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Christopher Columbus, the American Revolution, the Civil War, and the 13th Amendment all happened before the completion of...
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
Myth or reality? Western cow towns were wild places where cowboys had gunfights, and there was little law and order.
What is myth?
federal lands set aside for Native Americans
What are reservations?
The "Walmart" of American Indians was the...
What is the bison/buffalo?
The invention that led to an end of the Open Range in the late-1800s was...
What is barbed wire?
The Union Pacific & Central Pacific portions of the Transcontinental Railroad met at...
What is Promontory Point, UT?
About 25% of cowboys in the West were...
What is African American/Black?
increasing the nation beyond its existing borders
expansion
The most significant (important) cause of the destruction of the Plains Indians' culture and way of life was...
What was the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad?
Which of the following DID NOT bring Americans to the "Great American Desert" during the LATE 1800s?
The Gold Rush
The Transcontinental Railroad
Homestead Act
What is the Gold Rush?
In 1869, the transcontinental railroad was completed by the Central Pacific & Union Pacific railroad companies. What is missing from the historical picture celebrating the event?
What are the immigrant workers (Chinese & Irish) who did so much to build the Transcontinental Railroad?
Another name for the Great Plains, where many ranchers raised cattle, was the...
What is the Cattle Kingdom?
Moberly is considered to be one of these.
What is a boomtown?
This forced Native Americans of the southern Great Plains to move to reservations.
What is the Treaty of Medicine Lodge?
To encourage Americans to move West, the government gave American citizens free land in the Great Plains. This was part of a law passed by Congress called...
What was the Homestead Act?
1. Trade within the United States increased.
2. Settlement in the West increased.
3. The railroad industry became one of the most important businesses in America.
4. Native Americans in the Great Plains lost large areas of land to American settlers.
What are results of the Transcontinental Railroad?
The cattle industry grew rapidly following the Civil War. After the war, the nation's growing population created greater demand for beef in the East. Cattle worth $3-$6 each in Texas could be sold for $38 each in Kansas. In New York they could be sold for $80 each. When supply is low, and the demand is high... a good is very...
What is expensive?
nickname given to Great Plains farmers because they were the first to break through the thick soil of the plains
sodbusters
In 1890, while following orders to arrest Sioux leader Sitting Bull, Standing Rock Reservation police shot and killed him. Because of this, many Sioux left the reservations in protest. What event followed shortly after?
What is the Massacre at Wounded Knee?
1. Free land was given away as part of the Homestead Act.
2. There were discoveries of gold and silver in the West.
3. There was increased immigration from Germany, Ireland, and China.
4. There were opportunities created by the increased population in the West.
What are the causes for increase in settlement in the Western Frontier in the late 1800s?
1. They were willing to work for less money than the American workers.
2. It was easier to get workers to California from their home country that it was to get workers from the East.
3. They were able to do the hard work required by the company building the railroad.
Who were the Chinese workers?/ Why were Chinese primarily used as workers in the construction of the railroad headed East?
He was a famous lawman who also was a gambler and businessman.
Who is Wyatt Earp?
the departure of a large group of people
What is exodus?
Sitting Bull, a leader of the Lakota Sioux famously said, "What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one. What treaty that the white man ever made with us have they kept? Not one." What does quote mean?
He does not trust the Americans because they have broken their treaties over and over.
The huge deposit of gold and silver discovered in Nevada, that led Americans to pursue mining wealth in the west was called the...
What is the Comstock Lode?