Mining and Railroads
Who was the most likely to become rich on the mining frontier?
a Storekeeper
To gather or move together in a large group is called what?
Swarm
Under the homestead Act of 1862, free land was given away to who?
Rain, snow, sleet, and hail are all forms of what?
Preciptation
Rock from which metal can be obtained
ore
In California's rush into the Rocky Mountains, many gold-seekers yelled out what?
"Pikes Peak or Bust!"
On the long drive, cowboys worried most about the danger of what?
Stampedes
lightning, thunder, even a tiny sound could frighten the cattle in to running in a uncontrollable mass.
Why did settlers on the plains build sod houses?
On the plains there were few trees from which to build wooden houses
Who said, "Go West, young man, and grow up with the country?"
Horace Greeley
To declare ownership of something, such as land
Stake a clame
Who helped build the transcontinental railroad?
Immigrants
Name two to three reasons for the end of the great age of the cowboy?
1) Two fierce winters and a hot, dry summer led ranchers to pen in their cattle.
2) Farmers moved in and took up much of the land.
3)Many people the east began to raise their own cattle.
Ranchers moved farther north and were claoser to the railroad
What three inventions helped people farm the plains?
Barbed wire, steel plows, and dry farming methods
A census measures what?
The number of people or population.
A system of buying now and paying later
credit
What is the definition of "Transcontinental"
Across a continent
Ranchers drove their cattle from Texas to Abilene, to Kansas, because
from there, the cattle could be shipped by railroad to Chicago and markets in the East.
What caused the worst disaster faced by farmers on the Great Plains?
Swarming grasshoppers
Two well-known outlaws of the West were who?
Jesse James and Billy the Kid
Definition of Graze
Definition of homestead
To eat grass, crops, and other plants in a field
A home and the land surrounding it
The harsh "Vigilante Justice." also known as frontier justice, of the mining camps developed because there were no...
There were no police
Land where cattle roam freely is called what?
Open range
Name two to three reasons for the settling of the Great Plains?
1) Wars between sheep herders and cattle ranchers
2) free land offered through the Homestead Act of 1862
3)cheap land advertised and sold by the railroads
What was Seward's Folly?
The purchase of Alaska
this turned out to be a very wise purchase
A forma agreement between two or more groups, especially countries
Treaty