Vocab Quiz Chapter 17

Question 1

Vigilante

Answer 1

Or self appointed law keepers

Question 2

Subsidy

Answer 2

Grants of land or money

Question 3

Transcontinental railroad

Answer 3

A railroad line that spanned the continent

Question 4

Tepee

Answer 4

Cone shaped tents made of buffalo skins

Question 5

Reservation

Answer 5

Land set aside for Native Americans to live on

Question 6

Sitting Bull

Answer 6

A hunkpapa Lakota leader who lead his people during years of resistance against United States government policies

Question 7

Open range

Answer 7

Unfenced land

Question 8

Cattle drive

Answer 8

The herding and moving of cattle over long distances

Question 9

Cow town

Answer 9

Settlement at the end of a cattle trail

Question 10

Cattle kingdom

Answer 10

The region dominates by the cattle industry and its ranches, trails, and cow towns came to be called the cattle kingdom

Question 11

Homesteader

Answer 11

Settlers who acquired free land from the government on the Great Plains

Question 12

Sod

Answer 12

The surface of the ground, with grass growing on it

Question 13

Sodbuster

Answer 13

A farmer or farm worker who plows the land

Question 14

Sooner

Answer 14

A person settling on the land in the early east before its official opening to settlement

Question 15

Grange

Answer 15

A country house with farm buildings attached

Question 16

Farm cooperative

Answer 16

a network of member farmers who keep many benefits of doing business as a unit

Question 17

Inflation

Answer 17

The rate of increase in prices over a given period of time

Question 18

William Jennings Bryan

Answer 18

An American lawyer, orator, and politician, emerged as a dominant force in the Democratic Party