Ch. 3 Study Guide Answers

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3. They left from Missouri. They would leave in the spring so they could get through the Rocky Mountains before winter. 4. mountains, rivers, and climate 5. Wheat was the cash crops in the Great Plains and the weather, grasshoppers and tornados made it difficult to grow. 6. windmill, steel plow, barbed wire, and dry farming 7. The Homestead Act was a bill signed by Abe Lincoln. It encouraged pioneers to go and settle the west. 8. The Central Pacific began in Sacramento, California. The Union Pacific began in Omaha, Nebraska. The two lines met in Premonitory Point, Utah. 9. Central Pacific - Chinese (Coolies) Union Pacific - ex- Confederate soldiers, ex-slaves, Irish 10. Railroads could transport people and goods quicker and safer 11. Immigration increased due to the high demand for low-cost labor

12. Iron road - Railroad tracks Iron horse - Choo-Choo train engine 13. The two railroad tracks met and a golden spike was nailed into the ground 14. barbed wire, because it caused the cowboys to go miles out of their way for the cattle drive, but they all helped develop the West 15. Railroad workers and Indians did not get along because the railroad was scaring the buffalo away. Some railroad workers shot the buffalo and left them to rot. 16. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 said no Chinese could come into America and the ones already in America could not leave and could not bring any family to America. It affected Asian Americans. 17. The Battle of Little Big Horn was when Colonel Custer attacked a group of Lakota and Cheyenne Indians. Custer and all of his men were killed. Custer, Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse were there. 18. Most reservations are in the Plains and areas in the West. Oklahoma has the most Indian Reservations. 19. They were hunted down and killed, or they were captured and moved to reservations, or they were forced to constantly move and hide 20. The Dawes Act of 1887 was when the government split up the land between the Indians and tried to get them to farm the land. It tried to get the Indians to be more self-sufficient, but it did not work and was later repealed. 21. Red Cloud was an Indian Chief for the Sioux and was shot by Custer at the Battle of Little Big Horn. He tried to make peaceful agreements with the US government.