Question | Answer |
What does INDEPENDENCE mean? | Libert...freedom |
What does ECONOMIC mean? | having to do with money and trade |
What does VACANT mean? | empty |
What does SCRAWLED mean? | wrote awkwardly |
What does OVERRUN mean? | filled up...filled beyond its limits |
What happened to most towns if the railroad did not run close by? | The town became a ghost town. |
What does boomed mean in this sentence: These communities boomed as miners sought gold, silver, copper, or other precious minerals. | grew quickly |
How do the photos with captions add to this selection? | They give more information about ghost towns and settlers. |
Give a statement of opinion from this story. | Few very repectable-looking women have ventured over to see us. |
What is a generalization from this story? | A few people got rich, but many others did not. |
Why did most towns fail? | Moneymaking sources ran out. |
How were Pheonix, Arizona and Denver,Colorado alike? | They both grew and survived. |
Why do you think the author wrote this story? | He wanted to teach the readers about how busy towns can quickly die. |
Why do you think that the author quotes many different people throughout the story? | The author does this to show what others think about the ghost towns. It gives other peoples opinion on the topic. |
What is this story mostly about? | Western towns that did not survive. |
Why was the railroad important to new towns in the west? | People wanted to be near the transportation. The railroad was how the new people got to the new towns. |
What other graphic sourc would help you remember information from this story? | A map might be useful, showing us where the settlers were settling. It can even show where the cities were around the railroad. |
What detail supports the main idea of this story? | People most often think of ghost towns as the settlements of the western frontier. |
What was one of the first events that lead to the Gold Rush in the west? | James Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's Mill. |