1. Westward Expansion Jeopardy
Transcontinental Railroad
War with Native Americans
Cattle Drives
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2. $100 Question from Trans. Railroad
What invention was created in 1844 that made communication easier in America? Who was the inventor?

3. $100 Answer – Trans. Railroad
Telegraph – Samuel Morse

4. $200 Question – Trans. Railroad
What invention made traveling and
shipping easier and faster
and what two locations
did this invention connect?

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

6. $300 Question from Trans. Railroad
Name three different groups of people who were hired to build the Transcontinental Railroad.

7. $300 Answer from Trans. Railroad
Former soldiers, freed African Americans, Chinese immigrants, and Irish immigrants

8. $400 Question from Trans. Railroad
What did the Transcontinental Railroad
do for America’s people and economy during this time of expansion?

9. $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.

10. $500 Question
What year was the transcontinental railroad completed? Where did both tracks meet?

11. 1869 - Promontory Point, Utah
$500 Answer
Promontory Point, Utah

12. $100 Question from Great Plains
What is a pioneer? What were the pioneer
farmers of the Great Plains known as?

13. $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)

14. $200 Question from Great Plains
In order to encourage people
to move to the Great Plains, the
U.S. decided to create the:

15. $200 Answer from Great Plains
Homestead Act

16. $300 Question from Great Plains
Name for African Americans who moved to the Great Plains
after the Civil War

17. $300 Answer from Great Plains
Exodusters

18. $400 Question from Great Plains
What were at least 2 reasons settlers from Europe and the East moved to the Great Plains?

19. $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.

20. $500 Question from Great Plains
What year was the Homestead Act passed?
What are the requirements of this law?

21. $500 Answer from Great Plains
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)

22. $100 Question from Cattle Drives
What years did the Cattle Drive Era take place?
Where did the Cattle Drives begin?

23. $100 Answer from Cattle Drives
Late 1860’s – late 1880’s.
They began in Texas

24. $200 Question from Cattle Drives
What is a railhead and
how were they used for cattle drives?

25. $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.

26. $300 Question from Cattle Drives
How does supply and demand correlate with Cattle Drives?

27. $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.

28. $400 Question from Cattle Drives
What were two significant trails that
cattle drives were held on ?

29. $400 Answer from Cattle Drives
The Chisholm Trail and
The Great Western Cattle Trail

30. $500 Question from Cattle Drives
What role did Black Cowboys play
in the Cattle Drive Era?

31. $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.

32. $100 Question from N.A. Conflict
Land set aside by the U.S. for
Native Americans

33. $100 Answer from N.A. Conflict
Reservation

34. $200 Question from N.A. Conflict
What happened at the Battle of Little Bighorn?

35. $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.

36. $300 Question from N.A. Conflict
He and his tribe tried to run away
to Canada, but were stopped right
before the border.

37. $300 Answer from N.A. Conflict
Chief Joseph

38. $400 Question from N.A. Conflict
What effect did Westward expansion have on the buffalo of the Great Plains?

39. $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.

40. $500 Question from N.A. Conflict
What were three aspects of the Native American culture that the government tried to change?

41. $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.

42. $100 Question from Vocab
Assimilation

43. $100 Answer from Vocab
The changing of a group’s culture and tradition to blend in with a larger group

44. $200 Question from Vocab
Prejudice

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

46. $300 Question from Vocab
Inventor of the electric light bulb

47. $300 Answer from Vocab
Thomas Edison

48. $400 Question from Vocab
A religion that taught that the buffalo would return and dead Indians would come back to life

49. $400 Answer from Vocab
Ghost Dance

50. $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

51. $500 Answer from Vocab
Barbed wire

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

53. Final Jeopardy Answer
Great American Desert