Wild Wild West
The name of the land purchased by Thomas Jefferson that doubled the land of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
What state did the Central and Union Pacific railroads come together at Promontory Summit?
Time increases by one hour when traveling from time zone to time zone in this direction.
What is (the) East?
This is the official title of the time period when America was put back together after the Civil War.
What was reconstruction?
Towns out west that sprung up out of nowhere and disappeared just as fast.
What are boomtowns?
African Americans and Irish workers would join the Union Pacific railroad building Westward from this state.
This is the time it would be in Maryville Christian school if your grandma in California woke up at 7am.
What is 9am?
U.S. Grant and General William Tecumseh Sherman believed in this type of warfare that attacked property of civilians.
This is the type of railroad people in the West wanted in order to connect both coasts of the United States.
What is a transcontinental railroad?
This is what many railroad owners competed to receive as railroads were bulit.
What are (government) subsidies?
This is the time it would be in New York if you called your friend there at noon from the top of the Rocky Mountains.
This is the place where the South surrendered to the North to end the Civil War.
What is Appomattox (Courthouse)?
What is the Cherokee?
This is who hammered in the golden spike at Promontory Summit.
Who was Leland Stanford?
This is the time it would be in Alaska if it was 5am in Hawaii.
What is 6am?
This was the first African American to be elected to the Senate.
When it took six months to travel west by wagon - this is how long it now took to travel by train.
What is seven days?
Chinese workers would lay down this many miles of railroad track in a single day for the Central Pacific railroad.
This is the time people are watching in London if the World Cup final is being played in Chicago at 6pm.
What is midnight?
Who was the President who promised to remove the military districts from the South in exchange for their vote?
Who was Rutherford B Hayes?