What best describes a major challenge faced by the railroad builders on the Great Plains?

Group made up the largest part of the Central Pacific’s workforce that faced discrimination?

Which innovation allowed people and goods to travel across the country in just 10 days?

What was the main purpose of the Homestead Act?

Why did many Exodusters come to the Great Plains?

Which of the following is NOT an economic reason that pioneers moved out west.

Which of the following best describes a reason why cattle drives came to an end?

The Transcontinental RR positively impacted the development of the West by fostering:

Transcontinental RR transported products from farms in the ______ to the markets in the _____.

Which new technology was used to bust through the hard packed sod on the Great Plains?

Which new technologies was used to bring water up from below the ground on the Great Plains

What did immigrants bring with them to the Great Plains?

Look at the Map Provided. Which letter shows where the Rocky Mountains are?

Look at the Map Provided. Which letter shows where St. Louis is?

Method used to move large herds north to the railroads.

Reformers believed Native Americans would adopt white man ways

A person who gets to a piece of land first & claims this land as their own just by being there.

Land set aside by government for Native Americans

African American pioneers

Areas where population grew in the west because of new settlers.

Native Americans were pushed off their land for Homesteaders

Look at the Map Provided. Which letter shows where the Oregon Trail is?

Look at the Map Provided. Which letter shows where Louisiana is?

Prospectors had conflict with

Ranchers and Cowboys had conflict with

Mexican Americans had conflict with

Boomtowns grew slowly, met the need of people, and then vanished

_______________________ own the Ranch and herd

__________________ were hired to take care of the herd.

Cowboys drove the herd across the plains to the ____________________.

The herd was shipped to ___________________________________ in the East.

________________ would steal the cattle

_______________________ would be upset with cattle coming through town.

Cattle drives still happen today

___________________ owned the southwest part of the United States.

After the Mexican War, many Mexicans lived in land "ceded by treaty" to the United States.

Many African Americans were eager to move West because of

Which group primarily settled in Nicodemus, Kansas?

Some European Immigrants moved to the West to start new lives.

Which group was resented by those who had been born in the United States (nativism)

Which group came to the U.S. for gold and to build the transcontinental railroad?

Asian immigrants/ Chinese workers laid rails from ______________ to ________________.

Asian immigrants/Chinese workers were paid the same amount as white workers and were treated fairly.

Asian immigrants were tolerated as long as the railroad was being built.

The U.S. passed a law ________________________ Chinese immigrants