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What did Spanish settlers bring to America?
LONGHORN
What is the name of a town that grew quickly?
BOOMTOWN
TRUE OR FALSE?
Did farmers find that inventions were a great invention?
TRUE
Where were cattle driven to by train?
COW TOWNS
What inventions were a great help to farmers?
STEEL PLOW
REAPER
WINDMILL
What is the name for a moving a herd of cattle?
CATTLE DRIVE
What is the name of an open land in the West that had not been settled?
FRONTIER
This act allowed the settlers to own 160 acres if they built a house, lived on the land, and improved the land over a period of 5 years?
HOMESTEAD ACT
What did the workers have to face when building the transcontinental railroad?
LANDFORM
What is the name of the area of land set aside by the US government for Native Americans?
RESERVATION
What was the name of the act in which the government tried to make Indians live more like white people?
DAWES ACT
SODBUSTER
What is the term used to define "crossing a continent"?
TRANSCONTINENTAL
What is the name for a rich source of precious metal?
LODE
What is a sudden rush of scared animals that run away from the trail?
Who was the trader that the most popular cattle was named after?
JESSE CHISHOLM
Who was the colonel who led US forces at the Battle of the Little Bighorn?
GEORGE CUSTER
Who was the Sioux chief who fought at the Battle of the Little Bighorn
CRAZY HORSE
Who was one of the first marshals of Abilene?
TOM SMITH
Who was one of the missionaries to the West?
EZRA FISHER
Who was the Nez Perce leader who traveled to Washington, DC, and spoke with President Hayes about his people?
CHIEF JOSEPH
The event when the "sooners" slipped across the borders and claimed land before they were allowed.
OKLAHOMA LAND RUSH
What symbols made it hard for thieves to steal cattle
What was the name of the person in charge of a cattle drive?
TRAIL BOSS
What was the name of the people who raced to claim land in Oklahoma by pushing stakes into the ground and setting up tents?
"Boomers"