Mod US History Final Word Scramble
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| Question | Answer |
| Those who went to seek their fortune in the California Gold Rush were called what? | Forty-Niners |
| This is a form of mining that does not require intense work and is usually done based on finding precious minerals on or near the surface. | "Placer Mining" |
| What bought the first wave of settlers tot he West? | Gold |
| In 1859, when prospector Henry Comstock staked a claim in Six-Mile Canyon, Nevada, the sticky blue-gray mud there turned out to be what? | Nearly pure silver ore |
| Deep deposits of lead that contained large amounts of silver led to the creation of one of the most legendary boomtowns that dotted the mining frontier. | Virginia City, Nevada |
| Eventually, and after considerable loss of life, the open range was largely fenced off with a new invention called what? | Barbed wire |
| What were hardships early settlers faced? | prices of crops dropped from overabundance, drought. |
| Settlement of the Great Plains was promoted by railroads and supported by the...? | Homestead Act and the government |
| In 1819, Stephen Long explored the Great Plains region and called it... | "The Great American Desert" |
| Many of the first miners in the Colorado mountains did not find minerals because... | they were hidden beneath the surface and hard to extract |
| The Chisholm Trail was a trail that... | was the major route North |
| At first, ranchers saw barbed wire as a threat because.. | it abandoned open range to prevent cattle from roaming |
| One approach to farming the Great Plains was "dry farming" in which farmers... | planted seeds deep in the ground where moisture was |
| The material for "dime novels" often came from... | cowboys stories as long drivers. |
| Before the Sand Creek Massacre, the Native Americans had come to Camp Lyon to.. | negotiate |
| The confrontation at Wounded Knee occurred because the chief's followers... | continued to perform the "ghost dance" after being told to stop. |
| Roaming cast distances, the Sioux and the Dakota were... | Nomads |
| By the early 1900s, Americans had transformed the United States into the world's leading... | Industrial nation |
| Who invented the telephone? | Alexander Graham Bell |
| This railroad was honestly operated without government subsides or land grants, became the most successful, and was the only one not forced into bankruptcy. | The Great Northern Railroad |
| The railway boom began in 1862, when President Abraham Lincoln signed the... | Pacific Railway Act |
| This railroad began the push west in the quest to build the transcontinental railroad. | Union Pacific |
| Loans,mortgages,and taxes are examples of a company's... | Fixed costs |
| What type of company does not produce anything itself? | Holding Company |
| What did several railroads announce in July of 1877 that triggered the first nationwide labor protest? | wage cuts |
| The first leader of the American Federation of Labor, Samuel Gompers, believed that unions should stay out of... | Politics |
| Workers who tried to organize a union or strike were often fired and placed on a list of "troublemakers" called the... | Blacklist |
| Who claimed that after the workers' revolution, the government would seize all property and create a socialist society where wealth was evenly divided. | Carl Marx |
| Even before the invention of the automobile, petroleum was in high demand because it could... | create gas |
| Because of the shortage of workers in California, the Central Pacific Railroad hired workers from... | China |
| Railroad companies raised most of the money they needed to build their railroads from... | land grants |
| The two railroads that built the transcontinental railroad were... | Union Pacific and Central Pacific |
| To make rail service more reliable, in 1883 the American Railway Association... | divided the country into four time ones |
| In the Credit Mobilier scandal, Union Pacific investors for rich by... | overcharging the Union Pacific |
| This was a technique used for breaking a union in which the company refused to allow the workers on the property and refused to pay them. | lockout |
| He is remembered for the creation of the first transatlantic cable. | Cyrus Westfield |
| Nativism had focused primarily on Irish immigrants but grew to include Asians, Jews, and... | Eastern Europeans |
| By the 1890s, immigrants made up significant percentages of some of the country's largest... | cities |
| Where did many Chinese settle? | California |
| What law, passed in 1882, barred Chinese immigration for 10 years and prevented the Chinese already in the country from becoming citizens? | Chinese-Exclusion Act |
| The processing center for the cast majority of immigrants arriving on the East Coast was at... | Ellis Island |
| What was the famous New York Democratic political machine called? | Tammany Hall |
| American's industrialization not only made some people wealthy; it also helped create a growing... | economy |
| William M. Tweed was... | a famous party boss |
| Nativists wanted to... | kick out all the immigrants |
| The ideas of philosopher Herbert Spencer and others applied Charles Darwin's Theory of evolution and natural selection to human society and was called... | Social Darwinism |
| The Gospel of Wealth was philosophy that held that wealthy Americans were responsible for using their great fortunes for social progress, of for engaging in... | Philanthropy |
| Just as Darwin had looked at the natural world scientifically, a new movement in art and literature moved away from romanticism and was called... | Realism |
| Popular culture changed in the late 1800s because industrialization improved that standard of living for many people, enabling them to spend money on... | entertainment and recreation |
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