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SS Ch. 3 Test
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| subsidy | money given by the government to support a project; financial aid or land grants |
| transcontinential | going across a continent |
| time zones | a geographic region in which the same standard time is used |
| long drive | a trip of several hundred miles on which ranchers led their cattle to railroads and markets |
| vaquero | a cowhand of Hispanic origin |
| homestead | to earn ownership of land by living on it |
| sodbusters | name given to early Great Plains farmers |
| dry farming | a farming method that depends on plowing after every rain and trapping moisture in the soil in dry land |
| nomadic | moving from place to place in a fixed pattern |
| reservation | an area of land set aside for use by a group |
| National Grange | a network of local farmers' groups |
| cooperative | enterprise owned by and operated for the benefit of a certain group |
| populism | an appeal to the common people |
| Who added stability to boomtowns by founding schools and churches? | women |
| The network of _______ expanded between 1865 and 1890 | railroads |
| The ________ _________ hired Chinese laborers to work on its tracks | Central Pacific |
| What was most of the silver found in rich mineral ores under the Earth called? | lodes |
| What were people called who practiced their own brand of justice without a judge? | vigilantes |
| When "booms" were followed by "busts," what did boomtowns become? | ghost towns |
| Which kinds of government financial aid and land grants paid for railroad construction? | subsidies |
| When the transcontinental railroad was complete, where did the two sets of tracks meet? | Promontory Summit, Utah |
| open range | large areas of land are not fenced in or divided into lots |
| Who tried to steal cattle from cattle drives? | rustlers |
| Many African Americans left the South and went ______ to search for a better life. | West |
| What was one factor leading to the end of the Cattle Kingdom? | The price collapse of the mid-1880s. |
| Branding | the act in which a symbol is burned into an animal's hide to show ownership |
| What was one of the frequent dangers on the cattle drives? | stampedes |
| How many African Americans migrated into Kansas from the South? | 400,000 |
| Boomers | the nickname given to people who had secretly slipped across the Oklahoma border to claim land before the Land Rush? |
| Why couldn't normal ways of farming be used in the Plains? | the plains had unusual conditions |
| Why was farming a family affair? | Men and children worked in the fields Women worked, cooked, and cared for the children |
| What technologies helped the sodbusters? | Steel plow Barbed wire Winter wheat |
| Geronimo | Apache leader |
| Buffalo | main source of food for Native Americans |
| Crazy Horse | Sioux chief and military leader |
| Reservations | tracts of land |
| Black Kettle | attacked by Colonel John Chivington's troops |
| Chief Joseph was the leader of the ___________ | Nez Perce |
| Which confrontation were more than 200 Lakota Sioux killed? | Wounded Knee |
| Who was the leader of the Lakota Sioux who refused to sell the Black Hills of the Dakotas? | Sitting Bull |
| Dance that celebrated the day when white settlers would disappear and buffalo would return | Ghost dance |
| Because of low demand, farmers dropped the price of _______ 96 cents between 1866 and the mid-1890s | wheat |
| The __________ was an organization of African American farmers. | Colored Farmers' National Alliance |
| _________ is the unlimited production of silver coins. | Free silver |
| National income tax | tax people with higher earnings more heavily |
| Cooperatives | What the Grange created to encourage economic self-sufficiency for farmers |
| Farmers' Alliances | The group that reduced the power of railroads and banks over farmers |
| The Populist Party wanted to replace the country's gold-based currency system with a system based on _________ | free silver |
| Who was elected President in 1896? | William Jennings Bryan |
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