Wild West X-Questions

Question 1

African Americans Out West

Answer 1

Were Cowboys and Exodusters

Question 2

Homestead Acts

Answer 2

Involved giving land to people

Question 3

Purpose of Carlisle School

Answer 3

“Save the man” and Kill the Indian”

Question 4

Time Period of The Wild West

Answer 4

1848-1890

Question 5

Barbed Wire and the Opened Range

Answer 5

Barbed wire kept cows confined in a certain area while open range had branded cows grazing as they pleased

Question 6

Building the Transcontinental Railroad

Answer 6

Began during the Lincoln Administration. Was completed in 1869

Question 7

Soddie

Answer 7

A crude name for a home composed of mud, dirt, dry animal waste etc.

Question 8

Wagon Train Mortality

Answer 8

Wagon train morality is a code valuing survival/responsibility over ideals. An example is a wagon train resorting to cannibalism.

Question 9

Native American Survival on the Great Plains

Answer 9

Dependent on the buffalo

Question 10

Vigilante

Answer 10

One who takes the law into his/her own hands

Question 11

What is a cow town?

Answer 11

Town at the end of cattle drive that hooks up with a railroad