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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: