Topic 10 Lesson 1&2

Question 1

Lode

Answer 1

A Rich Vein of gold or silver

Question 2

Railroad companies ______, which changed the environment

Answer 2

Cut through forests

Question 3

Transcontinental Railroad

Answer 3

One that stretched across the country from one coast to another.

Question 4

Unfair practices were affecting consumers

Answer 4

so laws were passed to regulate them.

Question 5

Cattle Drive

Answer 5

Texas ranchers driving longhorns hundreds of miles north to railroad line in Kansas and Missouri.

Question 6

The number of federal land grants that a state received under the Morrill Acts was based on the ________.

Answer 6

Population

Question 7

Cowtown

Answer 7

Towns that sprung up along railroad lines during cattle drives.

Question 8

________ which made the Homestead act less successful in establishing small farm than it could have been.

Answer 8

Land for homesteaders was scarce .

Question 9

Wholesale

Answer 9

Buying or selling something in large quantities at lower prices

Question 10

Vigilante

Answer 10

Self-appointed law enforcers

Question 11

Before a national network of railroads could exist, it was necessary to __________.

Answer 11

The gauge of the tracks

Question 12

Subsidy

Answer 12

Is financial aid or land grant from the government

Question 13

Pool

Answer 13

Railroad companies divided up the business in the area, then fixed their prices at a higher level.

Question 14

The overall effect of the Transcontinental Railroad on the United States was _________.

Answer 14

Led to economic and population growth in the west.

Question 15

Vaquero

Answer 15

Skilled riders who herded cattle on ranches in Mexico, California, and the southwest

Question 16

Morrill Acts

Answer 16

Set aside federal lands to create colleges to “ Benefit “ the agricultural and mechanical arts.

Question 17

Sodbuster

Answer 17

Name for plains farmers who had to cut through sod to get to the dirt below to farm.

Question 18

Cooperative

Answer 18

A group of farmers who pooled their money together to buy seeds and tools wholesale ( In large quantities)

Question 19

The cattle boom was ended by new settlements in the West and problems with ______.

Answer 19

Disease and the climate.

Question 20

Farming the western plains was difficult because ________.

Answer 20

The harsh environment presented many difficulties.

Question 21

Gauge

Answer 21

Widths

Question 22

Inflation

Answer 22

Increasing the money supply causes increased proved and wreck the economy

Question 23

Mechanization

Answer 23

To change a process or action so it is performed by a Machine

Question 24

________ is why large companies were able to take over most of the mining operations in the west.

Answer 24

They had the money to buy expensive machinery to dig deeply underground.

Question 25

Vaqueros were critical to the development of the cattle industry in the West because they ________.

Answer 25

Taught American cowhands about riding,roping and branding

Question 26

SHORT ANSWER: How did the expansion of ranching lead to the growth of New towns in the West?

Answer 26

Ranchers made larger profits and railroad workers spent all their money in CowTowns.