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Following the Civil War, the US went on the
Gold Standard
abandoned mining towns in the West
ghost towns
young cowboys
wranglers
Cowboys on cattle drives followed what 3 trails?
the Chisholm Trail, the Sedalia Trail, and the Goodnight- Loving Trail.
What gave 160 acres of land to settlers?
Homestead Act
The decline of what in the West was very damaging to the Indians' way of life?
Buffalo herds
What 3 groups of Americans "conquered" the frontier?
miners, cowboys(cattlemen), homesteaders (farmers)
bones, hides and other parts of the animals that were not eaten
by-products
What were some members found on cattle drives?
point men, trail boss, and the wrangler.
people who illegally staked land claims in Oklahoma
sooners
silver and gold mine in Nevada
Comstock Lode
The Westerners wanted the government to use what to back its money supply?
silver and sometimes gold
____ was known as Indian Territory before it was opened to settlement.
Oklahoma
Some problems that caused trouble on cattle drives were _______ , _________, and _______
taxation by Indians, stampedes, barb wire (farm fences)
Who invented the first practical barb wire?
Joseph Glidden
required the government to buy silver
Bland-Allison Act
3 Characteristics of the Great Plains of the American West:
* Climate was extremely hot in the summer and cold in the winter.
*Home to many Indians.
* Received small amounts of rainfall each year.
After the Civil War, meatpackers learned how to ship fresh meat ___ ___.
on ice
What practical dwellings on the plains were pleasantly cool in the summer and warm in the winter
sod houses
_______ was the inexpensive postal innovation that brought mail to remote farmers of the West.
Rural Free Delivery
source of gold in the Black Hills
Homestake Mine
Most cowboys on the frontier were under the age of what?
20
Conflicts developed between
cattlemen, homesteaders, sheep herders, Indians
Because all of the hardships the settlers had to face the Plains were the ____ area of the US to be settled.
last
_____, ______, and _______ furthered industry that aided the development of the West.
Phillip Armour, Joseph Glidden,, Gustavus Swift