Terms
Western Challenges
Gold Rush
100
Used to keep animals out of yards when no wood was available.
What is barbed wire?
100
These little buggers ate the crops of unlucky farmers.
What are locusts/Grasshoppers?
100
This man was the first to discover gold in California.
Who James Marshal?
200
This house was built when there wasn't enough wood and were more comfortable in winter and summer seasons.
What are sod houses?
200
These burned up crops and houses in there paths.
What are prairie fires/wild fires?
200
These were the people looking for gold.
Who are the Argonauts?
300
Gave 160 acres of free land to settlers in the west.
What is the Homestead act of 1862/ Homestead Act?
300
These destroyed everything in there path as they whirled their way through the plains.
What are tornadoes/twisters?
300
This was a different type of 'gold' found in California.
What is the beauty of California?
400
Land that was referred to as Indian Territory.
What is Oklahoma?
400
These left the soil unable to be fertile and also inconveniently got in farmers eyes.
What is sand storms?
400
Land referred to as Indian Territory
What is Oklahoma?
500
These battered farmers and crushed crops.
What are hailstorms?
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