Mining and Railroads
These were created to make rail service safer and more reliable
time zones
This new tough breed of cattle developed when some escaped and survived in the wild
longhorns
This word means going across a continent
What is Transcontinental
Gambling
What is the name of the act that offered 160 acres of land to families that paid a $10 filling fee and lived on the land for 5 years?
The Homestead Act
Rail road companies persuaded people to settle out west for this reason
so they could get more business for the companies
What are the 3 dangers cowhands faced on long drives?
Violent storms
stampeeds
rustlers
a trip of serval hundred miles on which ranchers led their cattle to railroads in distant markets is called a
Long Drive
Boomtowns were made up mostly of who?
Men
Life on the plains were not easy. What are 4 challenges they faced in the summer/spring?
Excessive rainfall
drought
grasshoppers
brushfires
In 1859, one of the worlds richest deposits of silver bearing ore was found in what present day State?
Nevada
Overgrazed land
failing prices
fenced in land
a region in which the same standard time is used
What is a Time Zone
When all the ore was gone people left and boomtowns became these
ghost towns
Life on the plains were not easy. What are 2 challenges they faced in the winter?
Deep snow that trapped families and animals
Strong Winds
When gold and silver disappeared they began mining for these 3 other metals.
copper, lead, zinc
This was formed in the 1860s in Sedalia, Missouri to help ranchers in Texas.
The Missouri Pacific Railroad
A cowhand of Hispanic Origin
what is a Vaquero
Boomtowns were lawless towns so citizens would take the law into their own hands. These people would capture and punish suspected wrong doers.
sodbusters
This is the place where the Central and Union Pacific railroads met in the Utah Territory
Promontory Summit in Utah Territory
Many cowhands where made up of these two groups of people?
Civil War vets
African Americans
A word used for the government giving large companies financial aid or land grants
What are Subsidies
Woman in Boomtowns where worked as these three things
1. opened businesses, schools & churches
2. cooks
3. entertainers
A farming method that depends on plowing after every rain fall and trapping moisture in the soil in dry, non irrigated land
dry farming