SOC LAST TEST

Question 1

Time period

Answer 1

(1865-1898)

Question 2

“GO WEST YOUNG MAN”

Answer 2

Horace Greeley

Question 3

“I will fight no more forever”

Answer 3

Chief Joseph

Question 4

Sweet Baby James

Answer 4

James Taylor

Question 5

As the Industrial Revolution “steamed” forward in America it also helped pave the way for what?

Answer 5

westward expansion.

Question 6

What were the technological advancments that helped the Americans populate vast open lands
west of the Miss. River.

Answer 6

technological advances in firearms, transportation, farming and
communications

Question 7

The Fed Govt. felt the need to connect the country so they embarked on what?

Answer 7

the first transcontinental railroad line.

Question 8

What did the Trans-con provide?

Answer 8

It provided People and supplies now had safe and fast access all over
the country.

Question 9

Thousands of immigrants from Asia and Europe came and joined the effort in what.

Answer 9

the effort in
the dangerous job of building the RR tracks.

Question 10

Without the immigrants what would have happend?

Answer 10

our RR’s would never have been built!

Question 11

New weapons developed from ______ were now used by settlers to “tame the west”

Answer 11

civil war

Question 12

steel plough

Answer 12

this tool was able to assist farmers in utilizing the fertile soil of
the plains and transform them into thriving farms providing food for a growing nation.

Question 13

Barbed Wire

Answer 13

This simple fencing system helped ranchers domesticate the vast
herds of wild steer and horses roaming the west and revolutionize the American diet.

Question 14

The telegraph

Answer 14

This technological breakthrough in communications linked the
nation and allowed us to send messages in real time for the first time in history.

Question 15

What act was passed in 1862 and what did it do?

Answer 15

The homestead act set aside lands out west for
the American public to homestead.

Question 16

Stipulation:

Answer 16

Any head of family over 21 could receive 150 acres,
they must live on it for a period of 5 years then it became theirs.

Question 17

What was being used for the first time and wat was going on west?

Answer 17

Steel ploughs and barbed wire were used for first time-
thousands began moving West.

Question 18

What was hard frontier life like?

Answer 18

settlers hunted the buffalo to near
extinction solely for its hide and sport.

Question 19

Countless settlers (sodbusters), many from Scandinavia, headed
west to start what?

Answer 19

a new life built on hard work , skill and luck.

Question 20

The plains were what and provided Americans with what?

Answer 20

The plains were fertile and provided America with an almost
endless supply of crops.

Question 21

Why did most settlers make their homes from sod?

Answer 21

Because of the lack of trees on the plains

Question 22

By 1890 what happend to all free government owned land?

Answer 22

all free government land was gone which officially
ended the frontier. AMERICA WAS SETTLED.

Question 23

What happened in San Francisco in 1849 that caused and thousands of would-be miners flocked west?

Answer 23

Gold and Silver was “struck” (Sutter’s
Mill)

Question 24

Strikes of gold and silver throughout the West (Colorado, Nevada
etc.) spurred the growth of what?

Answer 24

Boom towns(lawless western towns
that grew around gold strikes to service miners).

Question 25

What could not bring enough supplies and raw materials to the growing crowds of “would-be” miners?

Answer 25

Wagons

Question 26

what happened Between 1865-1890?

Answer 26

RR expansion grew rapidly throughout the nation.

Question 27

The Us GOV. helped pay for what?

Answer 27

for and sponsored a “contest” to the company to build the fastest transcontinental RR (17,000 miles). The two companies finally tie the nation together at Promontory Point Utah 1869.

Question 28

Where did the US.GOVT. pay for the RRs

Answer 28

in land which already wealthy RR owners sold to settlers (The RR tycoon $$ was born)

Question 29

aside from adding to our growing economy what did the gold rush do?

Answer 29

spurred westward expansion.

Question 30

What did cows need to survive?

Answer 30

need large grassland areas to graze on (not what the majority of the original country was).

Question 31

Where was there giant herds of wild steer? When were we able to add them to the American Table?

Answer 31

in the South West and Texas but no way to get them to the American table until the RR was completed.

Question 32

Thousands of what went west?

Answer 32

Civil War cavalrymen

Question 33

Ranchers began doing what? Describe.

Answer 33

rounding up wild cattle, branding them and making the “long drive” north to the RR which brought them to Eastern markets.

Question 34

After being transported (alive)to eastern cities the cattle were what?

Answer 34

“processed” and consumed.

Question 35

Tremendous ranches of thousands of cattle became what with texas?

Answer 35

synonymous

Question 36

What industry boomed in America

Answer 36

the beef industry boomed in America

Question 37

The US Government viewed the native tribes in America as what?

Answer 37

roadblocks to modernization and growth of America.

Question 38

What were the natives to be forced onto?

Answer 38

reservation lands (mostly unwanted lands in the West.

Question 39

What happened when many tribes refused to start living on reservations? And what does the US do?

Answer 39

They declared war on the US and the US army goes to war against the natives.

Question 40

What were some of the Native american wars?

Answer 40

The Cheyenne War 1864-68 * The Sioux War 1868-77 * The Nez Perce War 1877 * The Apache War 1849-1886

Question 41

The Dawes Act (1887)

Answer 41

ends reservation system and instead gives small plots of land to natives. It’s goal was to “Americanize” the natives and force them to give up tribal life.

Question 42

what giant project was daunting to early 19th cent.

Answer 42

The concept of a RR stretching from Atlantic to Pacific across America (transcontinental railroad)

Question 43

In 1862 What did the US do with to different RR companies?

Answer 43

the US contracted 2 separate companies to start building the rr.(each from opposite sides of the the US to meet somewhere in the middle!)

Question 44

After 7 years of grueling and sometimes deadly work what happened in Promotory Point Utah.

Answer 44

the two met at Promotory Point Utah whereupon a golden spike was symbolically placed into the last section of track.

Question 45

Thousands of immigrants were used to do what?

Answer 45

Thousands of immigrants were used to do the labor, primarily Irish and Scottish on the East Coast and Chinese on the West coast.

Question 46

What did The Trans-Con revolutionize?

Answer 46

westward expansion in America.