This precious metal motivated people to move out West to California.
What is gold?
100
These people were responsible for keeping the longhorn safe during cattle drives.
Who are cowboys, vaqueros?
100
This is another word for "problem," and is something that was often experienced between the settlers and the Native Americans.
What is conflict?
100
Native Americans were often moved off their land and sent to these--land set aside for a Native American group?
What are reservations?
100
This African-American leader from Louisiana encouraged African-Americans to move to Kansas.
Who is Henry Adams?
200
These people were African-Americans who believed they should leave the South and move to Kansas.
Who are exodusters?
200
These were people who claimed free land under the Homestead Act
What are homesteaders?
200
These people often sneaked around and tried stealing longhorn during the cattle drives.
What are rustlers?
200
This was the most used cattle drive in the United States.
What is the Chisholm Trail?
200
These big, fluffy, strong, and sometimes delicious animals were a major natural resource for the Native Americans.
Hint: they don't really have wings
What are buffalo?
300
The lack of money and property
What is poverty?
300
He was the most famous of the African-American cowboys.
Who is Nat Love?
300
In the North and the South, there was a shortage of cattle (which were used to feed the soldiers) as a result of this war.
What is the American Civil War?
300
The Chisholm Trail passed through these three states.
What is Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.
300
People from this European country were the first to bring longhorn to America. They are also known for settling Texas.
What is Spain/Spanish?
400
Known as "rights of ownership"
What are property rights?
400
A third of all cowboys in America were either African-American or __________________?
What is Hispanic-American, Mexican?
400
This was the name given to the homes built by homesteaders. It is named for the type of material they used to build them.
What is a soddy?
400
When attempting to sell them, ranchers placed their cattle on this mobile transportation machine.
What is a train, or railroad, or transcontinental railroad?
500
This idea--the belief that Americans had the divine right to conquer all of America, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean--helped lead to the creation of the transcontinental railroad.
What is manifest destiny?
500
This president signed the Homestead Act in 1862.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
500
On June 25, 1876, this American military man attacked the Native American Chief, Sitting Bull's, camp on the Little Bighorn River.
Who is Colonel George Custer?
500
This is the site where Colonel George Custer was killed during his battle against Chief Sitting Bull.
What is Little Bighorn?
500
This is the location where the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railways met.