Section 1
The Mining Booms
Section 2
Ranchers and Farmer
Section 3
Native American Struggles
Section 4
Farmers in Protest
Vocabulary
100
The mid 1850s
When did the California Gold Rush end?
100
Longhorns
What were the cattle called?
100
Nomadic
What kind of lives did the Sioux, Comanche and Blackfeet live?
100
West and South
After the Civil War, farming expanded where?
100
To remove
What does extracting mean?
200
Henry Comstock
The Comstock Lode was named after who?
200
Veterans from the Civil War and African Americans
Who did the cowhands include?
200
Native American nations
Who were the Great Plains home to?
200
Railroad companies, Eastern manufacturers and bankers
Who did farmers blame their troubles on?
200
Vaqueros
What were Hispanic ranch hands known as?
300
Boomtowns
Where did men mostly live?
300
Spanish words used by vaqueros
Where does the language of ranchers come from?
300
The Apache War
What war broke out in the Southwest?
300
The Farmers' Alliances
What group sprang up in the West and South in the 1880s?
300
cooperatives
what is the word where farmers bought products from eachother?
400
Opened businesses or worked as laundresses, cooks or entertainers
What did women in boomtowns do?
400
Cattle drives
What did ranching replace?
400
The Dawes Act
What did th 1887 Congress pass?
400
The country's gold based currency
What did the Populists want to replace?
400
appeal to the common people
What is populism?
500
Created four time-zones
What did the American Railway Association do to help with the railroads?
500
Planting seeds deep in moist ground
What was dry farming used for?
500
Ghost Dance
What ceremony became popular wiht many western Native Americans?
500
William Jennings Bryan
Who did the Democrats choose for a presidential candidate?
500
currency
What is another word for money?
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