USH Settling the West - Miners and Ranchers

What caused America to demand more minerals and metals?

• Transitioning to an industrial economy

• Transitioning to an agricultural economy

• Settling the West

• Mining

(a)   played a significant role in the settling of the American West

Boomtowns are ___.

• Rapidly shrinking towns

• Rapidly growing towns

• Towns that blew up

• Towns with rapidly growing cattle population

North Dakota became a state in ______.

• 1876

• 1889

• 1912

• 1898

Which mining technique involved spraying high-pressured water at the earth to expose minerals?

• Placer

• Sluice

• Hydraulic

• Quartz

Which mining technique involved searching riverbeds with boxes & riffle bars?

• Placer

• Sluice

• Hydraulic

• Quartz

In 1884, federal judge _____ ______ issued an injunction stopping hydraulic mining.

• Lincoln Sawyer

• Lorenzo Saltzman

• Lorenzo Sawyer

• Lincoln Saltzman

Texas longhorn cattle had adapted to living in the

• Great Lakes

• Southwest

• Great Plains

• Mountains

Vast grassland owned by the federal government is

• Great Plains

• haciendas

• long drive

• open range

What changed the beef industry in the mid 1800s?

• Reconstruction

• Industrial Revolution

• Civil War

• Revolutionary War