Jeopardy Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Cowboys Indians Moving West Oregon Trail Railroad Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Q $300 Q $300 Q $300 Q $300 Q $300 Q $400 Q $400 Q $400 Q $400 Q $400 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500 Final Jeopardy

$100 Question from Moving West The Appalachian Mountains

$100 Answer Moving West What natural barrier stood in the way of settlers who wanted to move west?

$200 Question from Moving West A pioneer who explored a path through the Appalachian Mountains.

$200 Answer from Moving West Who is Daniel Boone?

$300 Question from Moving West Walking, Traveling on flatboats, keelboats or canals.

$300 Answer from Moving West What were some ways people traveled westward?

$400 Question from Moving West Builder of the steamboat

$400 Answer from Moving West Who was Robert Fulton?

$500 Question from Moving West Erie Canal

$500 Answer from Moving West What is the name of the famous canal in New York State?

$100 Question from Oregon Trail A mountain man who explored the South pass through the Rocky Mountains.

$100 Answer from Oregon Trail Who is Jedidiah Smith?

$200 Question from Oregon Trail They wanted land a new start in life.

$200 Answer from Oregon Trail Why did people travel west on the Oregon Trail?

$300 Question from Oregon Trail People who went to California in 1849 during the gold rush.

$300 Answer from Oregon Trail Who are forty-niners?

$400 Question from Oregon Trail A German business man who sold jeans to miners.

$400 Answer from Oregon Trail Who is Levi Strauss?

$500 Question from Oregon Trail He brought denim to build tents.

$500 Answer from Oregon Trail What did Levi Strauss initially want to build with his denim?

$100 Question from Railroad A horse-and-rider relay service for carrying mail.

What was the Pony Express? $100 Answer from Railroad What was the Pony Express?

$200 Question from Railroad The telegraph and then the railroad

$200 Answer from Railroad What put the Pony Express out of business?

$300 Question from Railroad This cut travel time from the east to the west from months to days

$300 Answer from Railroad What was the Transcontinental Railroad?

$400 Question from Railroad Many Chinese immigrants built the railroad.

$400 Answer from Railroad How were immigrants important To the westward expansion?

$500 Question from Railroad A golden spike

$500 Answer from Railroad What did they put at the end Of the railroad?

$100 Question from Cowboys To deliver cows to the railroad towns that would send them to market

$100 Answer from Cowboys Why did cowboys go on Cattle drives?

$200 Question from Cowboys Bad weather, scarce water, Few trees

$200 Answer from Cowboys What were some problems That Farmers on the Great Plains faced?

$300 Question from Cowboys Once the mines stopped producing gold, people moved away

$300 Answer from Cowboys How did mining towns turn to Ghost towns?

$400 Question from Cowboys Eureka!

What did people say when they struck gold? $400 Answer from Cowboys What did people say when they struck gold?

$500 Question from Cowboys Young, skinny boys

What kind of people did they Want to ride in the Pony Express ? $500 Answer from Cowboys What kind of people did they Want to ride in the Pony Express ?

$100 Question from Indians He was the Cherokee who invented a system for writing and reading the Cherokee language.

$100 Answer from Indians Who was Sequoyah?

$200 Question from Indians The Cherokee were forced to leave their home and march to a new home 800 miles away.

$200 Answer from Indians What was the Trail of Tears?

$300 Question from Indians They used them for food, shelter, clothing, tools, bowstrings and fuel.

$300 Answer from Indians Why were Buffalo so important to the Plains

$400 Question from Indians People hunted them until there were few left.

$400 Answer from Indians What happened to the great buffalo herds?

$500 Question from Indians They were driven off their lands and onto Reservations.

What happened to the Sioux when settlers moved in? $500 Answer from Indians What happened to the Sioux when settlers moved in?

For better places to live and opportunities that they didn’t have. Final Jeopardy For better places to live and opportunities that they didn’t have.

Final Jeopardy Answer Why did people move west despite the difficulties?