Mining, Railroads, and the Economy

This is used to measure the width of a railroad track

• Boomtown

• Gauge

• Lode

• Subsidy

What is a discount offered by railroads to big customers?

• Ore

• Gauge

• Subsidy

• Lode

What is a vein of metal ore in the earth called?

• Lode

• Subsidy

• Populist

• Prospector

A self-appointed enforcer of the law

• Prospector

• Populist

• Homesteader

• Vigilante

What's the name of a town enjoying very large business and population growth

• Funky Town

• Boomtown

• Ghost Town

• Growthtown

This person has money invested in a business

• Populist

• Vigilante

• Capitalist

• Prospector

A deserted town with few or no remaining inhabitants

• Ghost Town

• Boomtown

• Goblin Town

• Toontown

This means "to combine"

• Lode

• Ore

• Gauge

• Consolidate

What do you call a person who searches for mineral deposits?

• Gauge

• Homesteader

• Subsidy

• Prospector

What was the event that caused 15,000 businesses and 500 banks to close, leaving many people unemployed?

• Stock Market Collapse of 1929

• Panic of 1893

• Compromise of 1877

• Compromise of 1890