Section 1 Mining and Railroads
Section 2 Native Americans Struggle to Survive
Section 3 The Cattle Kingdom
Section 4 Farming in the West
Chapter 17 All Sections
100
Miners formed groups of ________________.
What is vigilantes?
100
A thing that allowed Native Americans to carry their belongings.
What is a travois?
100
A settlement at the end of a cattle drive.
What is a cowtown?
100
A settler who acquired free land from the government.
What is a homesteader?
100
An excess quantity that is leftover.
What is a surplus?
200
This happened right after the Civil War.
What is mining in the west?
200
Three tribes were moved onto a reservation in Oklahoma.
What is the Kiowas, Comanches, and Arapahos?
200
What dangers lay ahead for cowhands during a cattle drive?
What is stampedes, swift rivers, grass fires, and thieves?
200
Gave 160 acres of land to stay on for 5 years.
What is the Homestead Act?
200
To move a heard over long distances of land.
What is a cattle drive?
300
Why did mining towns require Frontier Justice?
What is there were no marshals, courts, or jailhouses to keep criminals under control?
300
Plains Indians used this thing for useful items.
What is the buffalo?
300
Two factors that made life on the Plains hard or difficult.
What is water was scarce and crops were hard to grow?
300
Invented a machine that used a steel plow.
Who is John Deere?
300
A treaty with the Plains Nations to have them settle permanently.
What is the Fort Laramie Treaty?
400
Provide 2 effects the railroad had in the West.
What is cowtowns, rapid population growth, and new territories (Nevada, Colorado, Dakota's, Montana, and Washington).
400
What can be used for food, bones, tools, and clothing?
What is a buffalo?
400
What skills did American cowhands learn from vequeros?
What is herding cattle, learning to ride, rope, and brand cattle?
400
People believed they were Jews just like in the Bible.
What is exodusters?
400
This spanned over the continent.
What is the transcontinental railroad? 
500
How many square miles did the government give the railroads for every mile of track?
What is 10 square miles for every mile of track?
500
The wages of a cowhand they earned in one day.
What is less than $1?
500
List 3 destinations for a cattle drive.
What is Kansas? Missouri. and Wyoming?
500
A Populist that wanted silver in addition to gold as a basis for money supply for farmers.
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
500
Sodbusters used this "fuel" to stay warm.
What is buffalo manure?
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