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Most mining towns needed a/an ________ to determine the value of gold.
panning
played out
assayer
quartz mining
stamp mill
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An area was ________ when it no longer yielded gold.
panning
played out
assayer
quartz mining
stamp mill
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Recovering gold or silver embedded in rock requires ________.
panning
played out
assayer
quartz mining
stamp mill
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________ separates gold from gravel in a shallow wooden pan.
panning
played out
assayer
quartz mining
stamp mill
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Large rocks were crushed into sand at a/an ________.
panning
played out
assayer
quartz mining
stamp mill
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Benetsee discovered
Alder Gulch
Grasshopper Creek
Last Chance Gulch
Deer Lodge Valley
Granite Mountain
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Charles McClure discovered
Alder Gulch
Grasshopper Creek
Last Chance Gulch
Deer Lodge Valley
Granite Mountain
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John White discovered
Alder Gulch
Grasshopper Creek
Last Chance Gulch
Deer Lodge Valley
Granite Mountain
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Bill Fairweather discovered
Alder Gulch
Grasshopper Creek
Last Chance Gulch
Deer Lodge Valley
Granite Mountain
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The expression "boom and bust" explains a/an...
economic cycle.
method of hard-rock mining.
slogan for settlers heading west.
agricultural technique.
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Merchants and farmers followed prospectors because they...
wanted to get rich quickly by mining.
knew that they could get their goods to the West quickly.
knew the miners would need supplies like food and equipment.
had too much competition in the East.
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The town of Bannack grew because...
you could pull up plants and shake off gold dust from the roots.
it was the first major gold strike in Montana.
the Bannock Indians, after whom it was named, were friendly.
it had a mild climate.
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The "Fourteen-mile City" was...
a string of small town along Alder Gulch.
a city high in the mountains.
a town 14 miles from Helena.
the name of the first store in Virginia City.
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The "Georgian Method" is a...
way to learn to read.
slang term for claim-jumping.
method for building cabins in mining towns.
gold-panning technique.
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All of the following was true for the typical miner EXCEPT...
they were under thirty.
they worked long days.
they quickly struck it rich.
very few struck it rich.
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Indians and non-Indian settlers had very different attitudes about land. The critical difference was that...
non-Indian settlers believed in private ownership of land.
the Indians did not want to build farms.
the Indians wanted to keep the gold for themselves.
the non-Indian settlers did not want bison on their farmland.
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The early settlers built homes...
just like the ones they had come from.
mostly of brick.
from whatever materials were available.
to make them feel safe against Indians.
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The only racial or ethnic group to have a law specifically excluding them from Montana were the...
African Americans.
Native Americans.
Mexicans.
Chinese.
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Miners' courts were established because the miners...
did not trust the U.S. government.
needed protection from native people.
were too far away from established governments.
liked to have entertainment on Sunday by watching criminal cases.
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Sidney Edgerton was the first governor of Montana Territory. He persuaded Congress to make Montana a territory by convincing them that the...
gold fields were valuable.
native population needed to be controlled.
railroads would build only where there was a government.
Spanish were about to take over the land.
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A territory is different from a state because...
it has a smaller population.
territorial representatives could not vote in U.S. Congress.
the federal government appointed leaders.
all of the above.
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The new Montana Territory created major problems for the Indians because...
they did not speak English.
they were not protected under any laws.
they wanted to keep hunting bison on the farmland.
they did not have money to buy land.
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Quartz mining differed from placer mining for all of the following reasons EXCEPT that it...
took many more workers.
required large equipment.
was more expensive to operate.
used more water.
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The discovery of silver in Butte led to...
the U.S. government changing the gold standard.
people outside of Montana wanting to move here.
the decline of quartz mining.
the death of many mining towns.