west test

Question 1

government provided financial aid or land grants

Answer 1

subsidy

Question 2

connected the the atlantic and pacific coasts.

Answer 2

transcontinental railroad.

Question 3

fast growing community around a mining center.

Answer 3

boomtown

Question 4

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

Answer 4

government offered land grants to railroad companies

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

offered people to change to “strike it rich” railroads made the movement of people to the west easier.

Question 7

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

Answer 7

population in the west grew, which allowed states to develop, and the country to expand.

Question 8

who was fred harvey

Answer 8

a businessman who started the first chain of restaurants. he set up restaurants along the Atchison, Topeka, and santa fe rail line. known as harvey houses.

Question 9

the movement of herds of cattle on trails over great distances.

Answer 9

cattle drive

Question 10

a town at the end of a cattle trail. cowtown offered a railroad for cattle to be loaded

Answer 10

cowtown

Question 11

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

Answer 11

cattle could be sent to markets where people were willing to pay more for meet.

Question 12

What contributed to the end of the cattle drives?

Answer 12

ended due to small farms using barbed wire to fence off their land

Question 13

a house and other buildings set on acreage that often includes farmed land.

Answer 13

homestead

Question 14

a plains farmer

Answer 14

sodbusters

Question 15

someone who sneaked into Oklahoma and claimed land before the Oklahoma land rush.

Answer 15

sooners

Question 16

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

Answer 16

economic depression
bad weather
grasshoppers
not enough water

Question 17

what is the Oklahoma land rush?

Answer 17

a competition for free land in Oklahoma in 1889

Question 18

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

Answer 18

national grange was a national organization of farmers

Question 19

Define farm cooperative.

Answer 19

a farm cooperative was a way for farms to pool their money together buy large amounts of supplies for less money.