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S.S. ch. 3, 2009
Sagorac
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Uses of new ideas to make tools that improve people's lives. | technology |
| A device that sends messages through wires using electricity. | telegraph |
| Early settler of a region. | pioneer |
| Great plains farmer of the late 1800's who had to cut through sod, or thick grass, before planting crops. | sodbuster |
| Name of African American pioneers who moved to the Great Plains after the Civil War. | exoduster |
| Settlers who claimed land on the Great Plains under the Homestead Act. | homesteader |
| Sudden movement of many people to an area where gold has been found. | gold rush |
| Person who starts a new business, hoping to make a profit. | entrepreneur |
| Land set aside by the government for Native Americans. | reservation |
| Method cowboys used tomove lange herds of cattle north from ranches in Texas to towns along the railroads in the late 1800's. | cattle drive |
| What delivery service was put out of business by the invention of the telegraph? | the Pony Express |
| What was one of the companies that built the transcontinental railroad? | Union Pacific |
| What was the immigrant, George Shima Known as the? | Potato King |
| What is Mark Twain best known for? | being a famous writer |
| Who was a leader of the Apache? | Geronimo |
| what object symbolized the gold rush? | a gold nugget |
| What is an example of one of the communities where African American pioneers started new lives? | Nicodemus |
| What important metal was found in the Black Hills? | Gold |
| The Battle of Little Bighorn was inportant because? | It was the biggest victory Native Americans ever won over U.S forces. |
| What Lakota chief told railroad workers that they were scaring away the buffalo? | Red Cloud |
| What author wrote about the changing feeling about the plains in her famous novel O Pioneers? | Willa Cather |
| Name the U.S. colonel whose Seventh Cavalry fought at the Battle of Little Bighorn. | George Custer |
| Cheif Joseph was the leader of what group of Native Americans? | Nez Perce |
| Upon completion of the transcontinental railroad, what two tracks met in what city? | Promontory Point |
| Chicago was the nations leading supplier of what? | fresh meat |
| Why was Virginia City one of the West's biggest boomtowns? | Gold and siver were discovered there |
| Under the Homestead Act, what was the maximum number of acres you could claim? | 160 acres |
| Name the American inventor who helped develop a way to send telegraph messages using a code? | Samuel Morse |
| What immigrants made up about 80% of the Central Pacific workforce? | Chinese |
| Name the person who made the world's first blue jeans? | Levi Strauss |
| Name the two Lakota leaders that led their people against the American soldiers at the Battle of Little Bighorn? | Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse |
| Name the place that had the nickname "Great American Desert"? | Great Plains |
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