Railroads
This was the first major railroad to stretch across the American continent.
What was the Transcontinental Railroad?
People flocking to a location to find gold.
What is a gold rush?
People responsible for moving cattle.
Who are cowboys?
This law resulted in the removal of Native Americans to the western side of the Mississippi River.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
The US Army targeted this animal in an attempt to weaken the Plains Indians.
What are bison? (Will accept buffalo)
These two companies built the Transcontinental Railroad.
Who are Union Pacific and Central Pacific?
It was at this mine where "corrupted" gold was found (it was actually silver).
What is the Comstock Lode?
Number of people on a cattle-moving crew.
What is twelve?
These were tracts of land (albeit, not the best land) set aside for Native American tribes in an attempt to keep peace.
What were reservations?
This is the specific location where the builders of the Transcontinental Railroad "met in the middle."
What (where?) is Promontory Point? (Do not just accept Utah)
These communities cropped up in the West in response to sudden economic growth.
What are boomtowns?
The term used to describe the journey of moving oxen from one place to another.
What is a cattle drive?
This law allowed people to pay a small filing fee in exchange for claiming 160 acres of land for development.
What was the Homestead Act?
This group of Native tribes included the Cheyenne, Comanche, and the Sioux nations.
Who were the Plains Indians?
This immigrant group made up a very large percentage of the workforce on the Transcontinental Railroad.
Who were the Chinese?
What is California?
This "cool" invention made the cowboys obselete.
What is the refrigerated railcar?
These people illegally snuck into Oklahoma to get a head start over their law-abiding peers.
Who were the Sooners?
This one-sided violent affair resulted in the deaths of nearly 300 Sioux people and 30 US soldiers.
What was the Wounded Knee Massacre?
This US immigration law targeted workers on the Transcontinental Railroad.
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Hype and excitement around finding gold.
What is gold fever?
This industry consisted of the slaughtering, prepping, packaging, and distribution of meat.
What is meatpacking?
This event began at the sound of a cannon, prompting hundreds of settlers to dangerously race into the countryside.
What was the Oklahoma Land Rush?
This religious ritual was performed to restore Native cultures and raise loved ones from the dead. It also prompted paranoia from the US government.
What is the ghost dance?