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Animals that go "moo"
"and the Emmy goes to..."
Bieber fever is fatal
Da Bears
Who invented the "sham wow?"
100
List 3 ways in which Blacks' right to vote was restricted in the South
What is poll tax, literacy test, grandfather clauses, or violence.
100
What were the Jim Crow Laws?
What are laws used to enforce segregation
100
What 2 "booms" helped transform the West?
What is Industrial and Agricultural
100
The discovery of these 2 precious minerals created the "mining boom" out West
What is gold and silver
100
What could the large companies that took over the mining businesses from the individual prospectors do that individuals could not?
What is use heavy equipment to bring mineral ores out of the ground in large quantities and gain government support by receiving cheap land
200
What linked the East to the Western part of the United States?
What is the Transcontinental Railroad
200
List 1 innovation that was brought about by the railroad.
What is air brakes on the trains themselves, refrigerated rail cars, and Time Zones were set
200
Why did many Americans move to the cities to find work during this time period?
What is the mechanization of farm equipment meant fewer people were needed to work on the farms.
200
List 2 changes that railroads created in the United States.
What is tied the Nation together, moved products and people, spurred industrial development, towns and cities grew, and it encouraged settlers to move West
200
Describe the Open Range System
What is property is not fenced in allowing livestock to graze freely.
300
What was a "Cow Town?"
What is the town cattle were driven by cowboys to so that they could be loaded onto trains and shipped to processing plants.
300
List 2 reasons why the Open Range System ended.
What is barbed wire was invented, prices for beef dropped because the supply was bigger than the demand, and severe weather led to the death of herds.
300
What did the Homestead Act of 1862 do?
What is government gave cheap land to farmers willing to farm it.
300
Who was "Pap" Singleton and what did he do?
What is a black TN businessman who helped organize the Exodusters.
300
Where was the "Promised Land" for the Exodusters?
What is Kansas and Oklahoma
400
Explain why life was so difficult on the Plains
What is little timber to build houses (sod instead), droughts, locusts all made farming and life difficult.
400
List 2 farming techniques that made life a little easier on the Plains.
What is stronger plows, barbed wire, windmills, dry-farming techniques.
400
List 1 economic conflict settlers in the West faced and 1 social conflict they faced.
What is Economic= cattle destroyed crops, sheep ruined grasses, mining runoff polluted water, control of resources disputed Social= prejudice, discrimination, ethnic tensions.
400
Describe the "last land rush of 1889" and what territory did it open up?
What is settlers lined up at a starting point somewhere on the prairie and set out to stake a claim on where they wanted to live. It opened up the Oklahoma Territory.
400
Who were "Boomers" and who were "Sooners"?
What is Boomers= settlers who lined up to stake land claims Sooners= settlers who sneaked in early to stake the best land claims.
500
What did Alfred I. DuPont develop?
What is gunpowder factories
500
What business sector did JP Morgan influence? (where did he make his $$$$)
What is banking/finance
500
What was the Bessemer Process?
What is purified iron to create steel
500
What did the TN Constitutional Convention of 1870 do?
What is revoked secession and abolished slavery
500
What TN city saw a Yellow Fever outbreak in 1873 and 1878?
What is Memphis