Vocab
What is the name for the railroad across the United States, connecting the East to the West?
Bonus: Which state did it begin in +200pts
What is the Transcontinental Railroad
Bonus: Missouri +100pts
What are the name of the towns that serviced new mines and emptied when the mines closed?
Bonus: What state held the first boomtowns? +100pts
What are Boomtowns
Bonus: Nevada. = +100pts
Who was the Sioux leader who defeated Custer at Little Bighorn?
Who was another Sioux leader who aided him that you learned this module? = +200pts
Who was Sitting Bull
Bonus: Who was Crazy Horse = +200pts
Which economic activity brought the first Americans to the West?
Bonus: Who made the American Fur Company and created a permanent settlement in Oregon because of this business? What was the name of the town? +200pts
What is Fur Trading
Bonus: Who was John Jacob Astor = +100pts
Astorias, Oregon = +100pts
List the 4 time zones in the US that you were taught in lesson 2
Bonus: Which TZ would someone living in Eastern Texas live in = +200pts
Supa Bonus: Do you think you know the abbreviations for the 4 time zones? = +500pts
What are Eastern, Central, Mountain, & Pacific Standard Time.
Bonus: Someone in Eastern Texas would be in Central Standard Time = +200pts
Supa Bonus: Eastern = ET Central = CT Mountain = MT Pacific = PT = 500pts
Who are the large group African Americans who left the South for Kansas in 1879?
Bonus: Where did they get this name from? = +200pts
Who are Exodusters
Bonus: Exodus meaning a grand (large) exit of a group of people = +200pts
What are large areas of federal land set aside for Native Americans called?
Bonus: Which biome of Native Americans were removed during this module? = +200pts
What are Reservations
Bonus: Who are the Plains Native Americans = +200pts
Who was the Democratic leader & Populist Party candidate for president in the 1888 election?
Bonus: What staple did he create that many businesses follow today? = +200pts
Who was William Jennings Bryan
Bonus: 8 hour work days = +200pts
True or False:
The Homestead Act helped settle the Western lands by selling discounted land to ranchers.
Bonus: If it's incorrect; fix it = +100pts
What is False.
Bonus: The Homestead Act helped settle the Western lands by encouraging settlers to move west by offering free land. = +100pts
Name a Native American group that went to war in the West for their land
Who are:
Sioux
Comanche
Apache
Cheyenne
Arapaho
*Paiute*
What was the name of the 1862 act that gave government-owned land to citizens and farmers?
Bonus: What was a qualification for this act? = +100pts per qualification named
What is the Homestead Act
Bonus: Must be an American = +100pts
Must be in process of becoming an American = +100pts
Must live on land for 5 years = +100pts
What is the name given to 1859 gold and silver discovery in western Nevada?
Bonus: Who discovered this gold and silver? = +200pts
What is the Comstock Lode
Bonus: Who was Henry Comstock = +200pts
Who was the Paiute Native American against the govt’s treatment of Native Americans on Reservations?
Who was Sarah Winnemucca
True or False:
The Dawes General Allotment Act attempted to end traditional influences on Native American society by requiring Native Americans to become US citizens.
Bonus: If it's incorrect; fix it = +100pts
What is False.
Bonus: The Dawes General Allotment Act attempted to end traditional influences on Native American society by dividing reservation land into individually owned plots. = +100pts
Name presidents 1, 3, & 5.
Who are
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson &
James Monroe
What is the name of the system developed by railroad companies dividing the United States into four time zones?
Bonus: Where does the first time zone begin? = +200pts
What is Standard Time
Bonus: Greenwich, England = +200pts
What does it mean to give up traditional ways and adopt the ways of a different group?
Bonus: Who gave this advice to whom? = +200
What is to Assimilate
Bonus: The Americans advised Native Americans to assimilate = +200pts
Who was the Mormon leader who chose Utah as the group’s new home?
Where was this group originally from; Who was their previous leader; What happened to him; Why was this group so unfavored? = +400pts
Who was Bingham Young
Bonus: NY = +100pts
Joseph Smith = +100pts
He was killed/faced persecution = +100pts
They Practiced Polygamy = +100pts
True or False:
The population increasing greatly as people came hoping to get rich and large permanent cities being developed around the mining camps were two effects of mining in the West.
Bonus: If it's incorrect; fix it = +100pts
What is False.
Bonus: The population increasing greatly as people came hoping to get rich was the only effect of mining in the West = +100pts
Name presidents 2, 4, & 6.
Who are
John Adams
James Madison &
John Q. (Quincy) Adams
What was the name for the main route from the Mississippi River to the West Coast in the early 1800s?
What is the Oregon Trail
What is the name of the popular route for cattle drives from San Antonio to Abilene, Kansas?
Bonus: Who took this trail so much for cattle drives it was named after him? +300pts
What is the Chisholm Trail
Bonus: Who is Jesse Chisholm +300pts
Who was the Great Plains pioneer-reformer; who helped improve suffrage and temperance for women?
Who was Annie Bidell
Supa Bonus: My SS teachers daughter's name is ____________.
Zhuri
Name ALL presidents 1-9 BACKWARDS! Start with #9 and go, 8, 7, 6...
Bonus: Name a President from 1-9 who ONLY got the chance to serve 1 term (hint there are only 3 and 1 who died a month into office)= +500pts
Who are:
9: William Henry Harrison
8: Martin Van Buren
7: Andrew Jackson
6: John Q. Adams
5: James Monroe
4: James Madison
3: Thomas Jefferson
2: John Adams &
1: George Washington
Bonus: John Adams, John Q. Adams, Martin Van Buren, & William Henry Harrison = 1 TERM ONLY = 500pts a piece if named.