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When the Central Pacific started building East from Sacramento, California.
When is February 1863?
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A railroad that would cross the continent and connect the East to the West.
What is a Transcontinental Railroad?
100
The first major treaty between the U.S. government and the Plains Indians.
What is the Treaty of Fort Laramie?
100
Where the Union Pacific started building West from in 1863.
Where is Omaha, Nebraska?
100
Discovered a huge deposit of gold and silver in Nevada in 1859.
Who is Henry Comstock?
200
Custer's scouts found a Sioux camp along the Little Bighorn River in Montana Territory.
When is June 25, 1876?
200
Communities that grew suddenly when a mine opened.
What are boomtowns?
200
In 1867 most southern Plain Indians agreed to live on reservations.
What is the Treaty of Medicine Lodge?
200
A new method of farming that shifted the focus away from water-dependent crops such as corn.
What is dry farming?
200
A Paiute Indian who called for reform in the late 1870's.
Who is Sarah Winnemucca?
300
Geronimo and his band of raiders surrendered, ending the Apache armed resistance.
When is September, 1886?
300
A system of sending messages by horseback started in 1860.
What is the Pony Express?
300
Gave government-owned land to small farmers.
What is the Homestead Act?
300
A 300-mile march the Navajo were forced to walk across the desert to a reservation in Bosque Redondo, New Mexico.
What is the Long Walk.
300
Two companies that led the race to complete the transcontinental railroad.
Who are the Central Pacific and Union Pacific?
400
Congress passed the Interstate Commerce Act.
When is February 1887?
400
The U.S. Army shot and killed 150 Sioux near Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota.
What is the Massacre at Wounded Knee?
400
Tried to lessen the traditional influence on Indian society by making the land ownership private rather than shared in 1887.
What is the Dawes General Allotment Act?
400
A Paiute Indian named Wovoka started a religious movement that predicted the arrival of paradise for Native Americans.
What is the Ghost Dance?
400
She used her influence to support a variety of moral and social causes such as women's suffrage and temperance.
Who is Annie Bidwell?
500
When a golden spike was used to connect the railroad tie joining the two tracks.
When is May 10, 1869?
500
A social and educational organization for farmers.
What is the National Grange?
500
Granted more than 17 million acres of federal land to the states.
What is the Morrill Act?
500
The Great Plains from Texas to Canada, where many ranchers raised cattle in the late 1800's.
What is the Cattle Kingdom?
500
A candidate supported by both the Populist Party and the Democrats, who also supported the Free Silver movement.
Who is William Jennings Bryan?