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100
Where was the “Indian territory”?
PRESENT DAY OKLAHOMA
100
How could ranchers identify their cattle on the open range?
BRANDS
100
How many cows moved north from Texas from the late 1860s to the mid-1880s?
5 MILLION +
100
What is the Spanish word for a cowhand?
VAQUERO
100
Where did longhorns come from?
Texas
200
How much were $3 steers worth in Sedalia, Missouri?
$40
200
How did the government encourage settlement on the plains in 1862?
HOMESTEAD ACT
200
How far west had the Missouri Pacific RR come by 1865?
Kansas City, MO
200
What animal was the biggest threat to homesteaders’ crops?
GRASSHOPPERS
200
How many African Americans had moved to Kansas by 1881?
40,000
300
Why did African-Americans leave the South after 1877?
END OF RECONSTRUCTION AND FEDERAL PROTECTION
300
What trail to Texas cattle to Abilene, Kansas?
CHISHOLM
300
What are “sodbusters”?
PRAIRIE FARMERS
300
What is a rustler?
CATTLE [LIVESTOCK] THIEF
300
Where were most of the markets for Texas beef located?
NORTHERN /EASTERN INDUSTRIAL CITIES
400
What caused cattle prices to fall, bringing an end to the “Cattle Kingdoms”?
TOO MANY CATTLE
400
What did the 1890 census say about the frontier?
GONE
400
What is the difference between a “Boomer” and a “Sooner”?
WAITED FOR SIGNAL; LEFT TO SOON
400
How could a settler get 160 acres free from the government?
$10 FILING FEE, LIVE ON IT FOR FIVE YEARS [AND MAKE IMPROVEMENTS]
400
What percent of Wyoming and Colorado homestead claims were filed by women?
12%
500
What women could/could not file homestead claims?
SINGLE/WIDOWS COULD; MARRIED COULD NOT
500
What are “Exodusters”?
AFRICAN AMERICAN EX-SLAVES WHO MOVED OUT OF SOUTH TO KANSAS
500
What are three factors that led to the settling of the Great Plains by farmers in the 1870s?
RRs MADE JOURNEY CHEAP/EASY; FREE LAND; ABOVE –AVERAGE RAINFALL IN 1870S
500
What are three inventions that helped farmers be successful on the plains?
STEEL PLOW, BARBED WIRE, WINDMILL
500
How did the railroads get so many Europeans to come to the US as homesteaders?
ADVERTISING
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