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Railroads
Fort Laramie Treaty
Dawes Act
Election of 1896
Homestead Act
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This is a railroad line that spanned the continent.

What is a transcontinental railroad?
100
The government wanted the Native American's to stop following this animal.
What is a buffalo?
100
This is the year when Congress passed the Dawes Act.
When is 1887?
100
This is the Democrat in the election.
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
100
This is the year that the Homestead Act occurred.
When is 1862?
200

This person built the first and only transcontinental railroad on May 10, 1869.

Who is Leland Stanford?
200
This is the year when the Fort Laramie Treaty happened.
When is 1851?
200
This is the amount of land that the Native American males each received to farm.
What is 160 acres.
200
This is the Republican in the election.
Who is William McKinley?
200
This is a settler who acquired free land from the government.
What is a Homesteader?
300
This is where the railroad lines ended at before 1860.
What is the Mississippi River?
300
This is the amount of people who gathered near Fort Laramie in Wyoming.
What is ten thousand people?
300
This is what the Dawes Act wanted Native Americans to become.

What is a farmer?

300
This is William Jennings Brown's nickname. 
What is the "Great Commoner?"
300
This is what the Homestead Act offered.
What is a 160-acre plot to anyone who resided on the land for five years.
400
This is what the government gave the railroads for each mile of track.
What is 10 square miles?
400
The government would protect their lands as long as the Native Americans did this.

What is settle permanently? 


400
This is what the act set up.
What are boarding schools?
400
This is the winner of the Election of 1896.
Who is William McKinley?
400
This is the percentage of Homesteaders that lasted the required 5 years.
What is one in three (1/3)?
500
This is what the federal government offered to help make the railroads.
What are subsidies?
500
This is what happened right after the treaty was signed that caused the Native Americans to become angry at the government.
What is settlers moving onto their land?
500
This is the main goal of the Dawes Act.
What is to make Native American's lives better?
500
This is the group of people who supported the Democrats, and faded away after the election.
Who are the Populists?
500
This is where Homesteaders settled.
What are the Great Plains?