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5. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved Round 1 Final Jeopardy Grou B Group A Group C

6. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved Key Terms V.I.Ps Main Ideas Proper Nouns Bonus ?s $100 $200 $300 $400 $500 Final Jeopardy Scores $100 $200 $300 $400 $500 Last Chance $100 $200 $300 Final Try

7. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 Populist demand for the unlimited production of coinage.

8. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 What is free silver? What is free silver? Scores

9. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 Construction completed in May 1869

10. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 What was the transcontinental railway Scores

11. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 Cities that grew very quickly around gold mining sites

12. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 Scores What are boom towns?

13. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 Hispanic ranch hands in the Spanish Southwest

14. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 Who were vaqueros? Scores

15. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 Had to develop new methods of farming on the Plains

16. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 Who were sodbusters? Scores

17. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 This man was hired by the Kansas Pacific Railroad to kill buffalo.

18. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 Who was William Cody? Scores

19. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 A Sioux military leader

20. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 Who was Crazy Horse? Scores

21. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 African American soldiers in segregated units after the Civil War

22. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 Who were Buffalo Soldiers? Scores

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24. $400 Captured the imagination of the nation.

25. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 Who were cowhands? Scores

26. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 Communities across the United States kept their own time.

27. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 What was life like before the railroads? Scores

28. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 Had its roots in the Farmers Alliance.

29. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 What is the Populist Party? Scores

30. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 Laid railroad track westward from Omaha, Nebraska.

31. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 What was the Union Pacific Company? Scores

32. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 They would work for a very low wage.

33. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 Why were immigrants & African Americans hired to build the transcontinental railroad? Scores

34. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 Hired 10,000 Chinese laborers at low wages to work on railroad tracks

35. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 Who was the Central Pacific Railroad? Scores

36. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 Farmers on the Plains fenced off their land.

37. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 What ended long cattle drives? Scores

38. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 Site of a battle between George Custers troops and the Sioux and Cheyenne peoples.

39. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 What is Little Bighorn? Scores

40. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 A reservation meant for the Sioux people

41. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 What is the Dakota Territory? Scores

42. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 Marked the end of armed conflict between whites and Native Americans.

43. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 What is Wounded Knee? Scores

44. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 Gave land on the Plains to any settler who would live there for 5 years.

45. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 What is the Homestead Act? Scores

46. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 Proposed to make Native Americans landowners and farmers.

47. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 What was the Dawes Act? Scores

48. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 It provided an inexpensive way to start a new life.

49. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 Why was the Homestead Act important to settlers? Scores

50. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 Their population quickly declined.

51. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 What happened to many boomtowns when the mines closed? Scores

52. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 The availability of railroad transport to the North and the East.

53. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 What began the Cattle Kingdom? Scores

54. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 After the Oklahoma land rush.

55. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 When did the American frontier close? Scores

56. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 They had most buffalo on the Plains killed.

57. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 How did railroad companies threaten the livelihoods of the Native Americans? Scores

58. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 The National Grange

59. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 Who addressed farmers problems after the Civil War? Scores

60. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 The economic depression was nearly over.

61. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 Why did the Republican candidate win the presidential election of 1896? Scores

62. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 Government officials made promises they did not intend to keep.

63. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 Why did some Native Americans accept the U.S. governments reservation policy at first? Scores

64. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 To make Native Americans fit into white American culture, to eliminate the nomadic tradition, to break up Native American groups.

65. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 What was the goal of the Dawes Act? Scores

66. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 The Omaha farmed; the Sioux followed the buffalo herds.

67. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 How did the Omaha way of life differ from that of the Sioux? Scores

68. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 Was formed by Farmers Alliance leaders.

69. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 What was the Populist Party? Scores

70. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 Free silver.

71. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 What was a major reform on the Populist agenda? Scores

72. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 To control the Black Hills, against the Sioux, after peace treaties failed.

73. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 Why was the Battle of Little Bighorn fought? Scores

74. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved Scores The Western Frontier Final Jeopardy Question

75. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved To make Native Americans fit into white American culture.

76. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved What was the Dawes Act? Scores