Chapter 11 review

Question 1

Placer mining

Answer 1

Extract shallow deposits or ore

Question 2

Comstock Lode

Answer 2

Load of silver

Question 3

Why didn’t Americans think cattle ranches were practical at first?

Answer 3

Eastern cattle could not survive on tough prairie grass

Question 4

Chisholm Trail

Answer 4

Cowboys used this trail to drive cattle to railway for sale

Question 5

Why did ranchers see barbed wire as a threat at first

Answer 5

kept the herds from roaming freely

Question 6

Homestead Act-how can they get land

Answer 6

live on it for 5 years

Question 7

What is dry farming?

Answer 7

Plant seeds deep in ground where there is enough moisture for them to grow

Question 8

How did farmers try to survive after the glut of wheat on the world market caused prices to drop?

Answer 8

mortgaging their land

Question 9

Dawes Act

Answer 9

Selling land and building trust of money for native americans

Question 10

Quartz mining

Answer 10

Used after the ore at the surface dwindled

Question 11

Dime novel material came from where

Answer 11

Cowboys exaggerated tales of daring

Question 12

Results of fencing in the open range

Answer 12

Use European breeds, switch to Ranch hands, end long drives

Question 13

Why did wheat have an advantage on the Great Plains?

Answer 13

Could withstand drought better then any other crop

Question 14

Hardships on the Great Plains

Answer 14

fire

Question 15

Cheyenne came to Sand Creek to what?

Answer 15

negotiate

Question 16

Why did the army encourage white hunters to kill buffalo

Answer 16

To force natives back onto reservations

Question 17

Why did the confrontation at Wounded Knee occur?

Answer 17

Continued to perform ritual

Question 18

Black Kettle

Answer 18

leader of the Cheyenne who were massacred at Sand Creek

Question 19

John Chivington

Answer 19

Commander who attacked Cheyenne at Sand Creek

Question 20

Little Crow

Answer 20

Chief who led the Dakota Sioux uprising in Minnesota

Question 21

William Fetterman

Answer 21

Leader of the army detachment wiped out by the Lakota Sioux in Wyoming

Question 22

Sitting Bull

Answer 22

Lakota Sioux chief killed at Wounded Knee

Question 23

Crazy Horse

Answer 23

Lakota Sioux religious leader who lured army detachment into an ambush in Wyoming

Question 24

George Custer

Answer 24

Commander who battled the Lakota Sioux at Little Big Horn

Question 25

Chief Joseph

Answer 25

Nez Perce Chief who surrendered

Question 26

Range wars

Answer 26

Occurred when farmers blocked cattle trails

Question 27

Virginia City

Answer 27

Boomtown near Comstock load

Question 28

Sedalia

Answer 28

Destination for first cattle thrive

Question 29

Barbed wire

Answer 29

Invention that ended Cowboy lifestyle

Question 30

Henry Comstock

Answer 30

Prospector who staked a claim at 6 mile Canyon, Nevada

Question 31

Abilene

Answer 31

Destination for those using Chisholm trail

Question 32

Frontier

Answer 32

Closed with rapid settlement of West

Question 33

Helen Hunt Jackson

Answer 33

Rider who sparked Discussion of better treatment for NA

Question 34

Helen Hunt Jackson

Answer 34

Rider who sparked Discussion of better treatment for NA

Question 35

Vigilance committees

Answer 35

Self appointment law enforcers

Question 36

long drive

Answer 36

Journey across plains to bring cattle to railroad shipping centers

Question 37

Denver

Answer 37

Supply point for mining areas in Rocky Mountains

Question 38

Longhorn

Answer 38

Cattle that roamed wild in grass lands in Texas