| Chugga-Chugga Choo Choo! | Home on the Range | Drivin' the Longhorns | Plains Indians | Miscellaneous |
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100What is Promontory Point, Utah?
The location where the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad was celebrated.
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100What are "sodbusters"?
The nickname given to people who dug up dirt for houses.
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100What is supply?
The _______ of cattle in Texas was high causing lower prices.
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100What is a reservation?
The land that the government has set aside for American Indians.
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100How much is $5?
Longhorn cattle were sold for this much money in Texas.
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200What are The Union Pacific and the Central Pacific?
These are the railroad companies that built the Transcontinental RR.
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200What is the Homestead Act of 1862?
This Act encouraged people to move West.
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200What is a railhead?
A town where a railroad begins or ends.
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200Who are the Lakota and Cheyenne?
These two tribes fought against the Colorado militia in the Sand Creek Massacre.
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200What is the Ghost Dance?
The Indian religion that taught that the buffalo would return and dead Indians would come back to life.
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300Who are Chinese and Irish immigrants?
These were the workers on the Transcontinental RR.
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300What is the steel plow?
This tool was invented by John Deere.
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300What is two to three months?
The average length of time for a cattle drive.
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300Who is George Custer?
This lieutenant colonel led his soldiers to fight the Indians in the Black Hills in the Battle of Little Bighorn.
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300What is trees were scarce in the Great Plains?
For this reason barbed wire was invented.
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400What is the Pacific Railway Act of 1862?
The act signed by Abraham Lincoln giving railroad companies funding for the Transcontinental RR.
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400What is plentiful and cheap land?
The reason for easterners and Europeans moving westward.
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400Who is Jesse Chisholm?
This man drove his cattle to Abilene, Kansas and made a map of his route. His route later became a trail named after him.
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400What is assimilate?
To change a group's culture and traditions so that it blends with a larger group.
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400Who is Samuel Morse?
He created the code used to send telegraph messages.
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500How many is about 2,000 miles?
The number of miles of track built for the Transcontinental Railroad.
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500Who is Joseph Glidden?
He is the creator of barbed wire.
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500What are Goodnight-Loving, Western, Chisholm, or Sedalia?
Name two of the four cattle drive trails.
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500What is Dawes Act?
This law took reservation land away from Indian nations and split it into smaller pieces.
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500How much is 1/4 square miles?
The settlers were given this much land, in square miles, in the Homestead Act.
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