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What were Boom Towns
Towns that grew rapidly because of Expansion and Economic Opportunity.
What type of house did Plains Indians live in?
Teepees
What was the cattle drive?
The herding and moving of cattle over longs distances for sale.
What was the homestead act and its purpose?
An act that offered a 160 acre plot to anyone who resided on the land for 5 years. To give poor people opportunity.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
A railroad line that spanned the continent.
Food, clothing, tools, tendons could be made into thread.
What was a cow town?
A town with amenities for cattle herders.
How did railroads promote farming
What were the vigilantes?
Vigilantes were self appointed law keeps, they hunted down bandits with their own brands of justice.
During the Laramie Treaty, what did U.S officials want Natives to STOP doing?
Wandering and living nomadic lives.
True or False - Demand for the cattle dropped I the mid 1880s
true
What peoples were recruited to settle on the great plains?
United States, Ireland, Germany or Sandinavia.
What did the U.S Govt. begin to subsidize after 1860?
Railroad expansion.
Where did the Nez Perces live?
Idaho Oregon and Washington.
Joseph McCoy
What party was William Jennings Bryan
Democrat
How did the Gold Rush lead to the railroad boom?
People needed an efficient way to transport different goods across the country.
What are reservations used for?
They are land set aside for Native Americans to live on.
What was the myth of the west?
The west was a place of Violence, adventure and opportunity.
What did Farm Cooperatives do
A group of farms decided to pool their money to buy tools, seed, and other supplies at discount.