Miners and Ranchers

The Comstock strike turned the town of ________, Nevada into a boomtown.

• Las Vegas

• Virginia City

• Reno

• Carson City

The rapidly growing communities that appeared at the site of mineral strikes were called__________.

• Ghettos

• Shantytowns

• Hooverville's

• Boomtowns

The Texas____________ was a breed of cattle descended from Spanish cattle that had been brought to Mexico two centuries earlier.

• Longhorn

• Red Angus

• Belgian Blue

• Hereford

The "Open Range" referred to a vast area of grassland owned by______.

• Homestead Farmers

• the federal government

• individual citizens

• a collective group of ranchers

Many ________ became rich when the mines they created generated huge profits.

• Prospectors

• Explorers

• Speculators

• Ranchers

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 of the following 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 towns