Railroads
The railroad that connected the East to the West.
What was the Transcontinental Railroad?
Someone who searches for gold, silver, minerals, etc.
Who is a prospector or miner?
What animal was the center of conflict between the Native Americans and white settlers.
Buffalo
What were the homes of the Great Plain states made of?
Sod and dirt
What was the land that the government created to relocate Native Americans?
Reservations
Moral lessons and legends were communicated through what?
Music. Western songs and ballads
Who were the immigrants who built the railroads?
The Chinese
What made it possible for people to more easily travel out west?
The railroads
What created conflict between farmers and ranchers when ranchers would take their cattle to the Railroads.
The long drive
What technology helped pump water from deep underground for farming.
The windmill
Native Americans were nomadic tribes. Define the term "nomadic."
A lifestyle of moving from place to place, not remaining stationary.
"Buffalo Bill" was a performer in what form of entertainment in the frontier.
Wild West Shows
What device increased the safety of the railroads?
The air brake
Who raised large amounts of cattle and shipped them north?
Cowboys
This group of railroad workers experienced severe discrimination as they settled on the Great Plains.
Who were the Chinese?
What Act passed in 1862 gave settlers 160 acres of land as long as they lived on it for 5 years and made the land viable.
The Homestead Act
The Native Americans were dependent on what two animals?
Horses and buffalo
The railroads created a greater need for time awareness which resulted in the development of what?
Time zones
George Pullman created this to make railroad travel more comfortable
What was the sleeping car?
What popped up seemingly overnight as people moved west in search of gold?
Mining towns
Who was the Apache chief captured in 1886. He later joined the Dutch Reformed Church and rode in Teddy Roosevelt's inaugural parade?
Geronimo
What was the staple food of prairie families on the Great Plains, often eaten three times a day?
Corn
This law attempted to Americanize the Native Americans.
What was the Dawes Act?
Stories of life and heroes of the Wild West were published in what form of literature in the late 19th century?
Dime novels
What was hammered into the final connecting rails of the transcontinental railroad?
A golden spike
What were abandoned mining towns called?
Ghost towns?
Who was the famous lawman who had a shootout with outlaws at he OK Corral in Tombstone Arizona?
Wyatt Earp (and Doc Holliday)
What invention was an effective substitute for wooden fencing?
Barbed wire
Who was the Union officer killed at the Battle of Little Bighorn?
George Armstrong Custer.
Who was the legendary giant lumberjack who had a blue ox named Babe.
Paul Bunyan