Terms
Towns that developed almost overnight
Boomtowns
What are abandoned boomtowns called?
"Ghost Towns"
Spanning across the continent
Transcontinental
Nickname for people who went into Oklahoma too soon during the Oklahoma Land Rush
"Sooners"
Most populated state in the US
California
Ceremony dedicated a day when settlers would disappear and the buffalo would return
Ghost Dance
The nomadic lifestyle of the Plains Indians was mostly centered around what?
The Buffalo
Tracts of land set aside for Native Americans
Reservations
Apache warrior of the South West that eventually surrendered to the US Army
Geronimo
What day is Thanksgiving on this year?
November 28th
The herding of cattle 1,000 miles or more to reach railroads
Long Drives
List a factor that contributed to the end of the cattle kingdom.
Expansion of the railroad, the invention of barbed wire, ranching
Financial aid and land grants from the government
Subsidies
What is assimilation?
The process of taking in and fully understanding information or ideas.
What year did Mr. Snyder graduate high school?
2019
The thousands of African Americans that migrated from the southern states to Kansas in the late 1870’s
Exodusters
Who was mostly responsible for building the Transcontinental Railroad?
Union Pacific relied on Irish and African American workers and the Central Pacific relied on Chinese laborers
Plains farmers
Sodbusters
What event occurred in 1868 along the Little Bighorn River in present-day Montana?
Sioux and Cheyenne warriors defeated a US army unit led by LT. Col. George Custer
Amount of electoral college votes it takes to win the presidency
270
Aimed to turn native people into farmers and, over time, American citizens
Dawes Act
What were the goals of the Populist Party?
Claimed that the government should own the railroads and telegraph lines
Limit the president and the vice president to a single term
Networks of organizations that grew in the West and the South in the 1880’s
Farmers Alliances
What effects did the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad have on America?
Divided the country into 4 time zones, brought ranchers and farmers to the west, united different regions of the country
What event caused the US to get involved in WWII?
Pearl Harbor