Jeopardy

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Jeopardy
Cowboys and Miners
Trans. Railroad
War with NA
Vocab
Great Plains
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Final Jeopardy
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100 Question Trans. Railroad
What is the transcontinental railroad?
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100 Answer Trans. Railroad
A railroad that crosses a continent
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200 Question Trans. Railroad
Name the two companies that began building the
transcontinental railroad in the U.S.
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200 Answer Trans. Railroad
Central Pacific Union Pacific
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300 Question from Trans. Railroad
The Union Pacific began building track ________
from Omaha, Nebraska
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300 Answer from Trans. Railroad
West
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400 Question from Trans. Railroad
The Central Pacific began building ________ from
Sacramento, California
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400 Answer from Trans. Railroad
East
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500 Question from Trans. Railroad
Where did both tracks meet?
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500 Answer from Trans. Railroad
Promontory Point, Utah
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100 Question from Great Plains
What is a pioneer?
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100 Answer from Great Plains
A settler (moves from one place to another)
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200 Question from Great Plains
In order to encourage people to move to the Great
Plains, the U.S. decided to create the
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200 Answer from Great Plains
Homestead Act
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300 Question from Great Plains
Name for African Americans who moved to the Great
Plains after the Civil War
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300 Answer from Great Plains
Exodusters
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400 Question from Great Plains
Describe life as a pioneer
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400 Answer from Great Plains

1. Built houses out of sod
2. Hot summers, cold winters
3. Droughts
4. Grasshopper invasions

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500 Question from Great Plains
What are the requirements of the Homestead Act?
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500 Answer from Great Plains
1. Man over 21 or widowed woman 2. Live and farm
the land for 5 years 3. Pay a 10 fee
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100 Question from Cowboys and Miners
Where did cattle drives begin?
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100 Answer from Cowboys and Miners
Texas
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200 Question from Cowboys and Miners
What would cowboys do to keep the cattle calm at
night?
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200 Answer from Cowboys and Miners
Sing
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300 Question from Cowboys and Miners
What is the name of the people who rushed to
California during the Gold Rush?
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300 Answer from Cowboys and Miners
49ers
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400 Question from Cowboys and Miners
The gold rush created opportunities for
____________________ because they were able to
start businesses for a profit.
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400 Answer from Cowboys and Miners
Entrepreneurs
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500 Question from Cowboys and Miners
___________ turned into ______________ when the
gold ran out and people moved to other places.
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500 Answer from Cowboys and Miners
Boomtowns turned to ghost towns
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100 Question from N.A. Conflict
Land set aside by the U.S. for Native Americans
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100 Answer from N.A. Conflict
Reservation
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200 Question from N.A. Conflict
Who won the Battle of Little Bighorn at first?
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200 Answer from N.A. Conflict
Native Americans
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300 Question from N.A. Conflict
He and his tribe tried to run away to Canada, but
were stopped right before the border.
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300 Answer from N.A. Conflict
Chief Joseph
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400 Question from N.A. Conflict
Colonel who was killed at the Battle of Little
Bighorn
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400 Answer from N.A. Conflict
George Custer
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500 Question from N.A. Conflict
Describe what happened to the Lakota tribe after
they moved to the Black Hills
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500 Answer from N.A. Conflict

• Made a treaty with the U.S.
• Moved to the Black Hills
• Gold was found in the Black Hills
• U.S. wanted the land back, but
• Sitting Bull refused
• 5. Led to the Battle of Little Bighorn

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100 Question from Vocab
Service in 1860 that used riders on horses to
deliver mail from Missouri to California
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100 Answer from Vocab
Pony Express
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200 Question from Vocab
Device that sent messages through wires using
electricity.
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200 Answer from Vocab
Telegraph
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300 Question from Vocab
Inventor of blue jeans
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300 Answer from Vocab
Levi Strauss
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400 Question from Vocab
Way cowboys moved large herds of cattle from
Texas to the East
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400 Answer from Vocab
Cattle Drives
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500 Question from Vocab
A farmer who cuts through sod before planting
crops
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500 Answer from Vocab
Sodbuster
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Final Jeopardy
Pioneers referred to the Great Plains by
another name. What was that name?
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Final Jeopardy Answer
Great American Desert