Gold, Silver, Boomtowns
This means to remove or take out with force.
What is extract?
Extending or going across a continent.
What is transcontinental?
This is the name of a cowhand of Hispanic origin.
What is a vaquero?
This is a farming method in which farmers took steps to trap moisture in the soil.
What is dry farming?
This is an area set aside for use by Native Americans.
What is a reservation?
When boomtowns went bust they became these.
What are ghost towns?
Money or goods given to support a project that benefits the public.
What are subsidies?
The cattle market collapsed because of these three things.
What are over-grazing, falling prices, and fenced properties?
To earn ownership of land by living on it.
What is a homestead?
This population declined greatly in the late 1800s because American hunters sold hides back east, they were used to feed railroad crews, and they were hunted to weaken Native American resistance.
What is buffalo?
Gold mining in the West caused many towns to grow quickly but this actually happened.
What is did not become rich and mined for other metals?
These were created by the American Railway Association in 1883, and they were made official by Congress in 1918.
What are time zones?
These were railroad towns that were at the end of the cattle trails where ranchers would load herds onto trains.
What are cowtowns?
What was the Oklahoma Land Rush?
This conflict marked the end of armed conflict between the U.S. Government and the Native Americans.
What is Wounded Knee?
Boomtowns often did not have police or jails, which made this very common.
What is violence and crime?
This was completed on May 10, 1869.
What is the transcontinental (Pacific) railroad?
______ were essential to moving the herds and faced many dangers such as violent storms, "rustlers", and stampedes.
What are cowhands?
Congress passed this in 1862 to encourage settlement on the Great Plains.
What is the Homestead Act?
These being broken led to many violent battles between the settlers and the Native American tribes.
What are treaties?
These were towns that seemed to pop up overnight when gold or silver was found nearby.
What are Boomtowns?
The development of a country-wide rail system had these impacts.
What are industrial, economic, and societal?
The railroad expansion allowed ranchers to send this east but the job of getting this north to the trains was dangerous and the "boom" of this industry slowed.
What is cattle?
Despite many challenges, the census showed that by 1890, all territories in America had been ________.
What is settled in?
This group of people were forced off of their land, and forced onto reservations with little resources given to survive.
Who are Native Americans?