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American Frontier Vocab Quiz

Quiz by Tabitha Neufeld

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  • Q1
    Match the term with the image:
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    Exodusters
    Cattle Drive
    Sodbusters
    Pony Express
    30s
  • Q2
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    Pony Express
    Comstock Lode
    Transcontinental Railroad
    Exodusters
    30s
  • Q3
    Match the term with the image:
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    Exodusters
    Pony Express
    Chisholm Trail Cattle Drive
    Homestead Act
    30s
  • Q4
    Match the term with the image:
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    Exodusters
    Transcontinental Railroad
    Homestead Act
    Oklahoma Land Rush
    30s
  • Q5
    Match the term with the image:
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    Wounded Knee Massacre
    Reservations
    Oklahoma Land Rush
    Battle of Little Big Horn
    30s
  • Q6
    Match the term with the image:
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    Sodbusters
    Oklahoma Land Rush
    Transcontinental Railroad
    Homestead Act
    30s
  • Q7
    Match the term with the image:
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    Reservations
    Battle of Little Bighorn
    Oklahoma Land Rush
    Wounded Knee Massacre
    30s
  • Q8
    Match the term with the image:
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    Exodusters
    Oklahoma Land Rush
    Sodbusters
    Pony Express
    30s
  • Q9
    Match the term with the image:
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    Transcontinental Railroad
    Exodusters
    Sodbusters
    Homestead Act
    30s
  • Q10
    Match the term with the image:
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    Wounded Knee Massacre
    Oklahoma Land Rush
    Battle of Little Bighorn
    Transcontinental Railroad
    30s
  • 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?
    Chinese
    Miners
    Native Americans
    Pioneers
    30s
  • 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 Towns
    Homestead Act
    Pony Express
    Transcontinental Railroad
    30s
  • 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 Trail
    Cow Towns
    Native American Drivers
    Transcontinental Railroad
    30s

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