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The West
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| originally known as the pacific railroad | transcontinental railroad |
| type of fencing used to keep something in or out | barbed wire |
| the first major U.S. discovery of silver ore | constock lode |
| comunity that experienced rapid growth | boom towns |
| any quickly written, lurid potboiler | dime novels |
| united states statuses that allowed for the creation of the land grant college | morrill land grants |
| agricultural region predominatley dedicated to the growing of wheat | wheat belt |
| old tv show | bonanza |
| officially referred to as the national grange of the order of patrons of husbandry | the grange |
| party program adopted at the formative convention of the populist | omaha platform |