Wild, Wild West
Wild, Wild West
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Category 1 $10 Question Early settler of a region
Category 1 $10 Answer What is a Pioneer?
Category 1 $20 Question African American Pioneers who moved to the Great Plains after the Civil War
Category 1 $20 Answer Who are the Exodusters?
Category 1 $30 Question Great Plains farmer of the late 1800’s who had to cut through thick sod before planting crops
Category 1 $30 Answer Who are the Sodbusters?
Category 1 $40 Question Settlers who claimed land through the Homestead Act
Category 1 $40 Answer Who are the Homesteaders?
Category 1 $50 Question One who extracted gold from the earth
Category 1 $50 Answer What is a miner?
Category 2 $10 Question Railroad that crosses a continent
Category 2 $10 Answer What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
Category 2 $20 Question Mail service begun in 1860 that used a relay of riders
Category 2 $20 Answer What is The Pony Express?
Category 2 $30 Question Device that sends messages through wires using electricity
Category 2 $30 Answer What is the telegraph?
Category 2 $40 Question Quick economic growth
Category 2 $40 Answer What is a boom?
Category 2 $50 Question The act that led to the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad
Category 2 $50 Answer What is the Pacific Railroad Act?
Category 3 $10 Question Trips on which cowhands moved large numbers of cattle to the railroads
Category 3 $10 Answer What is a long drive?
Category 3 $20 Question The time period when thousands of people went to California to search for Gold
Category 3 $20 Answer What is the Gold Rush?
Category 3 $30 Question A person that raised cattle
Category 3 $30 Answer What is a Rancher?
Category 3 $40 Question What caused mining towns to become ghost towns?
Category 3 $40 Answer What is the gold ran out?
Category 3 $50 Question What was the purpose of the Homestead Act?
Category 3 $50 Answer What is to make people move out West to expand the nation?
Category 4 $10 Question Created a stronger plow
Category 4 $10 Answer Who was John Deere?
Category 4 $20 Question He was defeated at the Battle of Little Bighorn
Category 4 $20 Answer Who is George Custer?
Category 4 $30 Question He invented barbed wire.
Category 4 $30 Answer Who is Joseph Glidden?
Category 4 $40 Question This Native American Chief surrendered to the US Army and ended the “Indian Wars.”
Category 4 $40 Answer Who is Geronimo?
Category 4 $50 Question This Indian Chief led the Nez Perces in an escape to Canada, but did not make it.
Category 4 $50 Answer Who is Chief Joseph?
Category 5 $10 Question What was the main resource of the Plains Indians?
Category 5 $10 Answer What is Buffalo?
Category 5 $20 Question Why did ranchers sell their cattle in the North and East?
Category 5 $20 Answer What is because they sold for more money?
Category 5 $30 Question Why did settlers use Sod to build their homes?
Category 5 $30 Answer What is because there were no trees?
Category 5 $40 Question What was the purpose of the Pacific Railroad Act?
Category 5 $40 Answer What is to provide a way to move supplies and goods from the West to the East?
Category 5 $50 Question Name to examples of conflict during Westward Expansion of the 1800’s
Category 5 $50 Answer What are farmers vs. ranchers, Native Americans vs. government, Chinese immigrants vs. miners, etc?