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Railroads & Mining
Native Americans
Cattle Kingdom
Farming
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100
What is a railroad that spans a continent from coast to coast?
Transcontinental Railroad
100
What animal provided Plains Indians with their food, clothing, and shelter?
Buffalo
100
What term means unfenced land?
Open Range
100
What act gave individuals 160 acres of land if they could stay on it and improve it for 5 years?
Homestead Act
100
What animal did Plains Indians acquire from the Spanish that allowed them to hunt the buffalo more effectively?
Horse
200
What was one danger of working on the railroad?
Explosions, falling from cliffs, avalanches, Native American attacks, etc.
200
What were limited areas set aside for Native Americans to live upon?
Reservations
200
Where did most cattle drives begin?
Southern Texas
200
What is the soil held together by the prairie grassroots of the Great Plains called?
Sod
200
The completion of the transcontinental railroad led to the settlement of what region?
The West
300
Why did railroads hire immigrants?
They provided cheap labor.
300
What term means to take on a new culture?
Assimilate
300
What transportation network was the destination of the cattle drives?
Railroad
300
Who invented the steel-tipped plow that enabled Plains farmers to cut through the tough sod of the Great Plains?
John Deere
300
During the 1600s, the Plains Indians' way of life changed because of what?
Capturing of wild horses descended from Spanish horses.
400
Describe two problems resulting from gold and silver strikes.
Pollution, poor treatment of foreign miners, Native Americans being forced off their land, etc.
400
Why were whites upset by the spread of the Ghost Dance?
They feared the Indians would unite in war on the US.
400
Give one reason why the Cattle Kingdom ended.
Harsh winters and summers in the late 1800s, economic depression, coming of farmers and fences to the open range, etc.
400
During the late 1800s barbed wire fences and sod houses were most likely found where?
Great Plains
400
Who led US soldiers in the Battle of the Little Bighorn?
George Custer
500
Why was most mining in the west taken over by large companies?
Most of the gold and silver lay deep in the ground.
500
Why were the promises of the Fort Laramie Treaty not kept?
Gold was found in Colorado.
500
What was the name of the most famous Cattle Drive trail?
Chisholm Trail
500
Who invented barbed wire?
Samuel Glidden
500
What act divided Native American reservation land into plots to be given to individual households?
Dawes Act