Ch 19 Opening the West

Place that seemingly sprung up overnight when gold or silver was discovered.

• boomtown
• settlement
• mining camp
• ghost town

Money or goods given by a person or the government

    to  support a project that benefits the public (RR)

• Loan
• Tax
• Investment
• Subsidies

Gave acres of land to any head of family in order to encourage people to move to the Great Plains

• Morrill Act of 1862
• Land Grant Act of 1850
• Homestead Act of 1862
• Pacific Railway Act of 1862

Cowboys of Hispanic origin - taught roping & branding

• Vaqueros
• Gauchos
• Charros
• Rancheros

Group that helped build the railroad tracks in the West

• Chinese laborers
• Mexican workers
• Native American tribes
• Irish immigrants

Place that seemed everybody would disappear overnight when gold and silver was gone.

• Boom Town

• Ghost Town

• Railroad Town

• Township

Area of land set aside for use by a group (In this case Native Americans)

• Cultural Site
• Community Center
• Tribe
• Reservation

Method of pushing longhorns North to railroad shipping centers that took 2-3 months

• Longhorn herding
• Cattle ranching
• Railroad transportation
• Long Drives

Network of local farmers’ groups that encouraged

   cooperative selling and buying to avoid bank loans

• Rural trade association
• Local farmers' alliance
• Agricultural credit union
• Grange

People move from place to place as a way of life

• Nomadic

• Traveling

• Migrants
• Mission