General Info
The Wild West was very ______ to live in.
A) easy
B) difficult
Cowboys helped take care of...
A) Just cattle
B) Cattle and horses
C) Cattle and horses AND helped repair things in town.
Children started working when they were just...
4
Correct the mistake: More than 300,000 people came from all over the world to try and get poor.
rich
Sometimes in the Wild West there were no:
A) laws or prisons
B) laws or police
C) laws or criminals
D) laws or cowboys
The Wild West lasted for _____ years.
A) 50
B) 30
C) 40
D) 60
Cowboys lived away from home and made ________ a month.
A) 25-40 dollars
B) 15-20 dollars
C) 25-35 dollars
D) 50-75 dollars
Children helped their family by: getting water from the river, _____________, chopping wood, and looking after their younger brothers and sisters.
milking cows
Why did people go to "Boomtowns"?
Because they needed a place to live so they built them!
Jesse James was a famous outlaw who robbed banks and _______.
trains
In the Wild West there were no police stations, cinemas, fire departments or ________.
A) Restaurants
B) Bars
C) Cinemas
D) Zoo's
Correct the mistake: Cowboys ate vegetables and meat.
beans
Correct the mistake: All children went to school in a schoolhouse
only some
What did people do when they couldn't find any gold?
They moved to another place to look.
Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid were outlaws who were part of a gang called the __________.
A) Wild kids
B) Wild cowboys
C) Wild criminals
D) Wild Bunch
Correct the mistake: On farms the entire family would work from lunch until dinner.
Sunrise until sunset
until the sun is out until the sun goes down
until there is no more light
Which one wasn't a famous cowboy?
A) Buffalo Bill Cody
B) Wild Bill Hickock
C) Annie Oakley
D) Andy Tornado
D) Andy Tornado
Were children who could go to school lucky or not? Why?
Yes they are. They are lucky because not all children get to go to school because they must help their families and work a lot.
Do any Ghost Towns still exist today? Why?
Yes they do, because no one ever moved back to these towns!
Once, after the outlaws robbed a bank they _____ ___ ________ of themselves and sent it to the bank with a thank you note for the money!
A) Took a picture
B) Posted an Instagram photo
C) Took a Snapchat
D) Took a video