Vocab
Railroad that spanned the U.S. Continent
Transcontinental Rairoad
1887 law that distributed reservation land to individual Native American Owners
Dawes Act
Time based on calculations of the sun's passage across the sky.
Solar Time
Before the transcontinental railroad, each community had to rely on this type of time.
Solar
What brought about the use of standard time?
Solar time caused problems for people who scheduled long-distance trips.
Parts of the West that were occupied mainly by Native Americans, rather than settlers.
Frontier
Name for Pioneer farmers on the great plains
Sodbusters
The time zones devised by railroad companies
Standard Time
The Comstock Lode helped Virginia City, Nevada, become this type of town.
BOOMTOWN
Name a state that that grew rapidly and was granted statehood because of the mining boom.
Nevada, Colorado, South Dakota.
Vaquero
a policy under which the government backs every dollar with a certain amount of gold
Gold Standard
Commander of U.S. troops at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
George A Custer
This railroad, which started in Sacramento California was built east across the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
Central Pacific railroad
From whom did American cowhands learn most of their skills?
Vaqueros
English-speaking settler in the Southwest
Anglo
The top layer of prairie soil that contains thick, tightly tangled grass roots.
Sod
Characterized by moving from place to place.
Nomadic
This railroad which was started in Omaha, Nebraska, was built west across the Great Plains
Union Pacific railroad.
Which metal did William Jennings Bryan say should be free for everyone?
Silver
Sioux chief who led the attack on Custer at the battle of Little Bighorn
Sitting Bull
1862 law that offered 160 acres free to anyone who agreed to live on and improve the land for five years.
Homestead Act
Land set aside by the U.S. government for Native American tribes.
Reservation
Long drives helped make this industry more profitable.
Cattle
How did the U.S. forces respond when Sioux gathered for a Ghost Dance in 1890?
They got scared and opened Fire.