2. Wild, Wild West

3. Wild, Wild West

4. $10 $20 $30 $40 $50 $20 $30 $40 $50 $30 $20 $40 $50 $20 $30 $40 $50 $20 $30 $40 $50 Terms ITerms II Individual People Questions Groups of People

5. Category 1 $10 Question Early settler of a region

6. Category 1 $10 Answer What is a Pioneer?

7. Category 1 $20 Question African American Pioneers who moved to the Great Plains after the Civil War

8. Category 1 $20 Answer Who are the Exodusters?

9. Category 1 $30 Question Great Plains farmer of the late 1800’s who had to cut through thick sod before planting crops

10. Category 1 $30 Answer Who are the Sodbusters?

11. Category 1 $40 Question Settlers who claimed land through the Homestead Act

12. Category 1 $40 Answer Who are the Homesteaders?

13. Category 1 $50 Question One who extracted gold from the earth

14. Category 1 $50 Answer What is a miner?

15. Category 2 $10 Question Railroad that crosses a continent

16. Category 2 $10 Answer What is the Transcontinental Railroad?

17. Category 2 $20 Question Mail service begun in 1860 that used a relay of riders

18. Category 2 $20 Answer What is The Pony Express?

19. Category 2 $30 Question Device that sends messages through wires using electricity

20. Category 2 $30 Answer What is the telegraph?

21. Category 2 $40 Question Quick economic growth

22. Category 2 $40 Answer What is a boom?

23. Category 2 $50 Question The act that led to the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad

24. Category 2 $50 Answer What is the Pacific Railroad Act?

25. Category 3 $10 Question Trips on which cowhands moved large numbers of cattle to the railroads

26. Category 3 $10 Answer What is a long drive?

27. Category 3 $20 Question The time period when thousands of people went to California to search for Gold

28. Category 3 $20 Answer What is the Gold Rush?

29. Category 3 $30 Question A person that raised cattle

30. Category 3 $30 Answer What is a Rancher?

31. Category 3 $40 Question What caused mining towns to become ghost towns?

32. Category 3 $40 Answer What is the gold ran out?

33. Category 3 $50 Question What was the purpose of the Homestead Act?

34. Category 3 $50 Answer What is to make people move out West to expand the nation?

35. Category 4 $10 Question Created a stronger plow

36. Category 4 $10 Answer Who was John Deere?

37. Category 4 $20 Question He was defeated at the Battle of Little Bighorn

38. Category 4 $20 Answer Who is George Custer?

39. Category 4 $30 Question He invented barbed wire.

40. Category 4 $30 Answer Who is Joseph Glidden?

41. Category 4 $40 Question This Native American Chief surrendered to the US Army and ended the “Indian Wars.”

42. Category 4 $40 Answer Who is Geronimo?

43. Category 4 $50 Question This Indian Chief led the Nez Perces in an escape to Canada, but did not make it.

44. Category 4 $50 Answer Who is Chief Joseph?

45. Category 5 $10 Question What was the main resource of the Plains Indians?

46. Category 5 $10 Answer What is Buffalo?

47. Category 5 $20 Question Why did ranchers sell their cattle in the North and East?

48. Category 5 $20 Answer What is because they sold for more money?

49. Category 5 $30 Question Why did settlers use Sod to build their homes?

50. Category 5 $30 Answer What is because there were no trees?

51. Category 5 $40 Question What was the purpose of the Pacific Railroad Act?

52. Category 5 $40 Answer What is to provide a way to move supplies and goods from the West to the East?

53. Category 5 $50 Question Name to examples of conflict during Westward Expansion of the 1800’s

54. Category 5 $50 Answer What are farmers vs. ranchers, Native Americans vs. government, Chinese immigrants vs. miners, etc?