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what were two ways people traveled across the continent from east to west before the transcontienential railroad? |
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| they used stagecoaches and boats (the boats would go right around South America and then to north america) |
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what was the purpose of the PONY EXPRESS? what caused it to go out of business?? |
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| The PONY EXPRESS was used to deliver mail across the country but then the telegraph was invented so the PONY EXPRESS was put out of business |
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| how did the telegraph change communcation? |
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| the telegraph changed communication so that it could get quicker to talk to someone |
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| S.M. invented the Morse code for the telegraph |
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| when was the transconteinetial railroad started and why was it built???? |
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| it was started in 1862 and it was built so that goods could get across the country faster. |
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how did Abraham Lincoin feel about the railroad? |
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| he was a happy strong suppoter because he was going to connect the nation together :D |
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what problems did the *central pacific and what about the Union Pacific? * central pacific answer in red, union pacific in yellow. |
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the union had to go through the Indians Territory the central had to go through the mountains SOUNDS LIKE TROUBLE! :( |
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| why did the companies race against each other each other to build the most track? |
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| they race because each mile was worth money so they tried to build more than the other company. |
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| what was the signifacence (importance) of the golden spike? |
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| the golden spike symbolized the importance of the project. |
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| where and when was the railroad completed? |
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| May 10,1869 in Prontemary Point, Utah |
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| how long did it take to build the railroad? |
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| this is a horse-drawn wagon that traveled in regular stages. |
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| this business delivered mail from Missouri to California in just ten days! |
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| invention that sent messages along wires using electricity is |
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| this person developed a way to send telegraph messages |
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| this company was part of transcontiential railroad that ran east from Sacremento, Californa |
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| part of transconteinential railroad that ran west from Omaha, Nebraska. |
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| told Union Pacific workers that they were scaring away the buffalo |
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| warmed Native American leader that they would not stop the locomotive |
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| place where union pacific and central pacific met |
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| MAJOR obstacle to central pacific |
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| how mant times zones exsist in the U.S |
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| does the time become earlier or later as you move east to west across the U.S? |
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| In what time zone is Miami located? |
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| the goverment hope that the__________________________ would encourage pioneers to move to the Great Plains |
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| the famous novel O Pioneer!, by: _______ describes homesteaders' changing feelings about the Great Plains. |
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| Europeans' desire to move to the Great Plains was so strong it became known as _______ |
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| Afracain american pioneers called themselves ______ after a book in the Bible that tells the story of Moses leading the Isrealites out of slavery |
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| ______ helped make their life easier for Great Plains farmers |
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| what was the purpose of the homstead act? |
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| the U.S. goverment wanted to encourage pioneers to move to the great plains so the great plains would become a productive farmland |
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| how could settlers get land according to the homestead act |
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| if you were a 21 year old man or a woman head of the house, you could own 160 acres for only $10.00 and you have to live for 5 years |
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| describe the great plains |
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| had thick tangled roots for grass,good fertile soil, and flat land in the middle of the country |
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| what challenges did the homesteaders face on the great plains (have four) |
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| sod, hot, fires, bad weather and grasshoppers |
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| when European countries heard that the great plains had fertile soil they started moving to the great plains. |
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| what were the reasons exodusters came to the great plains? |
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| wnated to get out of discrimination. so their children could play |
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| how did different technoligies help pioneers turn the great plains into a farmland (need four) |
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steel plows- getting the sod up better
winmills- pumped water to the surface
barbed wire-kept animals away from crops
dry farming- mosture stored in the soil |
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| what did willa cather write in her book, O Pioneer!? |
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| the struggle to build a farm |
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| cattle drives were a way for ranchers to get their cattle to_ in the east |
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| the drives began in _ and ended in in the Great Plains railroad towns such as dodge city kansas |
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| The Goodnight-Loving Trail established by _ _ in 1866 ran from texas to colorado |
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| ___ began fencing in their lands with barbed wire to keep their cattle of their farmland |
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| farmers :D :D:D :D:D:D:D:D:D:D::D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D |
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| once _____ reached Texas it was no longer necssary for for ranchers to drive their cattle to the north |
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| during the California ___1_____ thousands of people moved west in search of gold. Soon enough in 1850 Californa became a ___2___. |
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| Who discovered gold in the Rockies? |
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| the flood of newcomers created oppertunities for ____________ like Luzena Stanley Wilson and Levi Stratuss |
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| San Fran.,California, and ______ are two examples of important cities that emerged from supply stations for miners |
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| the tribes on the plains conflicted with: |
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| the goverment wanted the land to be used by settlers for farms and raches for expanding _1 _ and for new towns so the decied to move indians onto ___2__ |
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1. railroad lines 2. reservations |
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the Lakota moved onto a reservation in the _____ ___ in South Dakota and Wyoming |
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___1_____ was the leader of the lakota and didnt want to sell the land there after the _2__ was discovered there |
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| Gen.__________ had to job of making the lakota move to a new reservation |
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| he was defeated by the lakota at the Battle of______________ |
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| this battle was a victory to the lakota because_______________ but it was also a defeat because _____________________________________ |
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1. they killed George Custer 2.it soon led to the end of freedom for native americans across the great plains |
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| the ___ ___ tribe in Oregan was also having trouble with the goverment who was trying to move them to a reservation in ___________________ |
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| the leader ________ didnt want to leave the land |
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which tribe wanted to escape with sitting bull in canada? |
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| Gen. Nelson Miles told what to the Nez Perce tribe? |
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| that he would let the tribe go back to oregan |
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| Who's famous words were " from where the sun now stand I will fight no more forever" |
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| the goverment lied to the nez perce and sent them to a reservation in _____ |
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The _1_ tribe led by Geronimo, had trouble with the goverment and tribed to escape to _2_ |
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| The battle of _________ was the last of the Indian wars |
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| In the Battle of Wounded Knee many ____ Indians were killed after they decided to surrender to the goverment |
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HOW WOULD HAVE NATIVE AMERICANS ACTED DIFFERNTLY TO LIFE ON THE RESERVATIONS? |
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| they tryed to keep their culture or be and American :D |
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