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TranscontinentalRailroad

Cowboys &Miners

A Great Plains farmer

What is a sodbuster?

An African American pioneer

What is an exoduster?

A law that offered free land to American citizens and

immigrants who were willing to start new farms on the

Great Plains

What was the Homestead Act?

A new settler

Who is a pioneer?

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A business that delivered mail from Missouri to California in just ten days

What is the Pony Express?

An area of land set aside for Native Americans

What is a reservation?

A chief of the Nez Perce’ who led his people on a 1,600 mile chase

to avoid being placed on a reservation

Who is Chief Joseph?

Gaining control of more land, maintaining tribal languages,

and sharing tribal stories

How are Native Americans keeping traditions alive

today?

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A battle in which Crazy Horse helped lead the Lakota to victory against the

United States forces.

What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?

The last major battle between the United States and Native Americans

What is the Battle of Wounded Knee?

A person who starts a new business hoping to make a profit

Who is an entrepreneur?

The use of new ideas to make tools that improve people’s lives

What is technology?

An invention that sent messages along wires using electricity

What is a telegraph?

Founded a company to manufacture denim

jeans

Who is Levi Strauss?

Three examples of technology used to help pioneers turn the Great Plains

into productive farmland

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What are barbed wire, the steel plow, windmills, or dry farming?

An innovation that allowed people and goods to travel across the country in

just a week

What is the transcontinental railroad?

This group made up the largest part of the Central Pacific’s workforce

Who are Chinese immigrants?

A major challenge faced by theCentral Pacific railroad

What were the Sierra Nevadamountains?

The Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads met here

What is Promontory Point, Utah?

A major challenge faced by the Union Pacific railroad other than

lack of a workforce

What were conflicts with Native Americans?

A period when thousands of people went to search for gold

What was the gold rush?

These were no longer necessary once railroads reached Texas

What are cattle drives?

People paid ten times more for thisin the east than in Texas

What is beef or cattle?

Lured many settlers to the West

What is searching for gold?

An American city near the middle ofthe country that became the nation’s leading supplier of fresh meat

What is Chicago?