Chapter 17

Question 1

Self appointed law keeper

Answer 1

Vigilante

Question 2

Grants of land or money

Answer 2

Subsides

Question 3

A railroad line that spanned the continent and connected the west coast and the east coast

Answer 3

Transcontinental railroad

Question 4

Rich streaks of ore sandwiched between layers of rocks

Answer 4

Lode

Question 5

1858, found near Sierra Nevada

Answer 5

Comstock Lode

Question 6

Town tags sprang up quickly because gold was found

Answer 6

Boomtowns

Question 7

When the gold was gone the boomtowns people deserted the town

Answer 7

Ghost towns

Question 8

From Sweden, designed blue jeans from miners, sturdy pants, he made a fortune, not in gold but in jeans

Answer 8

Levi Strauss

Question 9

Began in Omaha Nebraska and went westward

Answer 9

Union Pacific

Question 10

Began in Sacramento California and went eastward

Answer 10

Central Pacific

Question 11

Where it connected in Utah

Answer 11

Promontory Point

Question 12

Governor of California he laid the last trail

Answer 12

Leland Stanford

Question 13

Small sleds

Answer 13

Travois

Question 14

Cone shaped tents made of Buffalo skin

Answer 14

Tepees

Question 15

Tracks of land set aside for Indians

Answer 15

Reservations

Question 16

Forced off his land in 1876 by Government Lakota chief

Answer 16

Sitting Bull

Question 17

In 1851 when us government tells Indians that the land they give them is there’s forever

Answer 17

For Laramie Treaty

Question 18

Led his troop to Little Big horn valley

Answer 18

Col. Cluster

Question 19

Surrendered at the Indian war was a Nez Prez

Answer 19

Chief Jospeh

Question 20

Chief of the Apaches

Answer 20

Geronimo

Question 21

“A country of Dishonor” which was about the atrocities of the American way of dealing with the Indians

Answer 21

Helen Hunt Jackson

Question 22

In 1887 Indians must be Americanized, they had to become citizens they were forced to live an alien life and they weren’t farmers but they were hunters

Answer 22

Dawes Act

Question 23

A religious ceremony and they prayed to the great spirit Novocain to bring Buffalo Back

Answer 23

Ghost dance

Question 24

No fences around the ranches

Answer 24

Open range

Question 25

The herding and moving of the cattle over long distance

Answer 25

Cattle drive

Question 26

Spanish word for choosy or cowhand

Answer 26

Vaquero

Question 27

Settlements at the end of the cattle trail

Answer 27

Cowtowns

Question 28

The region dominated by cattle industry and its ranches trails and cowtowns

Answer 28

Cattle kingdom

Question 29

Wild cattle they roamed in the wild and they were brought over by the Spanish and Mexicans

Answer 29

Longhorn

Question 30

What the ranchers did to the animals hide into their symbol

Answer 30

Brand

Question 31

Trail from central Texas to Abilene Kansa

Answer 31

Chisholm Trail

Question 32

Invented barbed wire in 1874 to coral cattles

Answer 32

Jospeh Glidden

Question 33

Settlers who acquired free land from the Governemnt

Answer 33

Homesteader

Question 34

A surface layer of earth in which the roots of grasses tangle with soil

Answer 34

Sod

Question 35

Plain farmers

Answer 35

Sodbusters

Question 36

Already sneaked into the land

Answer 36

Sooners

Question 37

Groups of farmers who met for lectures, seeing bees, and other events

Answer 37

Granges

Question 38

Groups of farmers who pooled their money together to by seeds, tools, and other products

Answer 38

Farm cooperatives

Question 39

General rose in price

Answer 39

Inflation

Question 40

A dem. From Nebraska known as the great commoner he was also a great orator

Answer 40

Willam Jennings Bryan

Question 41

Names given to thousands of African Americans who moved out west

Answer 41

Exodusters

Question 42

People who moved out towards the end of the 1860's

Answer 42

Boomers

Question 43

Party for farmers

Answer 43

Populist Party

Question 44

Kept McKinley secluded in his home of Canton, Ohio and only delivered short speeches with preordained questions

Answer 44

Marcus Hanna

Question 45

Was not a great orator

Answer 45

McKinley