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100
Identify ONE railroad town to which cowboys drove their herds.
(1) Dodge City, Kansas (2) Abilene, Kansas (3) Wichita, Kansas (4) Sedalia, Missouri (5) Cheyenne, Wyoming (6) Denver, Colorado
100
List at least THREE geographic or climatic (environmental) challenges facing farmers in the trans-Mississippi West.
(1) Extreme Summer Heat (2) Prairie Fires (3) Insect Plagues (4) Blizzards / Extreme Cold (5) Tornadoes (6) Drought (7) Lack of trees (8) Lack of water (9) Human Isolation
100
What is (1) the name given to mining towns where a large number of people "rush" into the area after a mining discovery AND (2) the name given to mining towns after being abandoned.
(1) Boomtowns (2) Ghost towns
100
This was the catch-all name for discriminatory laws that separated the races in the American South.
Jim Crow Laws
100
This man invented the telephone in 1876. Revolutionized communications.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
200
The vast majority of the Western cattle were slaughtered and processed in THIS CITY.
What is Chicago?
200
The federal government encouraged many farmers to move West by means of THIS CONGRESSIONAL ACT.
What is the Homestead Act of 1862?
200
This method of mining was so environmentally destructive that it was federally outlawed for about a decade.
What is hydraulic mining?
200
Identify the (1) presidential election (names and year) and the (2) bargain that followed it led to the ending of the Reconstruction Era.
(1) Hayes-Tilden Presidential Election of 1876 (2) The Compromise of 1877
200
This businessman in the meatpacking industry combined refrigeration with railroad cars to ship perishable meats long distances.
Who is Gustavus Swift?
300
What is "the open range"?
Vast, relatively flat grassland area publicly owned by the federal government. Ranchers could graze their herds free of charge.
300
How did the Morrill Land-Grant College Act of 1862 improve farming in the West?
The federal government provided states with free land to build Agricultural & Mechanical colleges (A & M) to advance agricultural science and technology.
300
The discovery of THIS precious resource at the Comstock Lode directly led to Nevada becoming a state in 1864.
What is Silver Ore?
300
The passage of these THREE Constitutional Amendments during Reconstruction was the greatest success of Reconstruction. They abolished slavery, guaranteed citizenship rights/due process, and gave black men the right to vote, respectively.
(1) Thirteenth Amendment (abolished slavery) (2) Fourteenth Amendment (citizenship rights, due process, equality before the law) (3) Fifteenth Amendment (right to vote for black men)
300
List at least THREE inventions associated with Thomas Edison
(1) Phonograph (2) Electric generator (3) Lightbulb (4) Battery (5) Motion picture
400
List AT LEAST TWO reasons why Western cattle ranching became a booming industry in the latter half of the 19th century.
(1) American Civil War led to severe beef shortage in East (2) Growing Eastern population created more demand for beef [1 and 2 lead to rising beef prices] (3) Westward railroad construction links West and East
400
List at least THREE farm technologies (equipment OR techniques) that enhanced farming in the West in the 1800s.
(1) Steel Plows (2) Threshing Machines (3) Mechanical Reapers (4) Seed Drills (5) Steam Tractors (6) Steel Windmills (7) Dry Farming
400
Why did the demand for mining increase after the American Civil War (1861-1865)?
The INDUSTRIALIZING United States required larger amounts of resources mined from the earth.
400
List at least THREE methods by which white Southerners tried to prevent southern blacks from voting.
(1) Poll taxes (2) Literacy tests (3) Ku Klux Klan and other such groups (4) Lynching (5) Grandfather clauses included poor/illiterate whites while excluding blacks
400
What is the NAME for the economic philosophy that promotes as little government interference in the economy as possible: few taxes, no minimum wage, no government regulations on working conditions, etc.
What is Laissez-faire ('let go')
500
List AT LEAST TWO reasons why the classic Cowboy era ranching style came to an end by 1890.
(1) Farmers fenced off the open range with barbed wire. (2) Severe blizzards and droughts killed off thousands of cattle in the mid-1800s (3) The price of beef began to fall Ranching industry re-organized to be closer to rail stations.
500
List at least TWO ECONOMIC problems Western farmers experienced by the late 1800s.
(1) Falling crop prices due to international competition and oversupply of crops (2) Increasing debt problems from lost income due to falling prices and/or natural disasters (3) Banks foreclosing on mortgaged farms (4) Railroads charging high shipping fees/rates
500
List FOUR states that attained statehood as a direct result of mining discoveries.
(1) California (2) Nevada (3) Colorado (4) North Dakota (5) South Dakota (6) Montana (7) Idaho (8) Wyoming (9) Arizona
500
(1) This ex-fugitive slave from Tennessee promoted the migration of southern blacks out of the South into the West to become farmers. (2) What were these Western black farmers called?
(1) Pap Singleton and (2) the Exodusters.
500
The US was successful at industrialization for these THREE reasons.
(1) Abundant natural resources (2) Abundant human resources [labor / consumption] (3) Scientific & Technological advancements [electricity, telephones, etc.]