Show:
Frontiers
Who am I?
Technology
Wild West
Vocabulary
100
These animal herders were enemies?
Cattle vs. Sheep Bonus: what caused this feud?
100
who said, " Pike's Peak or bust"?
gold miner
100
What kind of house was made on the Great Plains?
Sod Houses Bonus: list a positive and negative to having a sod house
100
Who were two famous outlaws?
Jesse James and Billy the Kid
100
List 4 types of precipitation.
Rain, sleet, snow, hail
200
The homestead act gave what to whom?
160 acres of free land to U.S citizens and immigrants for 5 years free.
200
The dry weather on the Great Plains caused me and my family to give up our new life and go back east?
Farmer on the plains Bonus: what is the main difference between the Interior Lowlands and the Great Plains?
200
Farmers on the Great Plains created three ways to make farming the Great Plains easier. What are they and how did they help?
Barbed wire ( no logs for fencing) Steel Plow ( didn't break easily and could break the hard dry soil) Dry Farming ( trenches for water to be caught and turned so the roots of crops could absorb it)
200
Compare a real cowboy to our learned perception of cowboys?
Possible Answers: young teenagers vs old men; native america, african american, and Mexican vs white; no guns vs gunslinger; boring same routine all the time vs saving people and damsels in distress
200
What is an immigrant?
A person who moves from a country to live in another one.
300
Why were ranchers sending their cattle to Sedalia, MO?
To get 30-40$ per head and the trains were in Sedalia. Bonus: What was a problem with using this first route to Sedalia?
300
"one...two...three...done." I missed the golden spike in Promontory Point, UT.
Leland Stanford
300
These were a farmers worst nightmare.
Grasshoppers
300
How did people get the exaggerated perception of the cowboy?
Newspaper articles, dime novels, traveling shows
300
Define transcontinental
going from one coast to the other
400
What caused the end of hte cowboy frontier?
Ranchers decided to move their cattle north and fence in their farms.
400
This man made a shady purchase with Russia?
William Seward Bonus: What did he buy and why was this good for the United States?
400
This was pounded into the ground in Promontory Point, UT.
Golden Spike bonus: share why this was such a memorable experience for everyone in attendance.
400
What do we call the homesteading of Oklahoma?
Oklahoma Land Rush Bonus: how long did it take to have the whole state homestead
400
These popped up all over the mining frontier where many miners lived?
boomtowns bonus: when all the miner deserted their boomtown, what did they become?
500
This was created to "peace" in boomtowns?
"vigilante justice" or the "frontier justice"
500
" Go west young man, and grow with the country."
Horace Greeley Bonus: what were his initial feelings about moving west? when did this change?
500
The Transcontinental Railroad ran from ______ to _______. (Please name city and the state)
Omaha, NE to Sacramento, CA
500
Why is Oklahoma the last state to be settled?
Native Americans were given this land by the U.S government then told they needed to sell it back for them to use.
500
This government poll tells us how many people live in a city, state, country?
A census