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Final Jeopardy

$100 Question Trans. Railroad

What is the transcontinental railroad?

$100 Answer Trans. Railroad

A railroad that crosses a continent

$200 Question Trans. Railroad

Name the two companies that began building the transcontinental

railroad in the U.S.

$200 Answer Trans. Railroad

Central PacificUnion Pacific

$300 Question from Trans. Railroad

The Union Pacific began buildingtrack ________ from Omaha, Nebraska

$300 Answer from Trans. Railroad

West

$400 Question from Trans. Railroad

The Central Pacific began building ________from Sacramento, California

$400 Answer from Trans. Railroad

East

$500 Question from Trans. Railroad

Where did both tracks meet?

$500 Answer from Trans. Railroad

Promontory Point, Utah

$100 Question from Great Plains

What is a pioneer?

$100 Answer from Great Plains

A settler (moves from one place to another)

$200 Question from Great Plains

In order to encourage peopleto 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

Describe life as a pioneer

$400 Answer from Great Plains

1. Built houses out of sod2. Hot summers, cold winters

3. Droughts4. Grasshopper invasions

$500 Question from Great Plains

What are the requirements of theHomestead Act?

$500 Answer from Great Plains

1. Man over 21 or widowed woman2. Live and farm the land for 5 years3. Pay a $10 fee

$100 Question from Cowboys and Miners

Where did cattle drives begin?

$100 Answer from Cowboys and Miners

Texas

$200 Question from Cowboys and Miners

What would cowboys doto keep the cattle calm at night?

$200 Answer from Cowboys and Miners

Sing

$300 Question from Cowboys and Miners

What is the name of the people who rushed to

California during the Gold Rush?

$300 Answer from Cowboys and Miners

49ers

$400 Question from Cowboys and Miners

The gold rush created opportunitiesfor ____________________ because

they were able to start businesses for a profit.

$400 Answer from Cowboys and Miners

Entrepreneurs

$500 Question from Cowboys and Miners

___________ turned into ______________when the gold ran out and people

moved to other places.

$500 Answer from Cowboys and Miners

Boomtowns turned to ghost towns

$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

Who won the Battle of Little Bighorn at first?

$200 Answer from N.A. Conflict

Native Americans

$300 Question from N.A. Conflict

He and his tribe tried to run awayto Canada, but were stopped right

before the border.

$300 Answer from N.A. Conflict

Chief Joseph

$400 Question from N.A. Conflict

Colonel who was killed at the Battleof Little Bighorn

$400 Answer from N.A. Conflict

George Custer

$500 Question from N.A. Conflict

Describe what happened to the Lakotatribe after they moved to the Black

Hills

$500 Answer from N.A. Conflict

1. Made a treaty with the U.S.2. Moved to the Black Hills3. Gold was found in the Black Hills4. U.S. wanted the land back, butSitting Bull refused5. Led to the Battle of Little Bighorn

$100 Question from Vocab

Service in 1860 that used riderson horses to deliver mail

from Missouri to California

$100 Answer from Vocab

Pony Express

$200 Question from Vocab

Device that sent messages throughwires using electricity.

$200 Answer from Vocab

Telegraph

$300 Question from Vocab

Inventor of blue jeans

$300 Answer from Vocab

Levi Strauss

$400 Question from Vocab

Way cowboys moved large herdsof cattle from Texas to the East

$400 Answer from Vocab

Cattle Drives

$500 Question from Vocab

A farmer who cuts through sod beforeplanting crops

$500 Answer from Vocab

Sodbuster

Final Jeopardy

Pioneers referred to the Great Plains by anothername. What was that name?

Final Jeopardy Answer

Great American Desert