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Go West, my boy
Native Americans
Mining
Ranching
Farming
100
Act passed in 1862, by Pres. Lincoln whereby people could get their own 160 acres.
What is the Homestead Act?
100
People who travel from place to place.
What are nomads?
100
1859 stampede to find gold on this mountain.
What is Pikes Peak?
100
Type of cattle found in Texas.
What is Longhorn?
100
Primitive prairie house.
What is a soddie or sod house?
200
The granting of land to the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads in 1862 and 1864.
What is the Pacific Railroad Acts?
200
Colonel John Chivington's slaughter of 700 indians.
What is Sand Creek Massacre?
200
Largest deposit of silver ever found.
What is Comstock Lode?
200
The removal of the buffalo and Indians made conditions just right for this activity.
What is cattle ranching?
200
The youngest age of a qualified homesteader.
What is 21years old?
300
The year the frontier officially closed
What is 1890?
300
The last major win for the Indians in the Indian Wars.
What is Battle of Little Bighorn?
300
Name of a location after the population moves on to the next promise to make it rich.
What is a ghost town or bust town?
300
the decade that refrigerated rail cars were first used in the west
What is 1870's?
300
Wrote a book about the closing of the west.
What is Frederick Jackson Turner?
400
The year that the transcontinental railroad was completed.
What is the 1869?
400
A book written about the injustices done to Native Americans.
What is a Century of Dishonor?
400
The name of the location of the first discovery of gold in the west.
What is Sutter's Mill?
400
2 million cattle made this trek on the long drive.
What is Chisholm Trail?
400
an economic condition that made the farmers life miserable
What is deflation?
500
The location of the joining of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific rail lines.
What is Promontory Point?
500
Key Indian chief that drags out the Indian wars because he avoided capture.
What is Geronimo?
500
A technique used to separate gold from dirt.
What is panning or placer mining?
500
This effectively ended the life of the cowboy.
What is barbed wire?
500
people who wanted the unlimited coining of silver.
What is silverites?