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Question 1

• Early prospectors would extract shallow deposits
  of ore by what?
• Placer mining

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Question 2

• After ore deposits near the surface dwindled,
  mining corporations began using what type of
  mining?
• Quartz mining

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Question 3

• What type of Union was the Iron Molders
  International Union?
• Trade union

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Question 4

• What phrase means let people do as they
  choose?
• Laissez-faire

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Question 5

• People using the phrase Pikes Peak or Bust were
  what?
• Gold miners

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Question 6

• What manages property for others?
• Trust

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Question 7

• Why was petroleum in high demand before the
  invention of the automobile?
• It could be turned into kerosene

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Question 8

• Huge ranches that covered thousands of acres
  were called what?
• Haciendas

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Question 9

• What does laissez-faire rely on to regulate
  prices and wages?
• Free market

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Question 10

• Supporters of laissez-faire believed the
  government should interfere in the economy only
  to do what?
• Protect property and maintain peace

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Question 11

• What describes the historical significance of
  vaqueros?
• They taught their trade to American cowboys

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Question 12

• Measurements taken of Union soldiers during the
  Civil War led to the development of what?
• Ready-made clothes

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Question 13

• In 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

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Question 14

• What act began the railroad boom?
• Pacific Railroad Act

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Question 15

• In the late 1800s, workers buying power
  generally increased because why?
• Prices fell faster than wages

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Question 16

• What type of Union was the Knights of Labor?
• Industrial union

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Question 17

• A steel company that owns the coal mines,
  limestone quarries, and iron ore fields it
  depends on is an example of what?
• Vertical integration

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Question 18

• What machine changed bobbins without stopping?
• Automatic loom

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Question 19

• What did corporations hope to achieve with the
  purchase of new machines?
• Economies of scale

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Question 20

• The Chisholm Trail was a trail that did what?
• Cowboys used to drive cattle to a railroad line

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Question 21

• At first, ranchers saw barbed wire as a threat
  because it did what?
• Kept their herds from roaming freely

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Question 22

• What was a hardship faced by settlers on the
  Great Plains?
• Prairie fires

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Question 23

• How did railroad companies raise most of the
  money that was needed to build the railroad?
• Selling government land grants

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Question 24

• One approach to farming on the Great Plains was
  dry farming in which farmers did what?
• Planted seeds deep in the ground

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Question 25

• Before the Sand Creek Massacre, the Cheyenne had
  come to Fort Lyon to do what?
• Negotiate

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Question 26

• What country did rail workers that Central
  Pacific Railroad hire come from?
• China

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Question 27

• The Homestead Act gave land to homesteaders if
  they did what for 5 years?
• Lived on the land

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Question 28

• What owns stock in companies that produce goods?
• Holding company

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Question 29

• Large landholders on the Great Plains were able
  to
• Invest in the tools they needed

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Question 30

• Why did the government offer each railroad
  company land along its right-of-way?
• Encourage rapid construction of the tracks

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Question 31

• What invention enabled longer and heavier trains?
• Air brakes

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Question 32

• The fencing of the open range resulted in what?
• The end of cattle drives

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Question 33

• The Dawes Act attempted to help Native Americans
  by doing what?
• Giving them land for farming

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Question 34

• Economies of scale resulted in what?
• Lower costs and increased production

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Question 35

• The confrontation at Wounded Knee occurred
  because the chiefs followers did what?
• Performed a ritual

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Question 36

• In the 1890s, when a glut of wheat on the world
  market caused prices to drop, some farmers tried
  to survive how?
• Mortgaging their land

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Question 37

• What type of costs are wages, shipping charges,
  and supplies?
• Operating costs

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Question 38

• What did members of Congress think tariffs were
  necessary during the early day of
  industrialization?
• Protect new industries from foreign competition

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Question 39

• What type of costs are loans, mortgages, and
  taxes?
• Fixed costs

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Question 40

• Why did the army encourage the killing of the
  buffalo?
• Force Native Americans on reservations

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Question 41

• The Comstock Lode was a rich deposit of what?
• Silver

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Question 42

• Many of the first miners in the Colorado
  mountains did not find any minerals because why?
• The minerals were buried too deep