1. This IS
Jeopardy

3. Key Terms

4. Key Terms (2)

5. Key People

6. Great Plains

7. Transcontinental Railroad

8. Random

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10. Large Deposit of Precious Ore

11. Bonanza
PP 100

12. Popular cattle drive from San Antonio, Texas to Kansas

13. Chisolm Trail
PP 200

14. Group of African Americans who settled on Plains

15. Exodusters
PP 300

16. Mexican Cowboys

17. Vaqueros
pp 400

18. Conflicts resulting from competition between large and small ranchers

19. Range Wars
PP 500

20. Material used to make houses on the Great Plains

21. Sod
Laws 100

22. Areas of federal land set aside for Native Americans

23. Reservation
Laws 200

24. Public land on which cattle grazed

25. Open Range
Laws 300

26. Gave government owned land to farmers

27. Homestead Act
Laws 400

28. What type of tax did you pay in the simulation and explain why

29. Property Tax
Laws 500

30. Leader of the Nez Perce

31. Chief Joseph
Ind 100

32. Designed the reaper

33. Cyrus McCormick
Ind 200

34. Invented barbed wire

35. Joseph Glidden
Ind 300

36. Began the Ghost Dance

37. Wovoka
Ind 400

38. Name the 2 Native American leaders who defeated Custer

39. Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull
Ind 500

40. How many acres of land did the Homestead Act give settlers

41. 160
pres 100

42. Messengers on horseback who delivered mail

43. Pony Express
Pres 200

44. The Western frontier was mostly settled by which year (1860, 1890, 1910, 1945)

45. 1890
Pres 300

46. U.S. Army led Navajo captives on a 300 mile desert march known as

47. Long Walk
Pres 400

48. This marked the end of the fighting on the Great Plains

49. Massacre at Wounded Knee
Pres 500

50. The two RR companies were named

51. Central Pacific and Union Pacific
Pot Luck 100

52. Most of the Central Pacific RR workers were of what origin

53. Chinese
Pot Luck 200

54. Most Union Pacific workers were

55. Irish
Pot Luck 300

56. This legislation gave the Railroad companies incentives to complete the project

57. Pacific Railway Acts
Pot Luck 400

58. Daily
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59. Where did the two RR companies meet to finish the Transcontinental Railroad

60. Promontary Point, Utah
Pot Luck 500

61. This is the belief that the United States should stretch from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean

62. Manifest Destiny
Key 100

63. The Plains Indians were dependent on which two animals

64. Horse and Buffalo
Key 200

65. Spanish and English breeds of cattle mixed to produce this type of cattle

66. Texas Longhorn
Key 300

67. This type of farming left parts of the fields unplanted each year so that the soil preserved water

68. Dry Farming
Key 400

69. This person invented a deep steel plow to break sod on the Great Plains

70. John Deere
Key 500

71. Final
Jeopardy

72. This woman wrote “A Century of Dishonor” criticizing the governments’ treatment of Native Americans