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These traveled up and down the Red and Missouri Rivers carrying people and goods.
What are steamboats?
100
This major river used by boats flows through Bismarck.
What is the Missouri River?
100
These people were part French and part Indian.
Who are the Metis?
100
Red River carts were used to carry pelts, which is another name for this.
What are furs?
100
This river used by boats in the 1800s, flows through Grand Forks and Fargo.
What is the Red River?
200
This railroad traveled west through Fargo, Bismarck and Dickinson.
What is the Northern Pacific Railroad?
200
These were barges that used the river current for power.
What are flatboats?
200
Some Red River cart trails traveled north of Dakota Territory into this country.
What is Canada?
200
This railroad traveled west through Grand Forks, Minot and Williston.
What is the Great Northern Railway?
200
This railroad traveled northwest through Fessenden, Harvey and Minot.
What is the Soo Line?
300
Occasionally, steamboats would get stuck on these, below the surface of rivers.
What are sand bars?
300
This was the person who charted the course of the boat.
Who is the pilot?
300
This vehicle had the advantage of going almost anywhere you wanted and traveling faster.
What is the stagecoach?
300
This means to go all the way across the nation.
What is transcontinental?
300
These were sold by Jay Cooke to raise money for the railroads, which promised to pay the purchasers back with interest.
What are bonds?
400
These were railroad tracks that veered off the main lines.
What are branch lines?
400
Many train lines that went through North Dakota started or traveled through these two major cities in Minnesota.
What are Minneapolis and St. Paul?
400
When several Red River Carts traveled together, it was called this.
What is a cart train?
400
This animal usually pulled a Red River Cart.
What is an ox?
400
This is the year the transcontinental railroad was completed.
What is 1869?
500
He was the first trader to send goods to St. Paul on Red River carts.
Who is "Jolly" Joe Rolette?
500
This is the year the Northern Pacific Railroad began constructing a railroad along the northern route.
What is 1864?
500
When Jay Cooke and Company went bankrupt in 1873, it caused this.
What is the Panic of 1873?
500
He created the Great Northern Railway.
Who is James Hill?
500
This state is where the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads met to create the transcontinental railroad.
What is Utah?