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Ch. 18
Reshaping the Nation
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Comstock load | Rich lode of silver-bearing ore |
| Boomtown | Virginia City, Nevada |
| Transcontinental railroad completion site | Promontory Point, Utah |
| "Pikes Peak or Bust" | Prospector's slogan |
| created by railroad companies | Times zones |
| What was most of the silver deep underground in rich streaks of ore called? | Lodes |
| In boom towns, people who dealt out their own brand of justice without benefit of judge or jury were called | Vigilantes |
| When mining "booms" were followed by "busts," boom towns turned into | Ghost towns |
| Railroad construction was made possible by government financial aid and land grants called | Subsidies |
| What railroad connected the Atlantic coast with the Pacific coast | Transcontinental railroad |
| Type of cattle | Longhorn |
| Plains farmers | Sodbusters |
| Led cattle herds to railroads | Chisholm Trail |
| Gave 160 free acres of land to a settler | Homestead Act |
| Spanish word for ranch | Rancho |
| What marked the end of the Cattle Kingdom? | Price collapse of mid-1880s |
| Burning a symbol into an animals hide to show ownership is to | Brand |
| One of the greatest dangers on a cattle drive was | The stampede |
| What did African Americans who migrated from the Southern states into Kansas call themselves? | Exodusters |
| Homesteaders who charged across the Oklahoma border on April 22, 1889 were called | Boomers |
| Apache leader | Geronimo |
| Fuel | Buffalo Chips |
| Dried meat | Jerky |
| William Cody | Buffalo Bill |
| George Custard's victim | Black Kettle |
| The southern plains were home to | Apache and Comanche |
| Which Native American nation's nomadic life depended on the horse, buffalo, and open land? | Sioux |
| More than 200 Lakota Sioux were killed at | Wounded Knee |
| Who was the leader of the Lakota Sioux who refused to sell the Black Hills of Dakota? | Sitting Bull |
| What dance did Woveoka, a prophet, give to to the Sioux to help them regain their former greatness? | Ghost Dance |
| The Populist Party wanted to replace the country's gold-based currency with | Free silver |
| Competed with Union Pacific | Central Pacific |
| Demand of the Populist party | Free silver |
| Which state joined the Union in 1876 | Colorado |
| The Cental Pacific relied on workers who were | Chinese |
| Who customarily wore wide-brimmed hats, chaps, and lariats? | Vaqueros |
| Which two nations lived as farmers and hunters? | Osage and Omaha |
| The Indian Peace Commission recommended that native Americams be | Moved to reservations |
| The last Native American to surrender formally to the United States | Geronimo |
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