Unit 1 Ch 2-- Settling the West

What was one reason many of the first Colorado miners did not find gold or silver?

• mining companies had beaten them to the claims.

• the gold or silver lay hidden below the surface.

• there was only lead and copper in Colorado

• there was nothing there to find

What was equally as important as natural resources in the nation's rapid industrialization?

• A new tariff law

• Increased population

• New technology

• Gusto

What fenced off the open range?

• barbed wire

• electric fences

• range barriers

• railroads

What was a hardship that early settlers faced on the Great Plains?

• crowded cities

• dangerous factories

• scorching summers

• lack of land

What was one effect of fencing of the open range?

• increased sheep herding

• lower demand for beef

• the end of the long cattle drives

• increase of chicken farms

What did corporations use to find mineral deposits that lay far underground?

• diamond mining

• placer mining

• quartz mining

• fracking

What did a glut of wheat on the world market lead to?

• an increase in the number of bonanza farms

• construction of new railroad lines

• falling wheat prices paid to farmers

• decreased corn productions

What did Congress grant all Native Americans in 1924?

• citizenship

• reservation lands

• the right to assimilate

• the right to perform the Ghost Dance

What could cattle ranchers do on the open range?

• buy land from the government

• claim land within limits set by the government

• graze their herds for free

• race the trains

What did Henry Comstock find on the claim he staked in Nevada?

• fool's gold

• lead

• silver ore

• diamonds