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Boomtowns
Ranchers and Farmers
Struggles
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Vocabulary
100
The discovery that was one of the world's richest deposits of silver ore near Carson River.
What is Comstock Lode?
100
The herding of cattle for a thousand miles to meet the railroads.
What is the Long Drive?
100
A Sioux military leader, who led his troops into a deadly trap.
Who is Crazy Horse?
100
The first farmers organization.
What is National Grange?
100
Ordinary people that punished criminals
Who are vigilantes?
200
The railroad that would span the continent and connect the coasts.
What is the transcontinental?
200
When the government encouraged people to live in the Plains by giving them 160 acres for ten dollars.
What is the Homestead Act?
200
A leader of the Lakota Sioux who attempted to control the Sioux.
Who is Sitting Bull?
200
The network of organizations that sprang up in the 1880s.
What is the Farmers Alliances?
200
Hispanic ranch hands.
What are vaqueros?
300
A governor that tied the two railroads together.
Who is Leland Stanford?
300
A new way of farming, by planting seeds deep in moist ground.
What is dry farming?
300
The Apache leader that fled to Mexico during the 1880s.
Who is Geronimo?
300
The 36 year old, known as the Great Commoner.
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
300
Plain farmers
What are sodbusters?
400
Inventions that allow the railroads to pull longer and heavier trains.
What are air brakes and new locomotive technology?
400
The name African Americans gave themselves from the Story of the Jews escaping from slavery.
What are Exodusters?
400
What congress passed to remove what white men thought of as the weaknesses of Native American life.
What is the Dawes Act?
400
The republican who opposed free silver.
Who is William McKinley?
400
Land for Native Americans.
What are reservations?
500
What miners exchange gold dust for this.
What are bank notes?
500
Cared for children, sewed clothing, make candles, and cooked and preserved food.
What are women's jobs on the farm?
500
The creek where the armed conflict ended.
What is Wounded Knee?
500
This helps pioneers overcome the harsh realities of farm life.
What is new technology?
500
Appeal to the common people.
What is populism?