Chapter 7 NE Studies

What were the Republicans and Democrats of Nebraska called?

• North Platters and South Platters

• Republicans and Democrats

• Populists

Ranchers used brands to:

• sell their cows

• mark their cows

• buy cows

What was NOT a change the Populist party wanted to see?

• They wanted lower taxes

• They wanted all children to attend school

• They wanted soldiers to have less money

• They wanted the government to buy the railroad.

The cattle industry began...

• after ranchers discovered barbed wire.

• after ranchers discovered prairie grasses were healthy for their cattle.

• in Texas

Mark ALL that apply: What were the reasons the capital city stayed in easter Nebraska?

• The land was too dry to grow crops in western Nebraska.

• The West was too unsettled.

• Indian warriors raided settlements in the West.

Industry where cattle from Texas were brought to Nebraska in cattle drives then onto trains to the East and Europe.

• The Grange

• Cattle Trade

• Orphan Trains

Helped farmers find information and crop markets

• Trans-Mississippi Exposition

• Reclamation Act

• The Grange

Stated a person could claim 160 acres by planting 10 of them with trees and caring or them for 8 years.

• Timber-Claim Act

• Reclamation Act

• Chautauqua Movement

Town where men bribed government leaders with ice cream

• Yankee Hill

• The Grange

• Lincoln

Gave farmers money for irrigation and for growing new crops

• Reclamation Act

• Trans-Mississippi Exposition

• Chautauqua Movement