Social Studies

What's the area from the Missouri River to the Rocky Mountains/

Who lent railroad companies millions of dollars?

What's the railroad that spanned the U.S continent?

Where did the Central Pacific build at and go East?

Who began building at opposite ends?

What brought settlers to the frontier?

Journey that takes cattle by foot to a railway

Spanish term for cowhand

English-Speaking settler in the Southwest

Town that experiences sudden growth in population or economic activity

Deposit of mineral buried in the rock

Laws that passed by Southern states that limited the freedom of formerly enslaved people

Prospectors by the thousands rushed to the West to search for what?

(Blank) sprang up near the com-stock lode

(Blank) rapidly gained statehood

Who faced lung problems, dust, cave ins, and very dangerous conditions?