The 1860s Through 1880s Jeopardy Template

Farming & Agriculture	Indian Life	Railroads	Life on the Plains	Buffalo
100 Irrigation Systems What kind of system was developed to help water flow to crops?	100 Bureau of Indian Affairs What is the name of the organization that delt with Native American Affairs?	100 West Railroads helped people migrate in which direction?	100 Water & Trees What resources were scarce on the plains?	100 Wolves What animal would attack the Buffalo?
200 wheat What is one of the major crops in the West?	200 Native Americans Bureau of Indian AffairsWestern people forced ______ to move onto reservations.	200 Transcontinental What was the name of the railway that connected the Central and Pacific lines?	200 chunks of heavy topsoil What were sod houses made of?	200 trains People would play a game while on ______ where they would shoot at the Buffalo herds running by.
300 Bonanza Farms What is the name of farms owned by large companies?	300 Massacre at wounded knee Sitting bull had a vision of what battle?	300 Trunk Lines What is another name for major railroads?	300 Harsh Blizzards in the winter - Hot dry summers What was the climate like on the plains?	300 Native Americans and people moving to the west Disagreements on buffalo would cause wars between which people?
400 Cut wheat and tied it together What did "self binding" harvesters do?	400 Nebraska Where was the Indian Delegation from?	400 Pacific Railway Act Which act gave railroads companies land?	400 Helped farmers adapt to new land What did the US Department of Agriculture do?	400 Old Buffalo - were not healthy enough to keep up Which Buffalo would be left behind the herd?
500 Tend gardens, preserve fruits and vegetables, care for farm animals Name two jobs that farm wives had.	500 Navajo, Apache Name one Native American tribe from present day Nevada.	500 George Pullman Who made long distance rail travel more comfortable by creating sleeping and dining cars?	500 Rocky Mountains Pioneer engineers completed their stay in Sierra, Nevada and leaped across prairies of Nebraska and Colorado to the root of what mountain?	500 All of it Which parts of the buffalo would Native Americans use if they killed one?

The 1860s through 1880s

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