Ch 19 Opening the West

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

• boomtown
• settlement
• mining camp
• ghost town

What battle is also known as Custer’s Last Stand?

• Battle of Little Bighorn
• Wounded Knee

• Battle of the Apache

• Nez Perce Attack

What was referred to as becoming transcontinental in this chapter?

• 1. Reservation systems

• Farming Cooperatives

• Railroad Lines

• Reservation System

What 2 companies worked to build this transcontinental item?

• Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad and Great Northern Railway
• Burlington Northern Railroad and Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
• Southern Pacific Railroad and Northern Pacific Railroad
• Central Pacific Railroad and Union Pacific Railroad

How many time zones does the continental U.S. have?

• 6
• 3
• 5
• 4

What group do we have to thank for helping create standard time zones?

• The aviation industry

• The telecommunications

  industry

• The maritime industry

• The railroad industry

Money or goods given by a person or the government

    to  support a project that benefits the public (RR)

• Loan
• Tax
• Investment
• Subsidies

What political party was created by Farmers’ Alliances and pushed for things

    such as an 8 hour work day, direct election of Senators & the secret ballot?

• Populist Party
• Green Party
• Republican Party
• Democratic Party

Where did Chivington and his men massacre hundreds of Cheyanne, more 

        than half of which were women and children?

• Little Bighorn
• Wounded Knee
• Fort Laramie
• Sand Creek

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

• Boom Town

• Ghost Town

• Railroad Town

• Township