People
Who is George Custer?
This event featured both Sooners and Boomers in an effort to claim land.
What is the Oklahoma Land Rush?
This was the person in charge of a cattle drive.
What is a trial boss?
Workers faced different landforms when building this.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
These devices made symbols used to identify cattle.
What are brands?
This was the Sioux chief that fought at the Battle of Little Bighorn
Who is Crazy Horse?
This act was designed to force Native Indians to live more like white people.
What is the Dawes Act?
This was the Nez Perce leader who spoke with President Hayes about his people.
This word means crossing a continent.
What is transcontinental?
This is a rich source of precious metal.
What is a lode?
This was the name of the trader that the most popular cattle trail was named after.
Who is Jesse Chisholm?
What is a reservation?
These people raced to claim land in Oklahoma after the cannons were shot.
What are Boomers?
This was the name of the railroad company that set out from Sacramento.
What is the Central Pacific Railroad Company?
This is the name of the open land in the West that hadn't been settled.
What is frontier?
He was one of the first marshals of Abilene.
Who is Tom Smith?
Towns that grew quickly during the gold rush were called this.
What is boomtown?
This was the name of prairie farmers who raised crops and livestock.
What are sodbusters?
This is the railroad company that set out from Omaha, Nebraska.
What is the Union Pacific Railroad Company?
This means to move a herd of cattle.
What is a cattle drive?
He was one of the missionaries to the West.
Who is Ezra Fisher?
Farmers settling in the West found that these were a great help.
What are inventions?
This person signed the Homestead Act allowing settlers to own 160 acres of land if they built a house, lived on the land, and improved it over a span of 5 years.
Who is Abraham Lincoln.
This was the location where the two railroad companies joined their tracks together with a golden spike.
What is Promontory Summit, Utah?
A sudden rush of scared animals that ran away from the trail was this.
What is a stampede?