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100

This American icon only lasted 20 years, or till the end of the long drives

The Cowboy

100

This was the Native Americans primary food source

Buffalo

100

This act gave away millions of acres of land for free

The Homestead Act

100

What were lawless towns that popped up overnight around mining sites?

Boomtowns

100

How many time zones were created in the 1800s?

Four

200

Cowboys moved cattle thousands of miles to railroads on what?

Long Drives or Cattle Drives

200

Who won the Battle of Little Bighorn?

The Native Americans

200

This act abolished Native American Tribes

The Dawes Act

200

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Gold

200

How many acres were given to a person under the Homestead Act?

160 acres

300

This led to the rapid decline of buffalo on the plains

Overhunting

300

What did Wounded Knee mark?

The end of Native American resistance

300

What are three qualifications of the Homestead Act?

21 years old, live on land for 5 years, build a home

300

The construction of this connected the east coast to the west coast

The Transcontinental Railroad

300

How many companies worked on the transcontinental railroad?

Two - Central and Union Pacific

400

What was a Pioneer home built out of layers of prairie dirt?

Soddy or Soddie

400

What tribe was in both Little Bighorn and Wounded Knee?

Sioux Tribe

400

What is the process of forcing Native Americans to learn the American way of life?

Assimilation

400

This type of factor causes someone to move TOWARDS a new area

Pull Factor

400

When was Wounded Knee and the end of Native American resistance?

1890

500

When would farmers on the plains plant their crop?

Directly after a rain

500

Who was the leader of the Sioux Tribe?

Sitting Bull

500

This President passed the Homestead Act

Abraham Lincoln

500

Idea we are divinely ordained to move American culture west

Manifest Destiny

500

When did the Homestead Act pass?

1862