Settling the West Review

_____1. ___________ played a major role in the mining and cattle industry for transporting

• tractors

• trucks

• wagon trains

• railroads

_____2. Which of the following countries did workers for the Transcontinental Railroad NOT come from?

• USA

• China

• Italy

• Ireland

_____3. __________ and _____________ were the two companies hired to build the railroad.

• Union Pacific, Central Pacific

• Atlantic Union, Pacific Union

• Promontory Summit, Ulysses S. Grant

• Homestead, Pacific Railway

_____ 4. The Comstock Lode was a rich deposit of

• Gold

• Silver

• Copper

• Diamonds

_____ 5. When the mines ran out in Boom-towns and the people moved on it often created ____________

• Ghost towns

• Mini towns

• Slow towns

• Small towns

_____ 6. Which of the following factors contributed to the end of the open-range system and the need for cowboys?

• The development of railroads

• The use of sod for houses

• The invention of barbed wire

• The disappearance of big mining companies

_____ 7. The Chisholm Trail was a trail that

• Wagon trains followed through the Rocky Mountains

• Native Americans traveled on their forced westward migration

• Cowboys used to drive cattle to a railroad line

• Lewis and Clark took it on the way to the Pacific Ocean

_____ 8. Grazing cattle on government property for free with no fences was called

• Open season

• Open opportunity

• Open range

• Open ranching

_____ 9. American cowboys learned their trade from _________.

• Native Americans

• Hispanic Vaqueros

• African Americans

• Irish Immigrants

_____ 10. The Homestead Act encouraged people to move West because it…

• Promised protection from Native Americans.

• Offered land to gold prospectors.

• Established ranching towns for cattle drivers.

• Offered free land to those willing to farm it.