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USHistoryChapter18
The Mining Booms
Question: Though outnumbered two to one in early mining boomtowns, they worked as launderesses, cooks and dance-hall entertainers. They also opened schools and churches.
Answer: Who are women.
Question: Gambling, get rich quick, get poor quick and violence.
Answer: What are downfalls of boom towns.
Question: Gold discovered here in Colorado let to the start of of miners heading West, with claims they could make $20 a day ($500 in todays dollars).
Answer: What is Pikes Peak
Question: Discovery of this large amount of Gold in the banks of the Carson River, led to the rapid growth of the mining town in Virginia City Nevada.
Answer: What is the Comstock lode.
Question: At this spot in the Utah Territory, the two segements of the Transcontinental Railroad met.
Answer: What is Promitory point.
Ranchers and Farmers
Question: In 1862 Congress passed this legislation that gave 160 acres in the Great Plains to settlers willing to live on the land for 5 years.
Answer: What is the Homestead act.
Question: This railroad marked a turning point in the US economy by expending all the way across the US.
Answer: What is the transcontinental railroad.
Question: Name four effects of the railroads.
Answer: Short traveling time, boosted industry, creation of towns, let to time zones.
Question: This bread of wild cattle in Texas resulted from the wild breeding of cattle brought over by the spanish with cattle brought by European settles.
Answer: What are long horn cattle.
Question: In 1887 the US government passed this act to address the 'percieved' problems of Indian culture: lack of Private property and a nomadic lifestyle.
Answer: What is the Dawes act.
Native American Struggles
Question: In their despair, the Sioux turned to this prophet who started the Ghost Dance ritual.
Answer: Who is Wavoka
Question: In this South Dakota Battle that marked the end of armed conflict with Native Americans, a gun accidentally going off started fighting where Americans killed 300 Lakota Souix Indians.
Answer: What is the Battle of Wounded knee.
Question: In 1867, this government organization recommended moving Indians to large reservations in Oklahoma and the Dakota territories.
Answer: The Indian Peace Commission
Question: A slang term used to refer to early plains farmers.
Answer: What are sod busters.
Question: Symbols burned into the side of cattle to identify them on the open range.
Answer: What are brands.
Farmers In Protest
Question: These people took the law into their own hands.
Answer: Vigilantes.
Question: Rock that contains precious metals or minerals.
Answer: What is ore
Question: A vein of ore inside the earth.
Answer: What is a Lode.
Question: The practice of farming in the great plains where seeds were planted deep in the ground.
Answer: What is dry farming.
Question: Mexican ranch hands from which Texas cowboys learned many skills.
Answer: varueros
Question: Long cattle drives occured on this trail from central Texas to abiline.
Answer: What is the Chisom trail.
Question: The governer of California at the time, he drove the final, Golden, spike into the Transcontinental railroad.
Answer: Who is Leland Standford.
Question: These deserted towns resulted when the Gold ran out of an area.
Answer: What are Ghost towns.
Question: Sums of money granted by the US governement to the Railroad companies to encourage rapid build out of the railroads.
Answer: What are subsidies.
Question: List four areas in which the Buffalo was important on the plains.
Answer: