Chapter 17

Question 1

Comstrock lode

Answer 1

Silver found in the Sierra Nevada in 1859 and claimed by Henry Comstrock produced 300 million dollars and made Nevasa a center for mining

Question 2

Why did few miners get rich

Answer 2

Ore was difficult to extract because it was to deep

Question 3

Mining towns were boomtowns then…

Answer 3

Ghost towns when the ore was gone

Question 4

Half of miners were…

Answer 4

Foreign born (Chinese)

Question 5

Lode

Answer 5

A rich vein of ore

Question 6

Vigilantes

Answer 6

Self appointed law keepers

Question 7

What did the government offer railroad companies

Answer 7

Subsidies- grants of land for money

And federal loans

Question 8

For every mile of track the railroad company got

Answer 8

10 square miles of land next to the track

Question 9

Transcontinental railroad

Answer 9

A railroad that spanned the continent

Question 10

What rare road company built a line going eastward from Sacramento California

Answer 10

Central Pacific Railroad

Question 11

What railroad company built in line going west from Omaha Nebraska

Answer 11

Union Pacific Railroad

Question 12

When was the transcontinental railroad completed

Answer 12

May 10, 1869

Question 13

Where did the two lines meet

Answer 13

Promontory Utah

Question 14

What were the effects of the transcontinental railroad

Answer 14

New towns in the west, population grew in the west, and several territories became states

Question 15

What did Guns and horses allow Europeans to do

Answer 15

Kill more and travel faster and farther

Question 16

What was the fort Laramie Treaty

Answer 16

The US government promise to protect the land of the Native Americans if they settled permanently
But they broke it

Question 17

What happened in the Sandcreek massacre

Answer 17

Col John Chivington attacked a group of Cheyennes in Colorado the Cheyennes raised a white flag but they still killed them

Question 18

What did the Sandcreek massacre do

Answer 18

Start and era of war with the natives

Question 19

What is a reservation

Answer 19

Land set aside for Native Americans to live on

Question 20

What happened at the Battle of Little Big Horn

Answer 20

Col George Custer atalked a group of siouxs and cheyennes in Montana Custer and all his men were killed

Question 21

Who were sitting bull and crazy horse

Answer 21

Native American leaders that fought being Pushed onto reservations

Question 22

How is Sitting Bull killed

Answer 22

In an uprising about the ghost dance

Question 23

What is the ghost dance

Answer 23

Native American dance used to communicate with ancestors

Question 24

What happened at the battle of wounded knee Creek

Answer 24

200 Sioux were killed as they were giving up their weapons and ended the war with natives

Question 25

What is the Dawes act

Answer 25

Law passed by Congress which stated Native American males would receive 160 acres to farm. it also set up schools for Native American children

Question 26

Why did the Dawes act fail

Answer 26

It failed because few natives became farmers. Many were now poor and depending on the government food food