Westward Expansion, Part 2
This was an individual seeking gold, usually through panning...
Who was a prospector
These were the two railroads that competed to build the Transcontinental Railroad from different ends of the country...
What were the Union Pacific and Central Pacific
These three groups settled the West...
Who were whites, African Americans and immigrants
This invention led to a decline in the need for cowboys more than anything else...
What was barbed wire
This was the philosophy that it was a God-given right to expand the U.S. across the continent...
What is Manifest Destiny
These were the most successful at finding gold...
What were mining companies (who could get to the vein)
Congress officially chartered both railroad companies to begin building the Transcontinental Railroad in this year...
What is 1862
These were towns built at the end of cattle drives, where livestock was sold off...
What were cattle towns
This was a famous lawman in the West, who fought outlaw cowboys at the "gunfight at the O.K. Corral"...
Who was Wyatt Earp
This was meant to break up tribal lands and assimilate natives by promising 160 acres per family plus citizenship...
What was the Dawes Act
Who are Mexicans
By the end of the Civil War, railroads only went as far west as this...
What is the Missouri River
These were mud houses built on the plains, where trees were harder to find...
What were sod houses
This railroad hired over 10,000 Chinese workers...
What was the Central Pacific
This is how the Cherokee resisted the order to move to Oklahoma...
What is they took it to the Supreme Court
This was a name for someone who made a fortune off ranching...
What was a Cattle Baron
What are time zones
These were groups of citizens who formed to handle law enforcement on their own...
What were vigilante committees
This is another name for a ghost town...
What is a bust town
This man was sent by Jefferson to negotiate buying French territory from Napoleon...
Who was James Monroe
This was a large company farm that usually specialized in growing one crop for profit...
What is a bonanza farm
This is the place and year that the two railroad companies met, which completed the Transcontinental Railroad...
What is Promontory Point, Utah. What is 1869.
This provided 160 acres of land for free to white settlers who would stay on it for 5 years...
What was the Homestead Act (1862)
This was leader of the Baldknobbers
Who was Nat Kinney
This was a massacre of Sioux and this was how many natives died...
What was the Wounded Knee Massacre. What was 300.