Unit 1
What were important to building western railroads?
What are Land Grants
What provided a good source of meat for eastern cities?
Longhorn Cattle
The migration of White settlers into the Great Plains was ________ to the Plains Indians.
What is Detrimental.
Each mile of track allowed the railroad company to receive what?
What are low interest loans.
Narrow Gauge is 4 feet, 8 1/2 inches from rail to rail.
False - Standard Gauge
What was the railroad running west from Iowa, built by Irish laborers?
What is the Union Pacific.
What type of mining was used to find gold?
What is Hard Rock.
The killing of the _________ changed the nomadic character of the Plains Indians.
What are the bison.
What was the earliest occupation of most Plains Indians?
What is agriculture.
The eighty-niners are miners who came from Colorado in 1859
False - Fifty-niners
What was the railroad running east from California, built mostly by Chinese laborers.
What is the Central Pacific Railroad.
What were most mines eventually controlled by?
What are mining corporations
What was done to punish the militia after the Chivington massacre?
They were not punished.
The growing of what crop became popular along the northern rivers of the Great Plains?
What is wheat
Boom towns are mining towns which sprung up around new strikes.
True
Where was the site of the first transcontinental railroad?
What is Promontory Point, Utah.
The Homestead Act was one of the two main sources of land for the settlers in the Great Plains. What was the second?
What is land purchased from the railroads.
Who administered the Native American policy during peace time?
Who is the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
What massacre took place on the Bozeman Trail?
What is the Fetterman Massacre.
Beef wars occured when homesteaders put up fences on or near the open range.
False - range war
The transcontinental railroads were built because________
People desired to connect California with the eastern states.
Regulations passed by the citizen committees in mining towns became what?
What is the basis of mining codes.
What were the 3 distinct federal policies toward the Plains Indians?
What is relocation, assimilation, and eradication.
What advantage did Nomadic tribes have over stationary tribes?
They were not exposed to the diseases of white people.
The Great Plains was once called the Great American Desert.
True