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What were the first wild cattle called?
longhorns
Where was the Comstock Load found in?
Sierra Nevada
What were the Plains Farmers called?
sodbusters
Who was the leader of the Nesperts Indians?
Chief Joseph
Who built the Transcontinental Railroad?
the Union Pacific and Central Pacific companies
_______ _________ was the daughter of an Omaha chief and spoke out for Indian rights.
Susette LaFlesche
Native American hunters drove buffalo into...
corral.
Who spoke out for farmers and free silver?
William Jennings Bryan
Which group helped farmers by using wholesale prices?
the National Grange
What were the vast grazing lands from Kansas to Montana called?
Cattle Kingdom
Most of the cowboys' knowledge came from the...
Spanish vaqueros.
The Native Americans so realized that this was a hollow victory because more soldiers would come and take them to reservations.
the Battle of Little Bighorn
What encouraged Native Americans to become farmers?
the Dawes Act
Why did railroad companies hire immigrant workers?
people were in the Civil War and they took low wages
What was the benefit of the Transcontinental Railroad?
goods were shipped faster and more cheaply
The Plains Indians lives revolved around the...
buffaloes.
Each Native American group had their own...
religion and language
Each Native American culture had...
crafts and poems
Native Americans were not...
farmers or miners
Why didn't settlers and Plains Indians get along?
the settlers were breaking the treaty by settling there
Who suffered when it came to the reservation system and the disappearance of buffalo?
the Plains Indians
Which political party called for an 8-hour workday?
the Populist Party
The most active farmers group in the South and Great Plains was the...
Farmers' Alliance
What were black Americans that moved to Kansas to farm called?
exodusters
Why were the 1800s a hard time for farmers?
grain and cotton prices dropped
What opened up the country after the Civil War?
railroads
Which group let both skilled and unskilled workers join?
Knights of Labor
Which process allowed stronger and cheaper steel?
the Bessemer Process
What forbade monopolies?
Sherman Antitrust Act
What was the most powerful union in the United States called?
the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
What did JD Rockefeller organize?
Standard Oil
Courts used ___________ to force strikers back to work.
injunctions
How did Henry Ford make cheaper cars?
using mass production
What raised money with stocks?
corporations
What did Standard Oil create?
a monopoly
Big customers were given _______ by railroad companies.
rebates
What even gave antilabor feelings in the United States?
Haymarket Riot
What event forced the government to make new factory safety laws?
Triangle Fire
Where was the steel industry based?
in the Midwest
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S.S. Ch. 18-19 Test Review
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S.S. Ch. 18-19 Test Review for New York State 7SP Social Studies classes.
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