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Rail Roads
Gold Rush
Native American
the Homestead Act
Mixed
100
The ethnicity of the immigrants who helped to build the RR
Who are the Chinese and Irish?
100
What happened in 1849
What is the year gold is found in california?
100
used by NA for food, clothing and shelter
What is buffalo?
100
The amount of land given away in the Homestead Act
What is 160 acres
100
Rapid Rise in prices
What is Inflation?
200
Were did the Rail Roads moguls get the money and land to build the RR
Through government hand outs and subsidies and land grants
200
Boom Town
What is the name of a rapidly growing town?
200
Flat grassland in the middle of our nation were many NAs lived
What is the Great Plains?
200
Praire houses were built with this
What is "Sod" or grass and dirt?
200
One of the largest vein of silver ever found
What is Comstock Lode?
300
It's the name given to the RR that crosses the country.
What is the Transcontinental RR?
300
Name given to a town that went bust.
What is a ghost town?
300
the event that started the "Indian Wars"
What is the Sand Creek Massacre?
300
the plains farmer heated their houses with this
What is buffalo "chips" or dried manure
300
number of years a homesteader had to live on the land before it became his
What is five years?
400
Where had the RRs stopped before the Civil War?
What is the Mississippi River?
400
Jobs for women in mining towns.
What is a laundress,ran boarding houses, cooks
400
A place NA were forced to live on or with in
What is a reservation?
400
Why did RR companies gave away land and recruited immigrants to settle in the West (what was their motivation)
What is to make more profit moving people and goods across the nation?
400
It is the other name of Custer's Last Stand
What is the battle of Little Big Horn?
500
How did the RRs promote farming and setttlement
What is they gave away land and carried goods west
500
People who kept law and order in mining towns
Who are vigilantes?
500
It assumed if you gave NAs 160 acres of land they would become farmers
What is the DAWES ACT?
500
Name of the political party formed to help farmers and Union Workers
What is Populist Party?
500
The Nez Perces, Appache, Cheyennes and the Sioux
What are Plains Indians?