1. The West Transformed Jeopardy
Cattle, Ranches, & RR
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THE
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Important People
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Maps
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Vocabulary
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2. Vocabulary for 100
Mexican cowhand
Who are vaqueros?

3. Vocabulary for 200
Land set aside for Native Americans to live on.
What are reservations?

4. Vocabulary for 300
A town in Utah where the two parts of the transcontinental railroad were joined.
What is Promontory?

5. Vocabulary for 400
Term that described the myth that the West was a place where gun-slinging cowboys, exciting adventures, and big opportunities existed.
What is the Wild West?

6. Vocabulary for 500 Reformer who wrote A Century of Dishonor.
Who was Helen Hunt Jackson?

7. Important people for 100
Leader of the Sioux.
Who was Sitting Bull?

8. Important People for 200
He was the leader of the Nez Perces.
Who was Chief Joseph?

9. Important People for 300 What is fair treatment?
What was the leader of the Nez Perces asking for when he stated ”If you tie a horse to a stake, do you expect he will grow fat? If you pen an Indian on a small spot of earth and compel him to stay there, he will not be contented nor will he grow and prosper.”
What is fair treatment?

10. Important People for 400
President of the United States when the Homestead Act was passed.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?

11. Important People for 500
His company laid tracks for the western part of the transcontinental railroad.
Who was Leland Stanford?

12. Cattle, Ranches, & RRs for 100
This is how the federal government helped with the construction of railroads.
What is it gave railroad companies land, subsides, in the West?

13. Cattle, Ranches, & RRs for 200
These are two reasons why roundups, cattle drives, and the cattle boom came to an end..
Daily Double!
What are:
1. more cattle roam the open range than can live off the land
2. hot summers and freezing winters kill millions of cattle
3. sheep farmers compete with cattle farmers for grazing land
4. farmers fence the open range to keep cattle from eating their crops

14. Cattle, Ranches, & RRs for 300
What phrase best describes most cattle ranches after the 1880’s.
What is smaller, with cattle eating home-grown feed?

15. Cattle, Ranches, & RRs for 400
The transcontinental railroad did this.
What is connected the East with the West?

16. Cattle, Ranches, & RRs for 500
This is the primary way the government helped farmers settle the plains.
What is the passage of the Homestead Act?

17. THE WEST for 100
This is what Native Americans hoped to gain when agreeing to staying in one place.
What is the right to be undisturbed on their land?

18. THE WEST for 200
Foreign immigrants to the West worked as which of the following:
Cowhands
Soldiers
Miners
Railroad workers
All except soldiers?

19. THE WEST for 300
This is how the Homestead Act encouraged people to move West.
What is that it offered free land to those who farmed it?

20. THE WEST for 400
The Battle of Wounded Knee signaled this.
What was the end of the Indian wars?

21. THE WEST for 500
These are the three events that took place in most mining towns to turn them into boomtowns.
Which was:
1. merchants arrived
2. government officials replaced vigilantes
3. all of the ore was extracted from the mines

22. MAPS for 100
Rail line that provided the most direct route from San Francisco to Cheyenne.
What is the Union Pacific?

23. MAPS for 200
State where the Comstock Lode and Virginia City are found.
What is Nevada?

24. MAPS for 300 .
These were two difficulties miners faced during the gold and silver booms in the West.
What was:
paying high prices for food and supplies
hostility of the Native Americans living on those lands
immigrant miners discriminated against and sometimes violence acted out
area policed by vigilante groups

25. MAPS for 400
This is the significance about the points where the Goodnight-Loving Trail and the Chisholm Trail ended.
What is that they both ended at railroads that shipped cattle to eastern cities?

26. MAPS for 500
Territory where the Sand Creek Massacre happened in 1864.
What is Colorado?

27. This is Final Jeopardy!!!! Possible Answers
Examine how the movement of settlers to the West affected the Native American way of life. Analyze the attempts of the Native American groups and the United States government to settle disputes between Native Americans and settlers, giving two examples that support your main idea.
Possible Answers
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