Chapter 3

Question 1

Pike’s Peak

Answer 1

gold found there in 1858

Question 2

transcontinental RR companies

Answer 2

Union Pacific & Central Pacific

Question 3

free land to settlers

Answer 3

Homestead Act of 1862; 160 acres

Question 4

Dawes Act

Answer 4

break up reservations; end tribal identification

Question 5

Cattle Kingdom collapse

Answer 5

too many cattle; overgrazing; falling prices

Question 6

Red Cloud

Answer 6

Sioux leader in Fetterman Massacre

Question 7

National Grange

Answer 7

farmers’ organization; social, education

Question 8

Chisolm Trail

Answer 8

used for cattle drives from Texas to Kansas

Question 9

Great Plains

Answer 9

location of largest Native American reservations

Question 10

Chief Joseph

Answer 10

Nez Perce leader; “I will fight no more forever”

Question 11

Colorado statehood

Answer 11

1876

Question 12

stampede

Answer 12

thousands of cattle run in panic

Question 13

Populist ideas

Answer 13

8-hour work day; income tax; one term for president

Question 14

open ranges

Answer 14

ranches not fenced or divided into lots; brand cattle

Question 15

Farmers’ Alliance

Answer 15

called People’s Party or Populist Party when into politics

Question 16

Indian Peace Commission

Answer 16

1867; move all Native Americans to reservations

Question 17

Ghost Dance

Answer 17

ceremony to hope for settlers to disappear; led to Sitting Bull’s death

Question 18

Union Pacific workers

Answer 18

Irish & African American

Question 19

Central Pacific workers

Answer 19

Chinese

Question 20

American Railway Association

Answer 20

1883; created 4 time zones; safer; exactly one hour later than zone to the west

Question 21

ESSAY: Why were railroads so important to boomtowns?

Answer 21

pg 69-boomtown

pg 70-71 railroad