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Following the Civil War, the United States went on the _____ Standard
Gold
The decline of the ______ of the West was very damaging to the Indians’ way of life
buffalo herds
_______ source of gold in the Black Hills
Homestake Mine
______abandoned mining towns in the West
Ghost towns
Most cowboys on the frontier were under the age of
20
_________ was the silver and gold mine in Nevada
Comstock Lode
_______ required the government to buy silver
Bland-Allison Act
After the Civil War, meatpackers learned how to ship fresh meat on ____
ice
young cowboys
Wranglers
Some problems that likely caused trouble on cattle drives were _________, _________, and __________
taxation by Indians, stampedes, and farm fences
__________ invented the first practical barbed wire
Joseph Glidden
________ inexpensive postal innovation that brought mail to remote farmers of the West
Rural Free Delivery
Because of all of the hardships the settlers had to face, the Plains were the _________ area of the United States to be settled
last
Cowboys on cattle drives followed the __________, _______________, and _______________
Chisholm Trail, the Sedalia Trail, and the Goodnight-Loving Trail
Some members found on a cattle drive were the ________, ____________, and ___________
point man, the trail boss, and the wrangler
__________ were practical dwellings on the plains. They were pleasantly cool in the summer and warm in the winter
Sod houses
_________ illegally staked land claims in Oklahoma
Sooners
The 3 groups of Americans who “conquered” the frontier were the _________
miners, the cowboys(cattlemen), and the homesteaders(farmers)
________ gave 160 acres to settlers
Homestead Act
The Westerners wanted the government to use ______ and ______ to back its money supply
silver, sometimes gold
Some characteristics of the Great Plains of the American West:
* climate was extremely hot in the summer and cold in the winter
* it was home to many Indians
* it received only small amounts of rainfall each year
________ bones, hides, and other parts of animals that were not eaten
By-products
____________ sold meat to the Union soldiers during the Civil War. He built a larger and efficient meatpacking plant in Chicago
Philip Armour
______ was known as Indian Territory before it was opened to settlement
Oklahoma
Conflicts developed between the cattlemen and the __________, _____________, and ______________
homesteaders, sheep herders, and the Indians