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Bonus
Geography
100
A Union Pacific locomotive traveling west and a Central Pacific locomotive traveling east met at ________ making America's first transcontinental railroad.
Promontory Summit, Utah
100
What was the name for the central prairie area of land in the United States?
The Great Plains
100
Appalachian Mountains
E
200
"Custer's Last Stand" is also known as ___________.
Battle of Little Bighorn
200
What piece of technology was invented by Samuel Morse?
The telegraph
200
Great Basin Desert
B
300
The ________ was a law that made Native Americans citizens of the United States.
Indian Citizenship Act
300
What type of mail delivery used a relay system of horses and riders?
Pony Express
300
Rocky Mountains
A
400
The ________ made large areas of land available to Native Americans.
Indian Reorganization Act
400
What stagecoach company delivered miners' gold to banks and carried mail to passengers?
Wells Fargo
500
The _________ was an incident in which 200 people from the Lakota tribe were killed by the United States Army.
Wounded Knee Massacre
500
What do we call large sections of land set aside by the United States government for Native American tribes?
Indian Reservations
600
Texas cattlemen drove their herds to the cow town of Abilene, Kansas, on the ___________.
Chisholm Trail
600
What do we call large fights between Western farmers and ranchers over grazing and water rights?
Range Wars
700
Every cow town had a ___________.
Reservation
700
What do we call the rush to claim pieces of the Unassigned Lands in the Oklahoma Territory?
Oklahoma Land Rush
700
What mountain range is east of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers?
Appalachian Mountains