Vocabulary
to withdraw
secede
Before the railroad life was?
What is the prices of goods were high moving with freighters used carts that were slow?
Present-day Arizona was first part of what territory?
What is New Mexico?
What was the Long Walk?
What is a walk made by the Navajo by the U.S. government from their homes to reservations?
What industries helped the Arizona Territory grow?
What are mining, farming, and ranching?
a war between people of the same country
What is civil war
What are goods moved more quickly and at a cheaper cost?
People could now travel across the country.
Why did Arizona want to become its own territory?
What is it did not feel that they were treated unfairly by the government?
What is to stop attacks on settlers moving west to the Arizona territory?
Ways people traveled to the Arizona Territory
What are stagecoaches, wagon trains, steam boats, and railroad trains?
the moving of goods
What is freighting?
What was the name of the first railroad company that reached the Arizona Territory?
What is the Southern Pacific Railroad?
What is a town that grew quickly around a mine?
What is a Boom Town?
Give examples of why the Long walk was a bad experience.
What is
lack of food and water
lack of warm clothes
lived with their enemies
a miner who looks for minerals in the ground
What is prospectors?
What was the name of the second railroad company that reached the Arizona Territory?
What is the Santa Fe Railroad?
Why did prospectors begin looking for gold in the Arizona Territory?
What is it became harder to find gold in California?
a region governed by the United States but not given full rights as a state
What is a territory?
Who built the railroads?
Who are immigrants from many countries?
What was the richest gold mine in the Arizona Territory?
What is the Vulture Mine?