chapter 19 opening the west

Question 1

transcontinental railroad

Answer 1

the railroad that connected the east and west

Question 2

vaqueros

Answer 2

cowboys

Question 3

homestead act of 1862

Answer 3

encouraged people to move west by giving them cheep land and tricking them into thinking that it was this great place to live and farm when it was really not

Question 4

dawes act

Answer 4

was meant to help native Americans learn the ways of the people but instead hurt them by trying to make them learn there ways

Question 5

soddies

Answer 5

a house on the great planes made out of sod

Question 6

cowtowns

Answer 6

a town with a ton a cattle

Question 7

boomtowns

Answer 7

towns that went up where the gold and silver struck up but then were abandoned when the goods ran out

Question 8

goast towns

Answer 8

abandon towns

Question 9

union pacific

Answer 9

the comp. that built the east part of the TCRR was made up of irash immigrants

Question 10

central pacific

Answer 10

the comp. the built the west part of the TCRR they built the most and was made up of Chinese immigrants

Question 11

substitutes

Answer 11

a sum of money granted from the gov.

Question 12

land grants

Answer 12

money from the gov. for land

Question 13

standerd time zones

Answer 13

the time zones that were 2 hours behind toward different sections of the west

Question 14

cattle kingdom

Answer 14

where the cattle was expanding into lg pieces of land

Question 15

john deere

Answer 15

made the first running plow