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Railroads
Mining
Ranching/Cowboys
Farming
Native Americans
Miscellaneous
100

A railroad that goes coast to coast.

What is transcontinental?

100

Someone who searches for resources/minerals.

What is a prospector?

100

Place where cattle are taken and loaded on railroads to be taken back east. 

What is a cowtown?

100

Houses were made of this.

What was sod?

100

Land set aside for Native American tribes.

What is a reservation?

100

Apache leader who led violent raids against white settlers.

Who was Geronimo?

200

The company who built the transcontinental railroad WEST starting in Omaha, NB.

What was the Union Pacific?

200

A large vein of mineral underground.

What is a LODE?

200
How cowboys identified their cattle.

What is branding?

200

People who participated and followed the rules of the Oklahoma land rush.

Who were boomers?

200
Leader of the Nez Perce.  Led his people on a journey to escape to Canada.  They did not make it.

Who was Chief Joseph?

200

Tough breed of cattle.

What are longhorns?

300

The name of the company that built the transcontinental railroad EAST starting in Sacremento, CA.

What was the Central Pacific?

300

Rich vein of silver found in Nevada.

What was the Comstock Lode?

300

Journey through the vasts grazing land to trains.

What is the Long Drive?

300

Homestead Act gave people this many acres of land as long as they farmed it for 5 years.

What is 160?

300

The last significant conflict between troops and the Sioux nation.  It started with an accidental shot fired.

What was Wounded Knee?

300

Boomtowns turned into this.

What are ghost towns?

400
Two benefits of the Transcontinental railroad.
PICK TWO: What is unite the country? What is brought people out to settle the land?  What is brought goods/raw materials back east to markets.
400

A person who takes the law into their own hands.

What is a vigilante?

400

Cattle Kingdom ends because there were too many cattle.

What was falling beef price?

400

Nickname for African-Americans who settled on the Great Plains.

What is Exodusters?

400
Law that attempted to turn nomadic Native Americans into farmers.

What was the Dawes Act?

400

Chief of Lakota Sioux and led tribe at Little Bighorn.

Who was Sitting Bull?

500

The transcontinental railroad was completed where AND when, specifically?  

Promontory Summit, UTAH on May 10, 1869.

500

They had the resources, workers and equipment to dig to the underground lode.

What are mining companies?

500

Hispanic cowhands who taught Americans how to be cowboys.

What are Vaqueros?

500

The invention cowboys hated.

What was barbed wire?

500

Custer's land stand.

What was Little Bighorn?

500

Cattle thief.

What is a rustler?