Americans move west

What was an trans continental railroad

• Railroad from the north to south

• Railroad from the east to the west of the united states

• Railroad that from cities to cities

The most popular breed of cattle was ____________

In 1860 a system of messengers on horseback called the _________ began to carry messages west. 

an area of land that is undeveloped

• boomtowns

• open range

• frontier

The _________________ was the U.S. Army’s worst defeat in the battle over western lands, and the Sioux’s last major victory.

• Little Bighorn

• Civil War

• World War I

• Vicksburg

New treaties between the United States and Plains Indians in 1861 created _________________, areas of federal land set aside for American Indians.

• cattle drive

• open range

• reservations

This cattle trail ran from San Antonio, Texas to the cattle town of Abilene, Kansas.

• Western Trail

• Chisolm Trail

• Goodnight-Loving Trail

• Potter-Bacon Trail

The Massacre of Wounded Knee was the first major incident on the Great Plains.

• True

• False

Plains farmers were given this nickname.

• Exodusters

• sodbusters

• deflation

__________________________ was one of a cowboy’s most important and dangerous jobs.

• cattle drive

• open range

• reservations