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Question 1

Who was the promoter at Great Northern

Answer 1

Jay Gould

Question 2

Bought the new York Central railway

Answer 2

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Question 3

Dominated the rejection industry in 1880s

Answer 3

Western Union company

Question 4

What section of America became America’s breadbasket

Answer 4

The Midwest

Question 5

Whose flower mills became the largest in the world

Answer 5

Charles Alfred Pillsbury

Question 6

How many states were admitted to the Union between

Answer 6

13

Question 7

What was the most famous battle of the Sioux war of 1876-1877

Answer 7

Custers last stand

Question 8

What novelist pointed out the injustices done to the native Americans

Answer 8

Helen Hunt Jackson

Question 9

What did the Dawes act offer native Americans

Answer 9

Land and citizenship

Question 10

Famous soldier in the Mexican war

Answer 10

Kit Carson

Question 11

City named after kit Carson

Answer 11

Carson City

Question 12

Claimed to kill 1000 Buffalo

Answer 12

William “Buffalo Bill” Cody

Question 13

Won a shootout at OK Corall

Answer 13

Wyatt earp

Question 14

Marshall at abiline Texas

Answer 14

James “wild Bill” Hickok

Question 15

Skilled with rifle on a horse

Answer 15

Calamity Jane

Question 16

Sharpshooter who stared in Buffalo bills wild West show

Answer 16

Annie Oakley

Question 17

Famous outlaws

Answer 17

Jesse James