US History Chapter 7

In 1858, a mining expedition found gold where in Colorado?

• Rocky Mountains

• Appalachian Mountains

• Pikes Peak

• Widows Peak

What were Boomtowns?

• towns that took a year to establish

• towns that grew up almost overnight

• towns that were not successful

• towns that were for rich people

What was a Ghost town?

• boomtowns that were not successful and abandoned

• towns that had lots of ghosts

• ghosts created those towns

• a town that was successful

Henry Comstock discovered _______ ore at the Comstock Lode, NV.

• Zinc

• Silver

• Gold

• Coal

The two sets of tracks met in ______________ to complete the transcontinental railroad.

• Promontory Point, Utah

• Pikes Peak, Colorado

• Sacramento, California

• Omaha, Nebraska

The Transcontinental Railroad connected the __________________________.

• north and south

• east and west

• north and west

• east and south

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Who did the Central Pacific rely on to help build the railroad?

• Indians

• French and Irish

• Irish and African Americans

• Chinese

 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

|A law that gave settlers 160 acres of land for $10

• homesteaders

• drought

• Homestead Act

• Proclamation

What was the MAIN purpose of many nineteenth-century cattle trails such as the Chisholm Trail?

• to help settlers farm new lands

• to provide food to eastern cities

• to clear wildlife from crowded areas

• to supply western ranches with livestock