806 Quiz 1 - Changing Frontiers

Question 1

What did Vigilance Committees do?

Answer 1

Fight crime & rowdy behavior

Question 2

How did gold and silver discoveries affect Indians?

Answer 2

Their treaties were ignored

Question 3

People who looked for gold and silver where called?

Answer 3

Prospectors

Question 4

Many western states entered the union after being settled by what group of people?

Answer 4

Miners

Question 5

What were the original three modes of Shipping and Transportation in the west?

Answer 5

Steamship, Stagecoach, Pony Express

Question 6

Two Railroad companies that built the transcontinental Railroad

Answer 6

Union Pacific / Central Pacific

Question 7

Two groups of immigrants who worked on the railroad?

Answer 7

Chinese / Irish

Question 8

Members of Vigilance committees were called?

Answer 8

Vigilantes

Question 9

Cowboys called sheep what?

Answer 9

Woolies

Question 10

What three things eliminated the need for the open range?

Answer 10

Railroads, barbed wire, weather

Question 11

Hardships faced by settlers included:

Answer 11

Storms, poor housing, grasshoppers, freezing winters, hot dry summers

Question 12

What act promised 160 acres of land to anyone who would live on the land and improve it for 5 years?

Answer 12

Homestead Act of 1862

Question 13

What was the purpose of the Dawes Commission?

Answer 13

To finish allotting Indians their reservations in the territory

Question 14

What Act allowed the twin Oklahoma territories to enter the Union?

Answer 14

The Oklahoma Enabling Act

Question 15

What is John Deere famous for inventing?

Answer 15

The steel plow

Question 16

Who invented the reaper?

Answer 16

Cyrus McCormick

Question 17

What group of people caused a large growth in cattle ranching?

Answer 17

Civil War Veterans

Question 18

Mining towns whose business and population grew quickly were called what?

Answer 18

Boomtowns