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Where did the Uinon Pacific and Central Pacific Railroad complete the transcontinental Railroad?
a) Pikes Peak, Colorado
b) Sutter's Mill, California
c) Promontory Point, Utah
d) Wounded Knee, North Dakota

What was the largest find of Gold and Silver in the Western US?
a) Sutter's Mill
b) Comstock Load
c) Pike's Peak
d) Chishlom Trail

What was the Native American victory where General Custer was killed?
a) Bull Run
b) Wounded Knee
c) Ghost Dance
d) Battle of Little Big Horn

What invention led to the end of the cattle Kingdom and the Open Range
a) Steel Plow
b) Barbed Wire
c) Time Zones
d) Long Horn Cattle breeding

Money or land given by the Government to a busness in order to build something that the public will use?
a) Subsidy
b) Vigilante
c) Nomad
d) Reservation

Who was the man that started the Wild West Show and killed many of the Buffalo?
a) Jesse Chishlom
b) William Sherman
c) Chief Joseph
d) Bill Cody

All of these describe a cowboy's life except:
a) Long hours, little pay and rootine
b) They were small, Tough, and usually dirty and smelly
c) Carried a gun and mainly fought Indians
d) There were many non-white cowboys

All of these contributed to the end of the cattle kingdom, except...
a) Reservations
b) Bad weather
c) Barbed Wire
d) More Railroads

A Town that sprang up to meet miners needs
a) Ghost Town
b) Boom Town
c) Cow Town
d) Down Town

What busness was the largest employer of people in the US durring the late 1800's
a) Mining
b) Cowboys
c) Military
d) Railroads

This person headed the Indian fighting in the west when reconstruction was over
a) Cheif Joseph
b) William Sherman
c) Bill Cody
d) George Custer

All of the following are Indian in the western US except for
a) Mohicans
b) Souix
c) Nez Perce
d) Navajo

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