Americans Moving West

Towns that suddenly appeared following the discovery of gold or silver in the West

• Boomtown

• Ghosttown

• Comstock Lode

• Frontier Town

Herding and moving cattle over long distances to market

• Boomtown

• Cattle Drives

• Pony Express

• Sodbusters

The name for the large deposit of gold and silver that was discovered in Nevada in 1859?

• Open-Range

• Exoduster Deposit

• Comstock Lode

• Reservations

This was an early mail-carrying system using messengers on horseback?

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Cattle Drives

• Sodbusters

• Pony Express

Frontier

• An area of underdeveloped land

• African Americans that migrated to the West following the Civil War

• Leader of the Apache who resisted the U.S.

• The name for a large deposit of gold that was discovered in California in 1849.

The system used by cowboys and vaqueros where cattle were allowed to roam and graze freely?

• Cattle Drive

• Open-Range

• Dry Farming

• Frontier System

This government act provided Americans with 160 acres of free land if they agreed to farm it for 5 years.

• Morrill Act

• Stamp Act

• Homestead Act

• Land Grant Act

Many African Americans from the South moved to Kansas following the Civil War to escape discrimination. These African Americans became known as....

• Sodbusters

• Vaqueros

• Exodusters

• Prospectors

This was the name given to farmers on the Great Plains because of the type of soil that had to break up?

• Sodbusters

• Reservationists

• Apache

• Buffalo Farmers

The federal act that gave land to the states to help finance agricultural colleges?

• Homestead Act

• Morrill Act

• Sioux Act

• Land Grant Act