10/20/22 Test Review

Question 1

a rich vein of gold, silver, or other valuable ore

Answer 1

Lode

Question 2

a self appointed enforcer of the law

Answer 2

Vigilante

Question 3

a railroad that stretches across a continent from coast to coast

Answer 3

Transcontinental RR

Question 4

a land grant or other financial help from the government

Answer 4

Subsidy

Question 5

the width of a train track

Answer 5

Gauge

Question 6

a system of connected railroad lines

Answer 6

Network

Question 7

to combine

Answer 7

Consolidate

Question 8

a discount

Answer 8

Rebate

Question 9

a system in which several railroad companies agreed to divide up the business in an area and set prices

Answer 9

Pool

Question 10

a huge lode of gold was found in Sierra, Nevada

Answer 10

Comstock Lode

Question 11

towns that sprang up very quickly due to the discovery of gold

Answer 11

Boomtown

Question 12

when all the gold was gone the people deserted the boomtown

Answer 12

Ghost Town

Question 13

Swedish; he designed blue jeans for miners

Answer 13

Levi Strauss

Question 14

began in Omaha, Nebraska and laid the track in a westward position

Answer 14

Union Pacific

Question 15

began in Sacramento, California and laid the track in a eastward direction

Answer 15

Central Pacific

Question 16

where the Union and Central Pacific Railroads met; May 10, 1869

Answer 16

Promontory Point

Question 17

the governor of California who laid the last rail

Answer 17

Leland Standford

Question 18

the herding and moving of cattle; usually to railroad lines

Answer 18

Cattle Drive

Question 19

a Spanish or Mexican cowhand

Answer 19

Vaquero

Question 20

a settlement that grew up at the end of a cattle trail

Answer 20

Cowtown

Question 21

the acts passed in 1862 and 1890 that provided public land for agicultural colleges

Answer 21

Morrill Acts

Question 22

the buying or selling of something in large quantities at lower prices

Answer 22

Inflation

Question 23

wild cattle that roamed in the wild

Answer 23

Longhorn

Question 24

went from Central Texas to Abilene, Kansas

Answer 24

Chisholm Trail

Question 25

invented barbed wire in 1874

Answer 25

Joseph Gliden

Question 26

plains homes made of prairie grass

Answer 26

Soddies

Question 27

name given to Plains farmers

Answer 27

Sodbuster

Question 28

the name given to thousands of African Americans who moved out west

Answer 28

Exoduster

Question 29

party of the farmers

Answer 29

Populists

Question 30

McKinely’s political strategist

Answer 30

Marcus Hanna

Question 31

Ohio, won the 1896 presidential electioin

Answer 31

McKinely

Question 32

made to help farmers purchase machinery

Answer 32

Grange

Question 33

a sled pulled by a dog or a horse

Answer 33

Travois

Question 34

the buying or selling of something in large quantities at lower prices

Answer 34

Wholesale

Question 35

a tent made by stretching buffalo skins on tall poles

Answer 35

Tepee

Question 36

a type of dried meat

Answer 36

Jerky

Question 37

an enclosure for animals

Answer 37

Corral

Question 38

a limited area of land set aside for American Indians

Answer 38

Reservation

Question 39

an amount of something, such as land distributed to a person

Answer 39

Allotment

Question 40

leader of the Lakota tribe, Black Hills of South Dakota

Answer 40

Sitting Bull

Question 41

1851, gov’t tells the Indians they can have their land

Answer 41

Fort Laramie Treaty

Question 42

led the US troops at Little Bighorn Valley

Answer 42

Col. Custer

Question 43

surrenders in Indian War; Nez Perce tribe

Answer 43

Chief Joseph

Question 44

leader of Apache

Answer 44

Geronimo

Question 45

“A Century of Dishonor”

Answer 45

Helen Hunt Jackson

Question 46

Indians must be Americanized, become citizens of the US and were forced to live an alien life

Answer 46

Dawes Act

Question 47

religious ceremony in which the Plains Indians prayed to the Great Spirit Wovoka, in order to bring the buffalo back

Answer 47

Ghost Dance