A Growing Nation
The guide who was the first to lead settlers beyond the Appalachians cut a road west?
Who is Daniel Boone.
The name given to the 1859 gold and silver discovery in western Nevada?
What is the Comstock Lode.
The first major agreement was signed with the Northern Plains Nations?
What is the Treaty of Fort Laramie.
The 1862 act that gave government-owned land to farmers?
What is the Homestead Act.
The former army captain chosen by President Thomas Jefferson to lead an expedition to explore the West?
Who is Merriwether Lewis.
The movement of cattle herds to market or new grazing land?
What is the Cattle Drive.
The Sioux leader who violently protested reservations?
Who is Crazy Horse.
The African Americans who left the South for Kansas in 1879?
Who are the Exodusters.
The long journey to explore the Louisiana Purchase?
What is the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
The mail delivery system in which messengers transported mail on horseback across the country?
What is the Pony Express.
The nickname given by indians to the African American cavalry.
What are Buffalo Soldiers.
The farming method using hardy crops that need less water than others?
What is Dry Farming.
The explorer of the West who reached the summit of the mountain now known as Pike's Peak?
Who is Zebulon Pike.
The system developed by railroad companies divided the United States into four time zones?
What is the Standard Time.
The army commander who lost to the Sioux at the Little Bighorn?
Who is George Armstrong Custard.
The decrease in the money supply and overall lower prices?
What is Deflation.
The fur traders and trappers who traveled to the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Northwest in the early 1800s?
Who are the Mountain Men.
The animal that quickly spread throughout Texas?
What are Longhorn Cattle.
The battle in which U.S. troops killed about 150 Sioux?
What is the Massacre at Wounded Knee.
The Democratic candidate for president in the 1888 election?
Who is William Jennings Bryan.
Considered the closing of the western frontier
What is the disappearance of the "line" and the beginning of the modern U.S.