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