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SS - Chapter 18
Social Studies, Chapter 18
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| How did companies mine for gold, in contrast to the method used by individual prospectors? | machinery and workers, individuals did it by themselves. |
| What was one of the world's richest deposits of silver-bearing ore that was discovered in Nevada? | comstock lode |
| Why was transportation important in the survival of mining towns? | Western mines operated far from the industrial centers. |
| Why did the railroads believe they should receive subsidies? | A rail network connecting East and West would bring important benefits tothe entire nation. |
| Why railroad companylaid the most track in building the transcontinental railway? | Union Pacific Company |
| Where did the two sets of track for railway meet? | Promontory Summit in Utah Territory |
| How did the American Railway Association maker rail service safer and more reliable? | |
| Most of the Plains Indians lived a _______ life, instead of farming. | nomadic |
| Native American nations were divided into ________ that were headed by governing councils. | several thousands |
| What supplied most of the Native Americans' needs? | Buffalo |
| The Indian Peace Commission recommended moving Native Americans to several large | reservations |
| The Fetterman Massacre involved Sioux warriers led by | Crazy Horse and men surrunded and killed Custer and his men at the battle of Little Big Horn. |
| Cheyenne were attacked while camped at Sand Creek in | Colorado |
| Who led the Sioux and refused to sell their land in the Black Hills of the Dakotas? | Sitting Bull |
| Sioux and Cheyenne warriers killed 250 Army soldiers led by who at the battle of what? | Custer(civil r hero) - at the Battle of Little Big Horn |
| Who was the Apache leader who was the last Native American to surrender? | Geronimo(led raids in Arozina) |
| T/F - Many farmers blamedtheir problems on railroad compaies, Eastern manufacturers and bankers. | True |
| The Grange encouraged farmers to be economically self-sufficient. | True |
| Cooperatives were successful because farmers typicaly had large reserves of cash. | False - Cooperatives were never successful and did not have large amounts of cash. |
| Farmers' Alliances became politically active and created the Farmers Party in 1890. | False - They named it the People's Party of the USA populist party. |
| The Populist Party wanted to replace the country's silver-based money-based system. | False - Populist Party wanted to replace the country's gold-based money system. |
| Many African Americans in the South who might have supported the Populists were unable to vote. | True |
| In the election of 1896, the Populist and Democratic candidate William McKinley faced the Democratic William Jennings Bryan. | False - Republican William McKinley faced the Democratic William Jennings Bryan. |
| Populist ideas had little impact on American life. | False - Populists had a large impact on American life. Many Populist ideas were adopted including the country's gold-based money system. |
| Vaquero | hispanic ranch hand, introduced roping, riding,and branding skills to american cowboys. |
| Brand | equal to a symbol that marks owership burned in the hide of cattle. |
| open range ranchs | texas ranchs that were not fenced in. |
| longhorn | tough breed of cattle brought to Texas by the spanish |
| wounded knee | last armed conflict with whhites |
| long drive | herding cattle to a railroad in a distant town |
| stampede | when thousands cattle run in panic |
| in a rush to cross the border and stake their claims, many _______ discovered they had been beaten to the best land by the ______. | boomers, sooners |
| cheyenne | hunted buffalo on the plains. |
| Central Pacific Railroad: | start in Sacramento CA,work east, go over the Searia Nevada MTS. they used Chinese as workers |
| Union Pacific Railroad: | start in Omaha NE, work west, cross the great plains and cut through the Rocky Mts. They used irish and arican americans as their workers |
| bc texas cattle called ________ were valuabule, the were herded on the _______ to meet the railroads. Cattle herding traditions were influenced bt the ________, who developed many of the necssary skills used by cowhands. | Longhorns, long drive, vaqueros |
| cattle div were eventually replaced by ________, which was affected when cattle prices fell. the government encouraged settlement on the Plains through the ________ ___. among the settlers were african americans called _______,single ________, and | ranching, Homestead Act, exodusters, women |
| ____________ from other countries. their greatest challenge in farming was the_______ | immigrants, climate |
| plains farmers, called _________, used the _________ method in which seeds were planted deep in moist ground. bc wood was scarce, _______ wasused for fencing. | sodbsters, dry farming, barbed wire |
| the __________ was the last region of the Plains to be settled. in a rush to cross the borderand stake their claims, many _______ discovered they had been beaten to the best land by the ___________. | Oklahoma Territory, boomers, sooners |
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