RAILROADS!
This is typically transported using railroads.
What is crops, weapons, building materials, and livestock?
This was the most common way Indians rebelled against railroad companies.
What is derailing trains and attacking them?
What is Congress?
Many farmers preferred the west.
What is flat land that is perfect for agriculture?
These pros compelled railroad companies to build.
What is opening the West to new settlers?
These were the most common workers for the railroads.
What is Irish and Chinese immigrants?
This tribe was the friendliest with Americans.
What is the Nez Perce?
This person was the president of the Central Pacific railroad company.
Who is Leland Stanford?
This act convinced settlers to travel west with promises of 160 acres of land.
What is the Homestead Act?
The cons of hunting buffalo.
What is depriving food from Native tribes causing them to starve?
This ex-general led the Union Pacific Railroad west.
Who is Grenville Dodge?
The leader of the Nez Perce.
Who is Chief Joseph?
This Sioux chief said this: "I will remain what I am until I die, a hunter, and when there are no buffalo or other game I will send my children to hunt and live on prairie mice, for when an Indian is shut up in one place, his body becomes weak."
Who is Sioux chief Sitting Bull?
Many settlers chose western Nevada to live.
What is a plentiful of riches in the Sierra Nevada Mountains?
These cons scared away miners.
What is lung disease, and danger of collapsing mines?
This is how railroads are built.
What is tracklayers placing down rails while spikers nail down spikes?
This battle is often known as a "Last Stand" due to the way the Indians fought to keep their land.
What is the Battle of the Little Big Horn?
This spiritual leader of the Paiute Indians invented the Ghost Dance.
Who is Wovoka?
This act gave 17 million acres of land to states who were required to sell this land in order to build colleges everywhere.
What is the Morill Act?
The cons of many Boomtowns often kept travelers from staying there.
What is cheap and temporily builds?
What is May 10th, 1869?
This was the place where the famous "Massacre at Wounded Knee" occurred.
Where is Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota?
This person nailed the final golden spike connecting the two railroads.
Who is Governor Sanford?
This national organization was made to teach farmers what to do in the Great Plains.
What is the National Grange?
These pros encouraged the cattle industry.
What is high demand and low price for cattle?