17-1 and 17-4 Review

Question 1

subsidy

Answer 1

Grant of land or money

Question 2

Transcontinental Railroad

Answer 2

Completed in 1869 and connected the east to the west coast. Chinese laborers were the main workforce building the railroad from the west coast through the Sierra Nevada and Rocky Mountains.

Question 3

Manifest destiny

Answer 3

Belief that whites had the right to control lands from the east to west coasts.

Question 4

vigilante

Answer 4

Self-appointed law enforcer

Question 5

Impacts of the Transcontinental Railroad

Answer 5

-New cities and town built along the tracks
-New states join the Union
-Faster and cheaper transportation of resources, crops and finished goods
-More conflicts with Native Americans
-Mass killing of bison

Question 6

homesteader

Answer 6

Settler who acquired free land offered by the government

Question 7

sodbuster

Answer 7

Farmer on the Great Plains

Question 8

Homestead Act of 1862

Answer 8

Government gave 160 acres to anyone who would live on the Great Plains for five years and improve the land.

Question 9

Tools that helped the homesteaders/sodbusters

Answer 9

-John Deere’s steel-tipped plow
-Windmills to pump water
-Harvesters and reapers
-Seed drills

Question 10

Sooners

Answer 10

People who snuck onto land before the Oklahoma land rush of 1889.

Question 11

inflation

Answer 11

General rise in prices

Question 12

grange

Answer 12

Group of farmers who met for lectures, sewing bees and other events