20.1-2

Question 1

year of the Homestead Act

Answer 1

1862

Question 2

year of the purchase of Alaska

Answer 2

1867

Question 3

year the transcontinental railroad was completed

Answer 3

1869

Question 4

year of the Spanish-American War

Answer 4

1898

Question 5

year Hawaii became an organized US territory

Answer 5

1900

Question 6

railroads became the main form of transportation by the _____

Answer 6

1860s

Question 7

________ laid track West from Nebraska

Answer 7

Union Pacific Railroad (used Civil War veterans)

Question 8

_______ was hired to lay track East from California

Answer 8

Central Pacific Railroad (used Chinese laborers)

Question 9

the two railroad companies met and completed the transcontinental railroad at ________

Answer 9

Promontory Point, Utah

Question 10

5th transcontinental railroad greatly developed by the private funding of the “Empire Builder”

Answer 10

the Great Northern

Question 11

the “Empire Builder”

Answer 11

James J. Hill (established the Great Northern)

Question 12

the _______ brought the greatest decade of railroad growth in American history

Answer 12

1880s

Question 13

_______ integrated railroad lines and provided service from New York to Chicago and St. Louis

Answer 13

Cornelius Vanderbilt (“Commodore”)

Question 14

most successful railroad business tycoon

Answer 14

Jay Gould

Question 15

same distance between railroads on all railroads

Answer 15

standard gauge

Question 16

developed the “sleeping car” for travel

Answer 16

George Pullman

Question 17

developed the airbrake

Answer 17

George Westinghouse

Question 18

controlled most of the telegraph networks across the country

Answer 18

Western Union Company

Question 19

allowed trains to be “on time” as they travelled great distances

Answer 19

time zones

Question 20

_______ and _______ caused many “mining towns” to grow in the West

Answer 20

Pike’s Peak and Comstock Lode

Question 21

the beef industry grew in the West due to large herd of _________

Answer 21

Texas longhorns

Question 22

two cities known for meatpacking houses

Answer 22

Kansas City and Chicago

Question 23

favorite route of long cattle drives

Answer 23

Chisholm Trail

Question 24

towns where herds met rail lines

Answer 24

cow towns

Question 25

made it possible to ship fresh beef to industrial centers

Answer 25

refrigerator car

Question 26

allowed farmers to receive 160 acres in the West for $10 upon agreeing to live on it and improve it for 5 years

Answer 26

Homestead Act

Question 27

2 common prairie houses

Answer 27

dugouts and sod houses

Question 28

staple food of the prairie

Answer 28

corn

Question 29

chilled-iron plow

Answer 29

James Oliver

Question 30

barbed wire

Answer 30

Joseph Glidden

Question 31

nation's breadbasket

Answer 31

Great Plains

Question 32

known for flour milling processes and mills in Minneapolis (largest in the world)

Answer 32

Charles Alfred Pillsbury

Question 33

state added to the Union in 1864

Answer 33

Nevada

Question 34

state added to the Union in 1867

Answer 34

Nebraska

Question 35

state added to the Union 100 years after the Declaration of Independence; The Centennial State

Answer 35

Colorado

Question 36

last Western state settled by “sooners” (came prior to its opening) and “boomers” (waited at boundary line for opening)

Answer 36

Oklahoma

Question 37

by ______, the West was completely colonized

Answer 37

1890

Question 38

nothing posed a greater threat to the natives than _______

Answer 38

the destruction of the buffalo

Question 39

one of the most powerful tribes of the Northern plains

Answer 39

Sioux

Question 40

the Sioux were promised the Black Hills in the Dakota territory, but were betrayed when gold was found; this resulted in the ________

Answer 40

Sioux War

Question 41

most famous battle of the Sioux War; Colonel George A. Custer and his soldiers were killed by the Sioux Chief Crazy Horse and medicine man Sitting Bull

Answer 41

Battle of Little Big Horn

Question 42

tribe led by Chief Joseph

Answer 42

Nez Perce

Question 43

fiercest tribe

Answer 43

the Apache

Question 44

famous leader of the Apache

Answer 44

Geronimo

Question 45

last major conflict between America and the Native Americans; many innocent natives were killed in this massacre

Answer 45

Wounded Knee

Question 46

Native American who introduced the “Ghost Dance”

Answer 46

Wovoka

Question 47

wrote A Century of Dishonor; described the unjust treatment of the Native Americans

Answer 47

Helen Jackson

Question 48

Congress passed the _______ in 1887 to offer the land to the Native Americans

Answer 48

Dawes Act

Question 49

created reservation lands for Indian tribes across America

Answer 49

Indian Reorganization Act

Question 50

sensational stories about the West

Answer 50

Dime novels

Question 51

one of the best-known heroes of the West; Carson City is named for him

Answer 51

Kit Carson

Question 52

also known as “Buffalo Bill” because of his hunting escapades; performed in Wild West Shows in the East

Answer 52

William F. Cody