People
The name of Sacagawea's baby.
Who was Pomp?
The event that started the Civil War
What was the firing on Fort Sumter? (Or, the Battle of Fort Sumter)
The state where all the Cattle drives began
What was Texas?
The Shawnee general who led a revolt after the Battle of Tippecanoe.
Who was Tecumseh?
The Erie Canal connected Lake Erie with this river.
What was the Hudson River?
The religion Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton was before she converted to Catholicism.
What was Episcopalian?
The 2 main leaders of the Union and Confederate armies at the end of the war.
Who were Robert E. Lee (South) and Ulysses S. Grant (North).
Where gold was discovered in 1948.
What was Sutter's Mill (in California)?
The chief who surrendered and escaped twice, and finally surrendered a third time for good.
Who was Chief Geronimo?
This new tool allowed pioneers to plant crops in very tough soil.
What was a steel plow?
A woman who came to the USA from France and served the Native American people.
Who was Saint Rose Philippine Duchesne?
The battle where people brought picnic baskets and thought the war would be over soon.
What was the Battle of Manassas (or Bull Run)?
The town and state where the Oregon Trail began.
What was Independence, Missouri?
Chief Joseph's tribe and the place they called home.
What were the Nex Perce people of the Wallowa territory/mountains in Oregon.
This new invention allowed farmers to get their crops to eastern cities faster, because they could use the rivers more efficiently.
What was the steamboat?
The man who came to the USA to serve German-speaking immigrants and died of Yellow Fever in Louisiana.
Who was Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos?
The man who led the "March to the Sea" and burned many fields and farms.
Who was General Sherman?
The place where the Transcontinental Railroad met.
What was Promontory Point?
The place and name of the massacre that took place after Sitting Bull's death, because of the Ghost Dance and a gun accidentally firing.
What was Wounded Knee? (South Dakota)
This method of farming allowed pioneers to keep their crops irrigated.
What was dry farming?
The President who wanted to stay out of other country's problems and focus on America.
Who was James Monroe?
The dates of the Battle of Gettysburg.
What was July 1-3, 1863?
The name of Lincoln's decision in 1862 to give 160 acres of land on the prairie free to settlers.
What was the Homestead Act?
When Natives were sent away from a fort to hunt for their own food, soldiers followed them and this took place (name the event and state).
What was the Sand Creek Massacre (Colorado)?
These 2 new inventions changed the cattle drives forever, and ended the age of the cowboy.
What were the trains, and barbed wire?