Wild, Wild West

1. Wild, Wild West

2. Wild, Wild West

3. Groups of People Terms I Terms II Individual People Questions $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $20 $20 $20 $20 $20 $30 $30 $30 $30 $30 $40 $40 $40 $40 $40 $50 $50 $50 $50 $50

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

20. Category 2 $40 Question Quick economic growth

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

34. Category 4 $10 Question Created a stronger plow

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

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

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

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

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

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

41. Who is Geronimo? Category 4 $40 Answer

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

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

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

45. What is Buffalo? Category 5 $10 Answer

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

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

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

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

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