Westward Expansion Jeopardy Transcontinental Railroad War with Native Americans Cattle Drives Vocab Great Plains 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 Trans. Railroad What invention was created in 1844 that made communication easier in America? Who was the inventor?

$100 Answer – Trans. Railroad Telegraph – Samuel Morse

$200 Question – Trans. Railroad What invention made traveling and shipping easier and faster and what two locations did this invention connect?

Transcontinental Railroad – It connected California and Nebraska $200 Answer – Trans. Transcontinental Railroad – It connected California and Nebraska

$300 Question from Trans. Railroad Name three different groups of people who were hired to build the Transcontinental Railroad.

$300 Answer from Trans. Railroad Former soldiers, freed African Americans, Chinese immigrants, and Irish immigrants

$400 Question from Trans. Railroad What did the Transcontinental Railroad do for America’s people and economy during this time of expansion?

$400 Answer from Trans. Railroad The railroad provided people the opportunity to emigrate to West to build a new life. It also increased trade between the East and the West by allowing states with an agricultural economy to connect with states with a manufacturing/market economy.

$500 Question What year was the transcontinental railroad completed? Where did both tracks meet?

1869 - Promontory Point, Utah $500 Answer 1869 - Promontory Point, Utah

$100 Question from Great Plains What is a pioneer? What were the pioneer farmers of the Great Plains known as?

$100 Answer from Great Plains A settler (moves from one place to another). These farmers became known as sodbusters (had to break through so much thick soil in their daily life as a farmer on the Great Plains)

$200 Question from Great Plains In order to encourage people to move to the Great Plains, the U.S. decided to create the:

$200 Answer from Great Plains Homestead Act

$300 Question from Great Plains Name for African Americans who moved to the Great Plains after the Civil War

$300 Answer from Great Plains Exodusters

$400 Question from Great Plains What were at least 2 reasons settlers from Europe and the East moved to the Great Plains?

$400 Answer from Great Plains Land was used as a price incentive so it was much cheaper than in the East, and 160 acres was much more land than European settlers had Access to in Europe.

$500 Question from Great Plains What year was the Homestead Act passed? What are the requirements of this law?

$500 Answer from Great Plains 1. 1862 2. Must be an adult American citizen or immigrant who wanted to become an American citizen 3. Live and farm the land for 5 years 4. Pay a small amount of money (application fee)

$100 Question from Cattle Drives What years did the Cattle Drive Era take place? Where did the Cattle Drives begin?

$100 Answer from Cattle Drives Late 1860’s – late 1880’s. They began in Texas

$200 Question from Cattle Drives What is a railhead and how were they used for cattle drives?

$200 Answer from Cattle Drives A town where railroad tracks begin or end. These locations were the places where cattle were loaded onto trains to be shipped to northern and eastern cities.

$300 Question from Cattle Drives How does supply and demand correlate with Cattle Drives?

$300 Answer from Cattle Drives Texas had an abundance (huge supply) of cattle, which resulted in a low demand and the value of cattle was much cheaper than farmers wanted to sell for. This resulted in a poor cattle market in Texas. Eastern and Northern cities had a high demand for cattle products such as beef and leather, but the supply of cattle in the North and East was very low. This resulted in the ability for farmers from Texas to sell their cattle at a much higher price in Northern and Eastern cities versus the Texas area.

$400 Question from Cattle Drives What were two significant trails that cattle drives were held on ?

$400 Answer from Cattle Drives The Chisholm Trail and The Great Western Cattle Trail

$500 Question from Cattle Drives What role did Black Cowboys play in the Cattle Drive Era?

$500 Answer from Cattle Drives Black cowboys were African Americans who often emigrated West from the South after the Civil War for the opportunity to get out of the cotton fields and the violent environment in the South. The population of cowboys in Texas was made up of a vast majority of Black cowboys. Their familiarity with land and agriculture made them skilled farmers and cowboys in Texas, however their great skills still did not protect them from having to endure a deal of racial discrimination and prejudice in the years following the Civil War.

$100 Question from N.A. Conflict Land set aside by the U.S. for Native Americans

$100 Answer from N.A. Conflict Reservation

$200 Question from N.A. Conflict What happened at the Battle of Little Bighorn?

$200 Answer from N.A. Conflict George Custer led soldiers to the Black Hills of South Dakota and tried to force the Lakota and Cheyenne Native American Indian tribes onto a reservation. The Native Americans, led by Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, and Gall, fought back to keep from being forced onto a reservation.

$300 Question from N.A. Conflict He and his tribe tried to run away to Canada, but were stopped right before the border.

$300 Answer from N.A. Conflict Chief Joseph

$400 Question from N.A. Conflict What effect did Westward expansion have on the buffalo of the Great Plains?

$400 Answer from N.A. Conflict Settlers destroyed the buffalo habitat by creation of railroads and overall development of the land that millions of buffalo once called home. Settlers also began killing buffalo for meat and sport. These factors resulted in an extreme decrease in the number of buffalo on the Great Plains.

$500 Question from N.A. Conflict What were three aspects of the Native American culture that the government tried to change?

$500 Answer from N.A. Conflict They tried to make certain religious practices illegal (Ghost Dance), sent Native American children to schools where they were not allowed to speak American Indian languages or wear traditional clothing, they also passed the Dawes Act to make American Indians become farmers.

$100 Question from Vocab Assimilation

$100 Answer from Vocab The changing of a group’s culture and tradition to blend in with a larger group

$200 Question from Vocab Prejudice

An unfair, negative opinion that can lead to unjust treatment $200 Answer from Vocab An unfair, negative opinion that can lead to unjust treatment

$300 Question from Vocab Inventor of the electric light bulb

$300 Answer from Vocab Thomas Edison

$400 Question from Vocab A religion that taught that the buffalo would return and dead Indians would come back to life

$400 Answer from Vocab Ghost Dance

$500 Question from Vocab Twisted wire with a sharp barb, or point, every few inches that was often used as fencing material to block the cattle trails that crossed the Great Plains

$500 Answer from Vocab Barbed wire

Pioneers referred to the Great Plains by another Final Jeopardy Pioneers referred to the Great Plains by another name. What was that name?

Final Jeopardy Answer Great American Desert