American History Study Guide 2

Match the following

• vigilantes (like Batman)

• citizens who take the law into their own hands

• ghost town

• deserted boomtowns

• lively and lawless

• towns that grew up almost overnight around mining sites

• boomtowns

• boomtowns were often

• lodes

• Rich streaks of ore sandwiched between layers of rock

Name 7 new states from the west due in part to mining:

Match the following

• Promontory

• location where the transcontinental RR met

• sold land by railroads

• financial aid and land grants from the government

• transcontinental

• spanning the continent

• railroad

• how did railroads raise money to build businesses

• subsidies

• transportation system needed to support the mines

Which is NOT an effect of railroad growth?

• workers go west

• works go south

• carry produces to market

• steel and coal industries

• Time

Match the following

• open range

• a cattle trail

• chisholm and goodnight loving

• symbol to show who owns an animal

• Vaquroes

• towns located near railroads to market and ship cattle

• brands

• Hispanic ranch hands

• cowtowns

• land not fenced or divided into lots

Match the following

• lariat

• cowboys leggings

• Homestead Act

• cowboys rope

• overgrazing, too many, cold

• why the cattle kingdom ended?

• stampede

• cattle running in a panic

• chaps

• 160 free acres of land for a filing fee and 5 years living on land

Match the following

• too much rain, bugs, too little rain

• african americans who migrated to farms

• exodusters

• Single or married women could homstead?

• dry farming

• planting seeds deep in the ground

• single

• plains farmers

• sodbusters

• threats plains farmers faced

Match the following

• barwire

• Main food source of the indians

• Sooners and Boomers

• life style travelling long distances to follow food source

• Oklahoma

• new fencing to help claim land on the plans

• Buffalo

• last part of the plans to be settled

• Nomadic

• two groups of OK settlers

Match the following

• Dawes Act

• Apache leader

• Geronimo

• Sioux military leaders

• reservations

• tracts of land set aside for Native Americans

• George Custard

• leader of soldiers who perished at Little Big Horn

• Crazy Horse, little crow, sitting buffal

• Law that attempted to civilize Native Americans and make them citizens