Westward Expansion After the Civil War

Who was most likely to become wealthy on the mining frontier?

• Mining companies

• The police

• Farmers

• Immigrants

Why did the vigilante justice (or harsh justice system) develop?

• There were miners

• There were no police

• Spiderman was fighting the Green Goblin

• The Gold Rush

Who helped build the transcontinental railroad?

• The police

• Native Americans

• Immigrants

• Cowboys

Why would ranchers drive the cattle from Texas to Kansas?

• They were bored

• Because the Native Americans forced them to

• To sell them for cheap

• To transport by train to Eastern markets

What was the main danger cowboys faced on the long cattle drives?

• Stampedes

• Seward's Folly

• Immigration

• Rain

What caused the end of the great age of the cowboy?

• Trains, wagons, and invention of the automobile.

• The Native American's helped the immigrants

• Harsh weather, movement of ranchers, and encroachment by farmers

• Drought, stampedes, and, they got old

What are forms of rain, snow, sleet, and hail

• Weather

• Precipitation

• Fun

• Branding

What are the reasons for settling the Great Plains?

• Temporary increase in rainfall

• Free land from the Homestead Act of 1862

• Cheap land sold by railroads

• Native Americans moving away

The Homestead Act of 1862 give away what to US citizens and immigrants?

• Mining companies

• Homesteads

• Cattle

• Free land

Why did settlers build sod houses?

• So they could practice dry farming methods

• So moms wouldn't have to clean windows

• There were not many trees in the plains

• To protect themselves from stampedes.