Expense of Expansion

Farmers, whose days were regulated by the sun, created new time zones as they moved west.

• True

• False

• Sometimes

• I'm not sure

What was the sodbusters’ practice of farming the Plains called?

• Lode farming

• Ore farming

• Till farming

• Dry farming

For most of their history, how did the Plains Native Americans meet their needs for food, clothing, shelter, and tools?

• farming

• fishing and mining

• hunting buffalo

• raising cattle and horses

When the transcontinental railroad was finally completed, where did the two sets of tracks meet?

• Twin Falls, Idaho

• Salt Lake City, Utah

• Promontory Summit, Utah

• Fort Collins, Colorado

When “booms” were followed by “busts,” what did boomtowns become?

• ghost towns

• bust towns

• dead towns

• dusty towns

As railroad systems became more efficient over the years, what happened to the cost of shipping freight?

• The shipping cost remained the same.

• The shipping cost decreased.

• The shipping cost varied greatly.

• The shipping cost increased.

Allowed farmers to keep cattle from nearby ranches off their fields and away from their crops.

• steel plow

• barbed wire

• windmill

• sod house

What allowed farmers to break up dry tough soil of the Great Plains?

• sod house

• windmill

• steel plow

• barbed wire

These were used throughout the Great Plains to pump water from the ground and to provide power.

• windmills

• sod house

• steel plow

• barbed wire

Black Americans who moved from the South to the West because of the Homestead Act and to escape segregation and violence were called _________________________________.

• sodbusters

• exodusters

• vaqueros

• trailblazers