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8th
grade
Western Frontier Review Assignment Lily Milligan 8-6
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- 1. Multiple Choice
Which of the following was NOT a cow town?
Abilene, Kansas
Dodge City, Kansas
Austin, Texas
Cheyenne, Wyoming
- 2. Multiple Choice
What is one reason why the cattle kingdom ended?
Too many cattle filled the market causing prices to drop.
All the cattle died.
People didn't want cattle anymore.
Cattle carried dangerous diseases.
- 3. Multiple Choice
What were towns that grew up almost overnight?
Ghost towns
Vigilante
Cow towns
Boomtowns
- 4. Multiple Choice
Where did Henry Comstock discover the Comstock Lode?
Pikes Peak in Colorado
The banks of the Carson River in Nevada
Promontory Point in Utah
Sutter's Mill in California
- 5. Multiple Choice
What two companies built the Transcontinental railroad?
Union Pacific and Central Atlantic
Union Atlantic and Central Atlantic
Union Atlantic and Central Pacific
Union Pacific and Central Pacific
- 6. Multiple Choice
Where did the two sets of the Transcontinental railroad track meet?
Cheyenne, Wyoming
Promontory Point, Utah
Pikes Peak, Colorado
Abilene, Kansas
- 7. Multiple Choice
Which of the following was NOT a farming challenge?
Brushfires
Flooding
Hurricanes
Plagues of grasshoppers
- 8. Multiple Choice
What were boomers?
Oklahoma homesteaders
Homesteaders who claimed land before it was authorized to be claimed.
African Americans who migrated into Kansas in the 1870's.
People who took justice into their own hands.
- 9. Multiple Choice
Ranchers would identify cattle by...
Keeping them on leashes
Putting tags on them
Branding
Remembering what they look like
- 10. Multiple Choice
When did the construction of the Transcontinental railroad begin?
1840s
1860s
1870s
1850s
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