Gilded Age

These were areas that sprang up almost over night?

• City

• Boomtown

• Vigilante

• Mining Town

What invention made enclosure of farmland possible?

• Barbed Wire

• Tractors

• Tillers

• Electric fencing

 Often lasting several months and covering hundreds of miles, the _____________________ was one of a cowboy’s most important and dangerous duties.

• open range
• cattle drive
• railroad

 By granting loans and land grants to railroad companies, the passage of the Pacific Railway Acts of 1862 and 1864 ensured the needed money and materials would be available for the successful completion of the ____________________.

• Pony Express
• Transcontinental Railroad
• Interstate System

Public land on which ranchers grazed huge herds; once occupied by Plains Indians.

• frontier
• open range
• The Great Plains

What name was given to the homes built by the settlers out of the earth?

• Mud Houses

• Earth Homes

• Sod Houses

• Buffalo Homes

Name the group of settlers who bought land in the American West to farm land.

• Homesteaders

• Civil War Soldiers

• Exodusters

• Mormons

When the gold was gone, towns that were once boomtowns often became

• gold towns
• bust towns
• ghost towns
• booming towns

What gave 160 acres to people willing to settle the plains?

• Dawes Act
• National Grange
• Farmers' Alliances
• Homestead Act

The Plains Indians met their need for food by hunting

• chickens
• wild pigs
• buffalo
• horses