Abraham Lincoln signed this law in 1862 to encourage people to settle the western frontier. It promised 160 acres of land for only $10!
What is the Homestead Act?
100
Before the Transcontinental Railroad, people had to travel in a _________ to get from Missouri to California.
What is a stagecoach?
100
This was how cowboys transported cattle from Texas to the trains by this method.
What is a cattle drive?
100
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What is "Sodbuster"?
100
The completion of the Transcontinental Railroad allowed people and goods to travel from coast to coast in as little as a _______.
What is a week?
200
This was the MAIN purpose of the Homestead Act.
What is to settle the Great Plains?
200
This company could deliver mail from Missouri to California in just 10 days.
What is the Pony Express?
200
This is why cattle drives profitable for Texas ranchers.
What is because cattle could be sold for more money in the East?! A cow was worth only $4 in Texas because there were so many of them. A cow was worth a whopping $40 in the East because there were not as many cows and the demand for them was high.
200
How did westward expansion affect Native Americans?
What is they were pushed further and further west and onto reservations?
200
This railroad company starting building in California and laid track east toward Missouri. They faced the challenge of building through the rugged Sierra Nevada mountains.
What is the Central Pacific?
300
These were challenges faced by many homesteaders.
What are harsh weather, thick sod to bust through, and swarms of grasshoppers?
300
This innovation used electricity to send news across the country.
What is the telegraph?
300
These were the main western cattle trails.
What are the Goodnight-Lovin' trail, Chisolm trail, Western trail, and Shawnee Trail?
300
These are ways that Native Americans are keeping traditions alive today.
What is gaining control of more land, passing down tribal languages to their children, and sharing tribal stories?
300
80% of the Central Pacific's workforce was made up of these immigrants.
What are Chinese immigrants?
400
Why did "exodusters" come to the Great Plains?
What is to escape discrimination in the South? Remember, exodusters were a group of African Americans who built a community in the Great Plains.
400
This innovation allowed people and goods to travel across the country in just a week!
What is the transcontinental railroad?
400
This is the reason cattle drives came to an end.
What is railroads expanded to Texas, making it unnecessary for cows to be herded to Kansas to hop on a train to go East?
400
Native Americans opposed the building of the transcontinental railroad because...
What is the railroad/trains scared away the buffalo herds, which the Native American's hunted.
400
This railroad company starting building west from Missouri. The workers often faced conflicts with Native Americans.
What is the Union Pacific?
500
The Gold Rush had many lasting effects on America. One of those effects is the establishment of what are now important American cities. Two of those cities are _________ and ____________.
What is San Francisco, CA and Denver, CO?
500
This innovation made the Pony Express obsolete.
What is the telegraph?
500
He was a famous cowboy who was a former slave.
Who is Nat Love?
500
General Custer fought the Lakota tribe in the Battle of Little Bighorn. Why is this battle known as "Custer's Last Stand?"
What is because Custer was killed along with his entire forces?
500
The two companies finally met in this town in Utah in 1869.