
From San Francisco to Omaha.
400
How did people claim land in the homestead act?
What is by planting a flag.
400
What kind of justice was developed in the mining frontier?
What was Vigilante Justice.
500
Who described life in a boom town as sidewalks swarmed with people, crowded streets, money as plenty as dust, and lots of vehicles? Daily Double
Who is Mark Twain.
500
At what time and for how much did the United States buy Alaska?
What is at 4:00 am for 7.2 million dollars.
500
What are the names of the two companies who built the transcontinental railroad?
What is the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific.
500
Why did the government close the frontier?
What is because the land that was left had little rain.
500
How much was the reward for Billy The Kid?
What is $5,000.
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