10/20 Chapter 10 Lessons 1-3

Question 1

a rich vein of gold or silver between layers of rock

Answer 1

lode

Question 2

self-appointed law enforcers who took the law into their own hands

Answer 2

Vigilante

Question 3

a railroad that stretches across a continent fro coast to coast

Answer 3

Transcontinental RR

Question 4

financial aid or a land grant from the government

Answer 4

Subsidy

Question 5

the width of a train track

Answer 5

gauge

Question 6

a system of connected lines that were standardized

Answer 6

network

Question 7

to combine together

Answer 7

consolidate

Question 8

discounts

Answer 8

rebate

Question 9

a system where a group of farmers put the money together and shared supplies

Answer 9

pool

Question 10

1858 a huge lode of gold was found in Sierra Nevada

Answer 10

Comstock Lode

Question 11

towns that sprang up quickly as a result of gold being discovered

Answer 11

Boomtown

Question 12

boomtowns deserted by people after the gold was gone

Answer 12

Ghost town

Question 13

mad a fortune for designing sturdy pants for miners called jeans

Answer 13

Levi Strauss

Question 14

began in Omaha, Nebraska and laid the track in a westward direction, hired immigrants from Ireland and Mexico as well as African Americans.

Answer 14

Union Pacific

Question 15

began in Sacramento California and laid the track in an eastward direction, hired immigrants from China

Answer 15

Central Pacific

Question 16

My 10th 1869 a city where the Union and Central Pacific met.

Answer 16

Promontory Point

Question 17

governor of California who laid the last rail that connected the two Railroads

Answer 17

Leland Stanford

Question 18

the herding and moving of cattle, usually to railroad lines

Answer 18

Cattle drive

Question 19

a cowboy that was usually Mexican American, African American, or Native American

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 agricultural colleges.

Answer 21

Morrill Acts

Question 22

the buying of something in large quantities at lower prices

Answer 22

wholesale

Question 23

a rise in prices and a decrease in the value of money

Answer 23

inflation

Question 24

wild cattle that roamed in the wild brought over by the Spanish and Mexicans

Answer 24

Longhorn

Question 25

the trail from central Texas to Abilene, Kansas

Answer 25

Chisholm Trail

Question 26

invented barbed wire in 1874 used to corral catttle

Answer 26

Joseph Glidden

Question 27

plains homes made of prairie grass

Answer 27

soddies

Question 28

a farmer on the Great Plains in the late 1800s

Answer 28

Sodbuster

Question 29

the thousands of African Americans who moved out West

Answer 29

Exodusters

Question 30

a party of farmers with demands fro the government

Answer 30

populists

Question 31

the political strategist for William Mckinley

Answer 31

Marcus Hanna

Question 32

the 1896 Republican president from Canton Ohio

Answer 32

Mckinley

Question 33

1867 it was a national group of farmers that helped eachother access supplies.

Answer 33

Grange

Question 34

a sled pulled by a dog or horse

Answer 34

Travois

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 Native Americans

Answer 38

Reservation