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100
What type of houses did common people live in?
They lived in sod houses.
100
What is Comstock Lode? Who was it discovered by?
Founder was Henery Comstock, Comstock is Fine. A deposit of gold and silver found in nevada that lured in many people to the west.
100
What was the name of the railroad that stretched accross the U.S.A?
The Transcontinental Railroad
100
What are two descriptions of cowboys as seen in Hollywood?
Tall, rugged, heroic, Anglo-Saxon.
100
What is the most popular cattle breed?
longhorn
200
What type of clothing did common men and women usually wear?
Men wore overalls, and women wore dresses and bonnets.
200
What were the most valuable natural resources?
What is Gold and Silver
200
What was the name of the service that delivered news to the west?
The Pony Express.
200
The life of a cowboy was difficult. Sometimes they had to work up to ___ hours a day.
Cowboys had to work up to 18 hours a day.
200
What organization supported farmers needs and was founded by Hunson Kelly?
National Grange
300
What were some types of entertainment on the farm (name 3)?
Card games, reading, sharing tall tales, poetry, rodeos, musical instruments, dances, and quilting.
300
What started the sprouting of boomtowns in the West?
What is The finding of the Comstock Lode.
300
In 1890, how many miles of train track was laid?
What is 199,000
300
Name one of the three important women of the West we discussed.
Lizzie Johnson Williams, Martha Cannary (Calamity Jane), or Ellen Liddy Watson (Cattle Kate).
300
The farmers income decreased to the cause of what?
overproduction and/or lower prices of crops
400
Workers who took care of the ranchers’ cattle, tended to horses, and went on cattle drives.
Who were Cowboys?
400
How much money was mined out of the Comstock Lode?
What is What is more than $500,000,000
400
Which two companies raced to construct the Transcontinental Railroad?
Union Pacific & Central Pacific
400
Cattle towns were regulated and governed strictly, so that fights rarely broke out. True or False.
True.
400
Name the two acts created and state one of their meaning?
The morrill act granted fore than 17 million acres to the states. The Homestead Act gave government-owned lad to small farmers.
500
What where childrens’ chores (name 3)?
Helped on the farm, helped cook and clean, the girls helped the mom knit and the boys helped the dad with the tougher outdoor chores.
500
What were the ways that the miners died in the mines?(name 3)
workers suffered with lung diseases, and killed by cave-ins, fires, unsafe equipment, and underground flooding.
500
What is the golden spike and where was it placed?
The golden spike was a golden spike that was placed when the two railroads met. They met at Promontory, Utah.
500
What percent of cowboys were African American?
Approximately 25% of cowboys were African American.
500
Name two of the four people there is to blame for farmers losing their jobs.
Railroad owners, Businesspeople, wholsesale brokers, grain buyers.