Vocab
going across a continent
Transcontinental
The network of ______________________ expanded between 1865 and 1890.
railroads
Many African Americans left the South and moved ______________________ in search of a better life.
West
What was the main source of food for Native Americans, people travelling the Oregon Trail, and railroad workers?
buffalo
Which group called for shorter hours for workers and a national income tax?
Populist Party
In 1883 the American Railway Association divided the country into four ______________________.
time zones
______________________ added stability to boomtowns by founding schools and churches.
Women
Hispanic men who moved westward to work as cowhands were called ______________________.
vaqueros
For most of their history, how did the Plains Native Americans meet their needs for food, clothing, shelter, and tools?
hunting buffalo
Because of low demand, farmers dropped the price of ________________ 96 cents between 1866 and the mid-1890s.
wheat
Which kinds of government financial aid and land grants paid for railroad construction?
subsidies
ghost towns
What was one of the frequent dangers on the cattle drives?
stampedes
What were tracts of land set aside for a particular group?
reservations
Populists called for ____________________ that would tax people with higher earnings more heavily.
a national income tax
Moving from place to place in a fixed pattern
Nomadic
In boomtowns, what were people called who practiced their own brand of justice without the benefit of a judge?
vigilantes
One of the factors leading to the end of the Cattle Kingdom was
the price collapse of mid-1880s.
Which dance celebrated the hoped-for day when white settlers would disappear and the buffalo would return?
Ghost dance
Who was elected president in 1896?
William McKinley
enterprise owned by and operated for the benefit of a certain group
Cooperative
The ______________________ hired Chinese laborers to work on its tracks.
Central Pacific Railroad
Which nickname was given to people who had secretly slipped across the Oklahoma border to claim land before the official Oklahoma Land Rush?
sooners
In which confrontation were more than 200 Lakota Sioux killed?
Wounded Knee
The Populist Party wanted to replace the country’s gold-based currency system with a system based on which of the following?
free silver