How Do You Get Your Mail?
One type of overland mail travel included a horse and rider team, traveling between St. Joseph, Missouri and San Francisco, California. What was the name of this mail delivery team?
What was the Pony Express?
What is the name of the type of railroad that reaches across the United States?
What was the transcontinental railroad?
What was a major cause of the Great Depression?
What is the Stock Market Crash?
What was the Dust Bowl?
What is a time in the early 1900's where the middle of the United States was covered in dust and farms failed?
The Pony Express had famous mail delivery members, including one famous cowboy. What was the name of the cowboy who had a reputation for hunting buffalo?
What was Buffalo Bill?
What type of horses were used during overland mail delivery?
What was mustangs?
What two materials were used to build the railroad?
What was metal and wood?
Where did people move because they thought they would have a better life?
What is California?
Name one cause of the Dust Bowl to the Midwest area. (Not Stock Market crash)
What was livestock/people/homes/farms destroyed?
Who was the president that signed the Pacific Railroad Act of 1862?
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
What caused the end of the overland mail delivery service?
What was the telegraph?
Which group of immigrants made up 96% of the workers on the railroad?
What was Chinese?
What is a Pipe City?
What is a place where people who moved to California due to the dust and lived in giant sewer pipes because they couldn't afford homes or apartments?
What was "Black Sunday?"
What is a day where the dust was so bad, it was black. It last for almost a week and happened more than once, the most famous, on a Sunday?
Which President was in power during the Great Depression?
Who was Roosevelt?
What famous bank helped fund the Pony Express?
What is Wells Fargo and Company?
In what city did the two railroad companies meet?
What was Promontory, Utah?
California experienced a boom in people moving to the territory before the Great Depression. Why?
What is the Gold Rush?
What is an “Okie?”
What is a Dust Bowl Refugee?
What is Mrs. Camacho's first name?
Who is Lydia?
In what city did the Pony Express finish their route?
What is Sacramento, CA?
There were two railroad companies fighting to build the railroad faster. One was the Central Pacific Company. What was the other one?
What is the Union Pacific Company?
What book was written by John Steinbeck that features the Great Depression?
What is The Grapes of Wrath?
Who wrote the song, "Dust Bowl Refugee?"
Who is Woody Guthrie?
What is Ms. Clark's first name?
What is Shannon?