Railroads
The first railroad to enter Montana; connecting the transcontinental railroad to Butte.
What is the Utah and Northern?
Gave Congress the power to survey reservation lands and assign tracts of land to individual tribal members.
What is the Dawes Act?
This copper king desired Anaconda to be the state capital.
Who is Marcus Daly?
First female to be elected to Congress.
Who is Jeannette Rankin?
Speech or conduct that encourages rebellion against the government.
What is sedition?
By 1900 this railroad was the biggest landowner in Montana.
What is the Northern Pacific?
One of the goals of the Dawes Act was to ___________ or be absorbed into the majority culture.
What is forced assimilation?
The political corruption of this Montanan copper king helped helped lead to the passage of the 17th Amendment.
Who is William Andrews Clark?
Someone who crossed a picket line.
Who is a "scab"?
Created to recruit soldiers, encourage farmers to increase food production, and increase public support for the war.
What is the Montana Council of Defense?
This railroad received no land grants but was instead financed wealthy investors and the of James J. Hill.
What is the Great Northern Railway?
The Dawes Act violated tribal ____________, or the right to self-govern.
What is sovereignty?
Augustus Heinze took advantage of the ________________ which stated that the owner of a mining claim had the right to follow that vein no matter where it led - even if it trespassed into other claims.
What is the Apex Law?
Passed in 1906, this law allows voters to establish and pass laws they want, even if the legislature refuses to pass them.
What is the initiative?
The worst disaster in hard-rock mining history?
What is the Granite Mountain Mine Disaster? (or Speculator Mine Disaster)
For every mile of main line the company built in Montana, the Northern Pacific was given 40 square miles of land to use develop, sell, or lease. The giving of free land by the federal government to corporations is called:
What is a land grant?
Whereby one party agrees to hold the title to the property for the benefit of another party.
What is trust land?
"The Company" respond to Heinze tying them up in hundreds of lawsuits by doing this.
The Great Shutdown (1903)
The year that Montanans gave women the right to vote (6 years before national suffrage).
What is 1914?
The Anaconda Company's system of requiring a ______________ before a miner could get work.
What is a rustling card?
This Northern Pacific helped to create this national park by lobbing members of Congress.
What is the Northern Pacific?
Approval by this government entity is required for nearly all land use decisions, such as selling, leasing or business development.
What is the Department of Interior?
In 1915, the Amalgamated merged all of the companies it controlled into a single company called:
What is the Anaconda Copper Mining Company.
Frank Little represented this union.
Who are the Wobblies? (or Industrial Workers of the World)
German textbooks from the school library were piled in the middle of Main Street of this town, and burned while the crowd sang "The Star-Spangled Banner"
Where is Lewistown?