West Test part 1

Question 1

Define subsidy

Answer 1

a form of financial aid or support extended to an economic business/ land grants

Question 2

Define transcontinental railroad

Answer 2

a railroad that goes across the entire continent

Question 3

What was a boomtown?

Answer 3

towns that grew big in less than a day near mining sites

Question 4

How did the government encourage railroads to expand to the West?

Answer 4

by giving railroad companies acres of land, 130 million acre

Question 5

If the building of the first transcontinental railroad started in 1862, which President would have authorized its construction?

Answer 5

Abraham Lincoln

Question 6

How did mining and railroads draw people to the West?

Answer 6

because people would make $20 a day which was more than the average salary pays, it was less than a $1; railroads made the movement of people to the west easier and allowed supplies to be moved back and forth with great ease

Question 7

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

Answer 7

the population in the West grew, which allowed states to develop and the country to expand; the landscape changed, resources were gained, time sources were created, ect.

Question 8

Who was Fred Harvey?

Answer 8

he invented the Harvey House lunch rooms, restaurants, souvenir shops, and hotels, which served rail passengers, the first chain restaurants

Question 9

Define cattle drive

Answer 9

a cattle drive was when a farmer would round up all of their cattle and move them to different locations by herding them

Question 10

Define cowtown

Answer 10

a cow town was a town that sprouted at the end of cattle trails

Question 11

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

Answer 11

because the farmers would drive their cattle to a railroad station and then send their cattle off east

Question 12

What contributed to the end of the cattle drives?

Answer 12

overgrazed land and falling prices

Question 13

Define homestead

Answer 13

to earn ownership of land by settling on it

Question 14

Define sodbusters.

Answer 14

farmers on the great plains had to adapt to the environment and unusual conditions on the plains, they developed new farming tools and methods

Question 15

Define sooners

Answer 15

people that came onto land when it was closed to new coming settlers

Question 16

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

Answer 16

there was less and less land for people to use, the environment, and unusual conditions on the plains

Question 17

What was the Homestead Act?

Answer 17

the law gave up 160 acres of land to any head of a family that paid a $10 fee and lived on the land for 5 years

Question 18

What was the Oklahoma Land Rush?

Answer 18

this was when some of the Indian land was given up to americans and 10,000 people lined up to claim it

Question 19

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

Answer 19

the first large farmers’ organization was a network of local groups

Question 20

Define farm cooperative.

Answer 20

stores owned by and operated for the benefit of farmers, these stores had lower prices and provided an outlet for farmers’ crops