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Clep 1890s Land
Clep 1890 Land & Mining
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| When gold was discovered in ____in 1848, it resulted in a body of prospectors--people who would go anywhere gold was found. | California |
| These gold rush prospectors created ____ overnight, which quickly became ghost towns once the mines were played out and the prospectors moved on to newer strikes. | boomtowns |
| One result of the gold rushes was that gov. was brought to many areas in the West. The first govs. were simply ___ committees--groups of citizens who w/o any official authority took upon themselves the authority to provide justice to the law breakers. | vigilante |
| The ___ boom in various areas in the West resulted in several areas becoming territories and states sooner than they would have otherwise | mining |
| The mining boom, mainly the gold rushes in areas such as ___, Nevada, Idaho and Montana resulted in areas being settled more quickly than they would have been without the mining rush. | Colorado |
| Placer mining was what the prospectors did to remove surface deposits of gold--it includes ___ for gold by a stream or using a sluce. | panning |
| "placer" mining meant the miners panned from the surface deposits. Once the surface deposits were gone, the prospectors moved on to other strikes. Large mining companies moved in with heavy ___ to set up mines to reach the ore deep inside the rock. | equipment |
| As placer mining shifted to ___mining, many prospectors went from being independent to working for large mining companies as laborers. | hard-rock |
| The shift to hard-rock mining, which involved using heavy equipment to ____ ore from deep inside rock, resulted in many independent prospectors becoming laborers working for low wages. | extract |
| The shift to hard-rock mining resulted in many prospectors becoming laborers. This resulted in the formation of unions--one of the most famous unions was the ___ , | Industrial Workers of the World |
| The Industrial Workers of the World, led by William Haywood, was one of the more militant unions. It was also known as the ___ . | Wobblies |
| Under Benjamin Harrison, the government opened up two million acres of Indian Territory in____ for settlement in 1889. | Oklahoma |
| President Benjamin Harrison had Native American tribes from the Southeast moved to Oklahoma. Under pressure, he opened the land given to the Indians up for settlement by American settlers. This led to the _____ . | Oklahoma Land Rush |
| The 50,000+ people who were part of the Oklahoma Land Rush were known as ___. | Boomers |
| Boomers all set out the day the land was opened for settlement to stake their claim--April 22, 1889. Some settlers who actually crossed into the land before the official beginning of the land rush to grab the best land were known as ___. | Sooners |
| Schools created for the training of ____ in the 19th century were called normal schools. | teachers |
| n 1823 the____ opened the first normal school in the US in Concord Vermont and that same year another normal school was opened by James G. Carter in Massachusetts. Normal schools typically trained teachers for elementary schools. | Reverend Samuel Hal |
| The Census Bureau's determination in 1890 that the frontier was "closed" caused: | a fear that the social misfits and discontents would have nowhere to settle. |
| ___ wrote a paper in 1893 entitled "The Significance of the Frontier in American History." This paper influenced generations of historians to come in their perception of the role of geography in how nations develop. | Frederick Jackson Turner |
| A year after OK Land Rush, land already had a pop. density of at least 2 people per sq. mile--which is known as the___. The fact that this settlement happened so quickly impressed F.Turner wrote "The Significance of the Frontier in Am. History." | frontier line |
| ____ established in 1890, was the first national park created to protect a wilderness area. | Yosemite |
| During the time period between the end of the Civil War and 1900, the United States became the leading ___ nation in the world. | industrial |
| The United States became the leading industrial nation in terms of raw materials produced, ____, the number of factories, etc | new technologies |
| Industrial Workers of the World which was known for its _____--using strikes, boycotts, and even sabotage to achieve its objectives | militant ways |
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