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Question 1
Early prospectors would extract shallow
deposits of ore by what?
Placer mining
Question 2 After ore deposits near the
surface dwindled, mining corporations began using
what type of mining?
Quartz mining
Question 3What type of Union was the Iron Molders’ International
Union?
Trade union
Question 4What phrase means “ let
people do as they choose”?
Laissez-faire
Question 5People using the phrase “Pikes Peak or Bust” were
what?
Gold miners
Question 6What manages property for
others?
Trust
Question 7Why was petroleum in high
demand before the invention of the automobile?
It could be turned into kerosene
Question 8Huge ranches that covered
thousands of acres were called what?
Haciendas
Question 9What does laissez-faire rely
on to regulate prices and wages?
Free market
Question 10Supporters of laissez-faire
believed the government should interfere in the
economy only to do what?
Protect property and maintain peace
Question 11What describes the historical
significance of vaqueros?
They taught their trade to American cowboys
Question 12Measurements taken of Union soldiers during the Civil War
led to the development of what?
Ready-made clothes
Question 13In the early 1800s, Americans did not think cattle ranches on the Great Plains were practical
because why?
Eastern cattle could not survive on tough prairie grasses
Question 14What act began the railroad
boom?
Pacific Railroad Act
Question 15In the late 1800s, workers buying power generally
increased because why?
Prices fell faster than wages
Question 16What type of Union was the
Knights of Labor?
Industrial union
Question 17A steel company that owns the coal mines, limestone quarries, and iron ore fields it depends on
is an example of what?
Vertical integration
Question 18What machine changed
bobbins without stopping?
Automatic loom
Question 19What did corporations hope to achieve with the purchase
of new machines?
Economies of scale
Question 20The Chisholm Trail was a trail
that did what?
Cowboys used to drive cattle to a railroad line
Question 21At first, ranchers saw barbed wire as a threat because it did
what?
Kept their herds from roaming freely
Question 22What was a hardship faced
by settlers on the Great Plains?
Prairie fires
Question 23How did railroad companies raise most of the money that
was needed to build the railroad?
Selling government land grants
Question 24One approach to farming on
the Great Plains was “dry farming” in which farmers
did what?
Planted seeds deep in the ground
Question 25Before the Sand Creek
Massacre, the Cheyenne had come to Fort Lyon to do
what?
Negotiate
Question 26What country did rail
workers that Central Pacific Railroad hire come from?
China
Question 27The Homestead Act gave land
to homesteaders if they did what for 5 years?
Lived on the land
Question 28What owns stock in
companies that produce goods?
Holding company
Question 29Large landholders on the Great Plains were able to
Invest in the tools they needed
Question 30Why did the government offer
each railroad company land along its right-of-way?
Encourage rapid construction of the tracks
Question 31What invention enabled
longer and heavier trains?
Air brakes
Question 32The fencing of the open range
resulted in what?
The end of cattle drives
Question 33The Dawes Act attempted to
help Native Americans by doing what?
Giving them land for farming
Question 34Economies of scale resulted
in what?
Lower costs and increased production
Question 35The confrontation at
Wounded Knee occurred because the chief’s followers did what?
Performed a ritual
Question 36In the 1890s, when a glut of wheat on the world market
caused prices to drop, some farmers tried to survive how?
Mortgaging their land
Question 37What type of costs are wages,
shipping charges, and supplies?
Operating costs
Question 38What did members of
Congress think tariffs were necessary during the early day of industrialization?
Protect new industries from foreign competition
Question 39
What type of costs are loans, mortgages, and
taxes?
Fixed costs
Question 40Why did the army encourage
the killing of the buffalo?
Force Native Americans on reservations
Question 41The Comstock Lode was a
rich deposit of what?
Silver
Question 42 Many of the first miners in the
Colorado mountains did not find any minerals because
why?
The minerals were buried too deep