American Frontier Vocab Quiz
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- Q1Match the term with the image:ExodustersCattle DriveSodbustersPony Express30s
- Q2Match the term with the image:Pony ExpressComstock LodeTranscontinental RailroadExodusters30s
- Q3Match the term with the image:ExodustersPony ExpressChisholm Trail Cattle DriveHomestead Act30s
- Q4Match the term with the image:ExodustersTranscontinental RailroadHomestead ActOklahoma Land Rush30s
- Q5Match the term with the image:Wounded Knee MassacreReservationsOklahoma Land RushBattle of Little Big Horn30s
- Q6Match the term with the image:SodbustersOklahoma Land RushTranscontinental RailroadHomestead Act30s
- Q7Match the term with the image:ReservationsBattle of Little BighornOklahoma Land RushWounded Knee Massacre30s
- Q8Match the term with the image:ExodustersOklahoma Land RushSodbustersPony Express30s
- Q9Match the term with the image:Transcontinental RailroadExodustersSodbustersHomestead Act30s
- Q10Match the term with the image:Wounded Knee MassacreOklahoma Land RushBattle of Little BighornTranscontinental Railroad30s
- Q11"The Pacific Railroad is being built by Chinese labor; several thousand Chinamen are now rapidly grading the track through the rocks and sand of the Sierra Nevadas. Without them, indeed this great work would have to wait for years, or move on with slow, hesitating steps." Samuel Bowles, editor 1865 According to Bowles, who built the Pacific Railroad?ChineseMinersNative AmericansPioneers30s
- Q12"One year ago this was a vast houseless uninhabited prairie...Today I can see more than thirty dwellings from my door." Nebraska Settler 1872 What event most likely caused what the Nebraska Settler witnessed?Cow TownsHomestead ActPony ExpressTranscontinental Railroad30s
- Q13"Here all these cheap long-horned steers overrunning Texas; here was the rest of the country crying for beef-and no railroads to get them out. So we trailed them out, across hundreds of miles of wild country that was thick with Indians." E.C. Abbot 1880 Abbott states that the country wants beef. How did the cowboys get the steers to other parts of the country?Chisholm TrailCow TownsNative American DriversTranscontinental Railroad30s