West Test Part 1

Question 1

Define subsidy

Answer 1

a government provided financial aid or land grants

Question 2

Define cattle drive

Answer 2

movement of herds of cattle on trails over great distances

Question 3

Define transcontinental railroad

Answer 3

It’s a rail line that’s connected to the Atlantic and Pacific coasts

Question 4

What was a boomtown

Answer 4

It’s a town that quickly grows up around a mining center

Question 5

Define cowtown

Answer 5

the end of cattle trails

Question 6

How did the expansion of railroads help to create a successful cattle industry

Answer 6

cattle were sent to markets and people would pay for them a lot more

Question 7

What attracted settlers to move to Kansas

Answer 7

land

Question 8

How did the government encourage railroads to expand to the West

Answer 8

by providing land grants (subsiders) and government provided more than 130 million acres of land to railroad companies

Question 9

What contributed to the end of the cattle drives

Answer 9

it ended because of small farms that became infected with something called Texas Fever, a small tick that carried diseases

Question 10

Define homestead

Answer 10

a house on land that includes farm and land

Question 11

Define sodbusters

Answer 11

farmers who developed new farming methods and tools

Question 12

Which President authorized the building of the first transcontinental railroad starting in 1862

Answer 12

Abraham Lincoln

Question 13

How did mining and railroads draw people to the West

Answer 13

Mining attracted people from chance to “strike it rich”. Railroads made the movement to the West easier and allowed supplies to be moved back and forth with greater ease

Question 14

How did the expansion of railroads to the west change the United States?

Answer 14

The population in the West grew, which allowed states to develop and the country to expand. the landscape changed, resources were gained, time zones were created, etc

Question 15

What was the Homestead Act

Answer 15

It gave up to 160 acres of land to any head of a family who paid a $10 filing fee and lived on the land for five years

Question 16

What was the Oklahoma Land Rush

Answer 16

Oklahoma had free land and who ever got their first, got land… like a competition

Question 17

What was the National Grange (a.k.a. The Grange)

Answer 17

The first larger farmers’ organization that was a network

Question 18

Who was Fred Harvey

Answer 18

a businessman who started the first chain of restaurants. He set up restaurants along the Aitchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe rail line known as Harvey Houses

Question 19

Define farm cooperative

Answer 19

a way for farmers to pool their money together to buy large amounts of supplies for less money

Question 20

Define sooners

Answer 20

someone who sneaked into Oklahoma and claimed land before the Oklahoma Land Rush

Question 21

List at least 3 difficulties faced by Kansas farmers in the late 1800s

Answer 21

the harsh weather conditions they had, economic depression, and not enough resources

Question 22

Three different things that contributed to the end of the cattle drive

Answer 22

Laws that kept cattle drives out of the states… Texas Fever, farmers who fenced off their land with barbed wire so the cattle couldn’t ruin it, railroads that extended themselves to where the cattle were raised

Question 23

How did the cattle industry begin

Answer 23

New railroads allowed ranchers to ship beef east

Question 24

TRUE OR FALSE

Clearing trees was not a difficultly faced by Kansas farmers in the late 1800’s

Answer 24

true

Question 25

What’s the intersection of a railroad and a cattle town called

Answer 25

cowtown