Chapter 19: The New West

A tepee is 

• A tent made by stretching buffalo skin on poles
• A sled pulled by a dog or a horse
• House built of soil and held together by grass roots
• Settlement that developed at the end of a cattle trail

A cooperative is

• A tent made by stretching buffalo skin over poles
• A sled pulled by a dog or horse
• A house built of soil and held together by grass roots
• A group of farmers who pool together money to buy tools and seeds wholesale

In 1862 the government encouraged settlement on the Plains by passing what law?

• Homestead Act
• Homes Act
• Holmes Act
• The Stead of Homes Act

Members of the ________ wanted to replace the nation’s gold-based currency with free silver.

• Farmers' Alliance
• Populist Party
• Republican Party
• National Grange

Who was the leader of the Apaches who surrendered in 1886?

• Crazy Horse
• Chief Joseph
• Geronimo
• Sitting Bull

The cattle trail really started when Abilene was founded so what  could be shipped by railroad to northern and eastern markets?

• Cattle
• Horses
• Chickens
• Pigs

In boomtowns, what were people called who practiced their own brand of justice without the benefit of a judge?

• bandits
• busters
• vaqueros
• vigilantes

What  large hairy land mammal that the Native Americans used for food until it was almost wiped out in 1883.

• Longhorns
• Moose
• Buffalo
• Black Bears

What were new cities that sprang up around mining centers named?

• ghosttowns
• boomtowns
• funkytowns
• cowtowns

The Homestead Act encouraged people to move West because it..

• established ranching towns for cattle drivers.
• offered free land to those willing to farm it.
• offered land to gold prospectors.
• promised protection from Native Americans.