History of Mining and Settlement

The Comstock strike turned the town of ________, Nevada, into a boomtown. Choose from the word bank: the federal government, prospectors, Virginia City, longhorn, boomtowns.

The rapidly growing communities that appeared at the site of mineral strikes were called ________. Choose from the word bank: the federal government, prospectors, Virginia City, longhorn, boomtowns.

The Texas ________ was a breed of cattle descended from Spanish cattle that had been brought to Mexico two centuries earlier. Choose from the word bank: the federal government, prospectors, Virginia City, longhorn, boomtowns.

The "open range" referred to a vast area of grassland owned by ________. Choose from the word bank: the federal government, prospectors, Virginia City, longhorn, boomtowns.

Many ________ became rich when the mines they created generated huge profits. Choose from the word bank: the federal government, prospectors, Virginia City, longhorn, boomtowns.

Early prospectors would extract shallow deposits of ore by:

• Hydraulic mining

• Placer mining

• Quartz mining

• Tunnel mining

The Comstock Lode was a rich deposit of:

• Copper

• Diamonds

• Gold

• Silver

Many of the first miners in the Colorado mountains did not find any minerals because:

• Mining companies had claimed them.

• The areas were too hard to reach.

• The minerals were buried too deep.

• There were no minerals to find.

Huge ranches that covered thousands of acres were called

• barrios.

• haciendas.

• lariats.

• stampedes.

Which circumstance greatly spurred the settlement of Colorado, Arizona, and Montana?

• the arrival of large numbers of miners

• the availability of free land

• the growth of the cattle industry

• the presence of peaceful, orderly town