Show:
Indians
Western Land
Cattle Boom
Mining Boom
Anything
100
Who was the leader of the Sioux?
Sitting Bull
100
The Homestead Act allowed any citizen or intended citizen to select 160 acres if they stayed on it for how long?
5 years
100
What is it called when cattle are moved across long distances?
Cattle Drive
100
What is Hydraulic Mining?
It is where water shot at high pressure, which ripped away gravel and dirt to expose the minerals beneath.
100
What tribe did Geronimo lead?
The Apache
200
Who won the Battle of Little Bighorn?
The Sioux led by Sitting Bull
200
What are Exodusters?
African American settlers who went west to avoid violence of the South.
200
Who invented barbed wire, and how did it change farming in the West?
Joseph Glidden, it stopped open range farming
200
What type of mining involved sinking deep shafts to obtain ore locked in veins of rocks?
Hard Rock Mining
200
Where would cowboys go after long cattle drives and what would they do there?
They would go to the saloon and drink, gamble, and meet women.
300
What is the Wovoka?
An Indian ghost dance.
300
What kind of houses were built using top soil?
Sod houses
300
Why did cowboys dislike sheep ranching?
They ate the grass down to the root.
300
Who purchased Alaska and how much did he pay per acre?
William H. Seward paid 2 cents per acre.
300
What was the cattle glut?
Where supply exceeded demand, forcing the price of cattle to crash from $35 a head to $8.
400
Who led the Nez Perce Indians
Chief Joseph
400
Why did people use buffalo manure to build with?
Because there were not enough trees to use to build with.
400
Name two reasons the Texas Longhorn a useful cattle.
They could travel a long distance with little water and they were immune to Texas fever.
400
Name three things that families helped change when they came to the mining towns.
Families brought stability and transformed temporary towns into permanent communities. Families brought law and order, making towns safer. Families established churches, newspapers, schools, and cultural establishments.
400
What was the town located along a railroad where brokers bought cattle to ship east on railroad cars.
Railhead
500
Dawes General Allotment Act required that Indian families receive an allotment of reservation land for farming. How much land were they given?
160 acres
500
Name four things that made it difficult to farm in the Western Lands.
poor housing (sod) blizzards and cold weather droughts insects prairie fires backbreaking work lack of trees
500
What year was the severe weather that killed many of the cattle? Also, what percent of the cattle was killed?
1885-1886 winter, 90% of cattle herds died.
500
Why did big businesses start to takeover the mining in the West?
It was expensive to mine the deep, less accessible deposits. Technology rather than luck required to locate deposits. Technology changed mining by creating deep-rock mining shafts where working conditions were unsafe and unpleasant.
500
Which act gave lands to railroad companies to develop a railroad line linking the East to the West coasts.
The Pacific Railway Act