Heading West
The name of people who headed west in covered wagons
One way that cowboys moved cows from their ranches to the production centers
What is a cattle drive?
The animal that was almost killed to extinction because of the railroads
What are buffalo?
The name of the Shawnee woman who helped William Clark and Meriwether Lewis map the Wild West
Who was Sacajawea?
The first people to live in the Western territories
Who are the Native Americans?
A place where the US government forced Native Americans to live because white people wanted their land
The reason the Western railroad had a harder time building and the eastern railroad had an easier time building across the land
What are mountains vs plains?
The name of the mail service that carried mail across the Wild West
What was the Pony Express?
The idea that white people were destined by God to own and take over the entire continent, and led to the death and mistreatment of millions of Native Americans.
What is Manifest Destiny?
The amount of time it took to ride the train from the east to the west
What took only 7 days/ 1 week?
A law allowing people to claim land if they paid a fee, built a house, and lived on the Land for 5 years
A place where cowboys stopped the cattle drive
Where was the railroad depot?
The state where the two transcontinental railroads met
Where is Utah? (Promontory Point, Utah!)
The name of the dirt houses Pioneers built
What are Soddies?
The US government put the Lakota nation on a reservation in the Black Hills of South Dakota. When gold was found there, the US tried to take it back, and the Lakota refused. The resulting fight is called this:
What was the Battle of Little Bighorn?
The railroad companies who competed to build across the nation