The number of acres of land a Homesteader got if they moved west.
What is 160?
100
Name of one of the three major Indian tribes we talked about in class.
Who are the Cheyenne, Navajo, or Apache?
100
Name of the system that used a series of horses to carry the mail.
What is the Pony Express?
100
Name of the person who came up with the term Manifest Destiny.
Who is John O'Sullivan?
100
Another name for an outlaw.
What is a gunslinger or gunfighter?
200
A chore the pioneer children did to help out their families.
What is gathering water, feeding the animals, taking care of siblings, making own clothing, etc.
200
Settlers took this from the Native Americans because they felt it was their right to have it.
What is land?
200
The date the Pony Express formed.
What is April 3, 1860?
200
Manifest Destiny led to a push in the number of homesteaders trying to make a living from the land. How long were these homesteaders required to live on their land in order to keep it?
What is 5 years?
200
What is considered the "banner year" for outlaws? Meaning what is the year in which many outlaws were caught or killed. 1872, 1881 or 1893?
What is 1881?
300
One material they would have used to build their houses in the desert where they wouldn't have had wood.
What is sod?
300
The name of the term settlers used to justify their desire to take Native American land.
What is Manifest Destiny?
300
These years were the peak of the railroad boom in the West.
What is 1870-1880?
300
A location an outlaw was likely to hold up for money or other valuables.
What is a stagecoach or train?
300
This group of people needed lawmen the most from about 1860 to the early 1900's. They were in strange places with limited access to laws and regulations to keep them and their families safe.
Who were settlers moving West?
400
The landmark or line often named as the seperator between the West and the East.
What is the Mississippi River?
400
The difference between the fighting/war styles of the Native Americans and White Settlers.
(Hint-Spider Web Worksheet)
What is army versus warriors.
400
Number of Months the Pony Express lasted.
What is 19?
400
Manifest Destiny, coined in 1846, supported the idea of Indian Removal. Name the president who started the removal of Native Americans in 1829.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
400
DAILY DOUBLE!
Name the Outlaw pair who ended the era of the outlaws in one last series of train and stagecoach robberies before fleeing to South America in 1901.
Who are Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?
500
DAILY DOUBLE
Name the fuel source homesteaders used when they did not have wood available.
What are buffalo chips?
500
In the map we filled out, one group was in more than one location because their tribe settled in several different areas. Name this group of Native Americans.
Who were the Apache Indians?
500
The year in which the railroad system finished a complete line from Newbraska to California, making travel easier for settlers to move westward.
What is 1869?
500
According to Manifest Destiny, settlers had the right to take land. Under this idea, who gave them this right?
Who is a Divine Power or God?
500
In 1882, this outlaw (famous for Quantrill’s Raiders during the Civil War) was shot in the back by Robert Ford, a kinsman who hoped to collect the $5,000 reward. His death ended the career of an outlaw gang that terrorized the Wild West for more than a decade.