Chapter 20 - Opening The Last Frontier

Front 1

What is a rich deposit of ore, or metal, called.

Back 1

Lode

Front 2

What was the name given to a deserted mining town

Back 2

Gost Town

Front 3

The railroad that was built to connect the eastern part of the US to the western was called the ________________.

Back 3

Transcontinental Railroad

Front 4

An agreement between groups of people or nations is known as a ______________.

Back 4

Treaty

Front 5

Land that the government set up to be protected for the Indians.

Back 5

Reservation

Front 6

The trip ranchers took in the spring to move cattle north to the railroad was the _____ ______.

Back 6

Long Drive

Front 7

The name of the Mexican cowboy, from who the American cowboy got many of its customs.

Back 7

Vaquero

Front 8

The nickname for the open grasslands of Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana.

Back 8

Open Range

Front 9

People who received free land from the government from the Homestead Act were called ____________.

Back 9

Homesteaders

Front 10

One of the inventions by the settlers which helped to contain cattle in a field.

Back 10

Barbed Wire

Front 11

A farming technique farmers adopted by digging small trenches near the base of the crops to help absorb water.

Back 11

Dry Farming