Land & Travel
The Great Plains were settled because of these three reasons.
What is an increase in rainfall, free land from the Homestead Act, and cheap land being sold by the railroads?
This was a cowboy's worst fear on the long drive.
What is a stampede?
This is the word that means a large group moving simultaneously in the same direction.
What is swarm?
Many insects damage crops, but farmers on the plains feared these insects above all.
What are grasshoppers?
Ranchers penning their cattle instead of having them in an open range, ranchers moving north to be closer to the railroads, and farmers moving in and taking up land throughout the south are all reasons for the end of this.
What is the great age of the cowboy?
These are the people credited with much of the building of the transcontinental railroad.
Who were immigrants?
These were the two notorious outlaws we read about in this unit.
Who were Jesse James and Billy the Kid?
This is the word that none of you are allowed to forget because the definition is literally in the word.
What is transcontinental?
This is what we call the act of obtaining items now but actually paying for them at a later date.
What is credit?
This American journalist and politician is credited with the quote, "Go west, young man, and grow up with the country"?
Who was Horace Greeley?
These are the three main developments that enabled settlers to farm on the plains.
What are steel plows, barbed wire, and dry farming?
This is the phrase that means livestock are roaming freely, unpenned.
What is open range?
This is the word for a symbol that is used as a mark of ownership.
What is a brand?
This is the phrase that means a statement of ownership over a piece of land.
What is "stake a claim"?
It wasn't the gold miners who struck it richest on the frontier, but these people.
Who were the mining companies?
This event was known to some as Seward's Folly.
What is the purchase of Alaska?
Cattle ranchers in Texas drove their livestock north to this place in order to be closer to the railroads so they could ship their cattle.
What is Abilene, Kansas?
This is the word that means cattle and sheep munching on the terrain in a field or prairie.
What is graze?
Because there were no police forces on the frontier, this is how conflicts were handled.
What is vigilante justice?
This is the way a population is measured every 10 years.
What is a census?
These groups of people received free land thanks to the Homestead Act of 1862.
What are US citizens and immigrants?
This is what we call the frontier home and all the land surrounding it.
What is a homestead?
This is what we call a rock or stone that precious metal can be collected from.
What is ore?
As you all already know, this is what we call a formal agreement between two or more entities, often countries.
What is a treaty?
This was the main reason settlers got creative and built homes out of sod bricks?
What is a lack of trees on the plains?