Abeka US History-Ch. 8 Review

area of prairie land in central United States

• Great Plains

• Great Pastures

• Wild West

• Oklahoma

mail delivery by a relay system of horses and riders

• Stagecoach Service
• Telegraph System
• Pony Express
• Horseback Mail Delivery

communication system invented by Samuel Morse

• radio and Wells Fargo

• telephone and Morse Code

• telegraph and Morse Code

• internet and email

stagecoach company that delivered miner's gold to banks and carried mail and passengers

• Bank of America
• Union Pacific
• Wells Fargo
• American Express

where the two companies building the first transcontinental railroad met

• Promontory Summit, Utah
• Denver, Colorado
• Omaha, Nebraska
• Sacramento, California

another name for "Custer's Last Stand"

• Battle of Gettysburg
• Battle of Antietam
• Battle of Little Bighorn
• Battle of Yorktown

this law made Native Americans citizens of the United States

• Indian Reorganization Act of 1934
• Indian Citizenship Act of 1924
• Dawes Act of 1887
• Treaty of Fort Laramie

where 200 Lakota people were killed by the US army

• Pine Ridge Reservation Incident
• Sand Creek Massacre
• Battle of Little Bighorn
• Wounded Knee Massacre

land set aside for Native American tribes

• reservations
• federal territories
• tribal lands
• land grants

trail used by cattlemen to get their herds to Abilene, Kansas

• Cattlemen's Route
• Longhorn Trail
• Texas Trail
• Chisholm Trail