Vocabulary
new business that began delivering mail
What Pony Express?
People preferred this to the Pony Express because it was faster.
What is telegraph ?
Lakota Chief
Who is Sitting Bull?
Georgia is in this time zone
What is Eastern?
Central Pacific workers faced this problem while building the railroad
What is they had to blast tunnels through the mountains?
What was built so East and West would be linked
What is transcontinental railroad?
the promise of this attracted European settlers.
What is land?
An area of land set aside for Native Americans
What is reservation?
if it is 5 pm in Georgia what time is it in California?
What is 2 pm?
Union Pacific workers faced this problem while working on the railroad
What is conflict with Native Americans.
US government passed this so people would be encouraged to move to the Great Plains in 1862.
What is Homestead Act?
What is extreme weather?
The Great Lakota Reservation where gold was found.
What is Black Hills?
Texas is in this time zone
What is Central?
This describes why cattle drives began?
what is ranchers wanted to get their cattle to the east?
Great Plains farmers became known as
What is Sodbusters?
This describes how farmers and ranchers changed the Great Plains?
What is they fenced in the land?
This American soldier led an attack against Lakota tribe in June 1876
WhO is George Custer?
if it's 9 am in Mountain time zone what time is it in GA?
What is 11am
This brought an end to cattle drives.
What is railroad expansion to Texas?
African Americans who were making a journey to freedom?
Who is exodusters?
This was invented to help cut through the prairie sod
What is steel plow?
Sitting Bull and other Lakota tribe members fought against American soldiers at this battle
What is Battle of Little Bighorn?
You are catching a flight from GA at 2 pm. It is a 2 hour flight to Chicago. What time will it be in Chicago when you land?
What is 3pm?
This describes what happened to both the Lakota and the Nez Perce during the 1870's?
What is they were both forced to leave their homeland?