10/20/22 Test Review Flashcards
a rich vein of gold, silver, or other valuable ore
Lode
a self appointed enforcer of the law
Vigilante
a railroad that stretches across a continent from coast to coast
Transcontinental RR
a land grant or other financial help from the government
Subsidy
the width of a train track
Gauge
a system of connected railroad lines
Network
to combine
Consolidate
a discount
Rebate
a system in which several railroad companies agreed to divide up the business in an area and set prices
Pool
a huge lode of gold was found in Sierra, Nevada
Comstock Lode
towns that sprang up very quickly due to the discovery of gold
Boomtown
when all the gold was gone the people deserted the boomtown
Ghost Town
Swedish; he designed blue jeans for miners
Levi Strauss
began in Omaha, Nebraska and laid the track in a westward position
Union Pacific
began in Sacramento, California and laid the track in a eastward direction
Central Pacific
where the Union and Central Pacific Railroads met; May 10, 1869
Promontory Point
the governor of California who laid the last rail
Leland Standford
the herding and moving of cattle; usually to railroad lines
Cattle Drive
a Spanish or Mexican cowhand
Vaquero
a settlement that grew up at the end of a cattle trail
Cowtown
the acts passed in 1862 and 1890 that provided public land for agicultural colleges
Morrill Acts
the buying or selling of something in large quantities at lower prices
Inflation
wild cattle that roamed in the wild
Longhorn
went from Central Texas to Abilene, Kansas
Chisholm Trail
invented barbed wire in 1874
Joseph Gliden
plains homes made of prairie grass
Soddies
name given to Plains farmers
Sodbuster
the name given to thousands of African Americans who moved out west
Exoduster
party of the farmers
Populists
McKinely’s political strategist
Marcus Hanna
Ohio, won the 1896 presidential electioin
McKinely
made to help farmers purchase machinery
Grange
a sled pulled by a dog or a horse
Travois
the buying or selling of something in large quantities at lower prices
Wholesale
a tent made by stretching buffalo skins on tall poles
Tepee
a type of dried meat
Jerky
an enclosure for animals
Corral
a limited area of land set aside for American Indians
Reservation
an amount of something, such as land distributed to a person
Allotment
leader of the Lakota tribe, Black Hills of South Dakota
Sitting Bull
1851, gov’t tells the Indians they can have their land
Fort Laramie Treaty
led the US troops at Little Bighorn Valley
Col. Custer
surrenders in Indian War; Nez Perce tribe
Chief Joseph
leader of Apache
Geronimo
“A Century of Dishonor”
Helen Hunt Jackson
Indians must be Americanized, become citizens of the US and were forced to live an alien life
Dawes Act
religious ceremony in which the Plains Indians prayed to the Great Spirit Wovoka, in order to bring the buffalo back
Ghost Dance
