Chapter 18 Sections 1

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• The Mining Booms
• Ranchers and Farmers

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Chapter 18 Sections 1

• Pikes Peak or Bust was the prospectors slogan.
• Comstock Lodes are rich lode of silver-bearing
  one.
• Virginia City, Nevada was a boomtown.
• Promontory Point was the transcontinental
  railroad completion site.
• Time zones were created by railroad companies.

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Chapter 18 Section 1

• Lodes were most of the silver deep underground
  which was in rich streaks of ore.
• In boomtowns, people who dealt out their own
  brand to justice without benefit of judge or jury
  were called vigilantes.
• When mining booms were followed by bust,
  boomtowns turned into ghost towns.
• Railroad construction was made possible by
  government financial aid and land grants called
  subsides.
• Transcontinental railroad connected the Atlantic
  coast with the Pacific coast.

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• Longhorns are a type of cattle.
• Plains farmers are called sodbusters.
• Chisholm Trail led cattle herds to railroads.
• The Homestead Act gave 160 acres of land to a
  settler.
• Rancho is a Spanish word for ranch.

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• A price collapse of mid-1880s marked the end of
  the Cattle Kingdom.
• Burning a symbol into an animals hide to show
  ownership is to brand the animal.
• One of the greatest dangers on the cattle drives
  was the stampede.
• African Americans who migrated from the Southern
  states into Kansas call themselves Exodusters.
• Homesteaders who charged across the Oklahoma
  border on April 22, 1889 were called boomers.