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- 1. Multiple Choice
Most mining towns needed a/an ________ to determine the value of gold.
panning
played out
assayer
quartz mining
stamp mill
- 2. Multiple Choice
An area was ________ when it no longer yielded gold.
panning
played out
assayer
quartz mining
stamp mill
- 3. Multiple Choice
Recovering gold or silver embedded in rock requires ________.
panning
played out
assayer
quartz mining
stamp mill
- 4. Multiple Choice
________ separates gold from gravel in a shallow wooden pan.
panning
played out
assayer
quartz mining
stamp mill
- 5. Multiple Choice
Large rocks were crushed into sand at a/an ________.
panning
played out
assayer
quartz mining
stamp mill
- 6. Multiple Choice
Benetsee discovered
Alder Gulch
Grasshopper Creek
Last Chance Gulch
Deer Lodge Valley
Granite Mountain
- 7. Multiple Choice
Charles McClure discovered
Alder Gulch
Grasshopper Creek
Last Chance Gulch
Deer Lodge Valley
Granite Mountain
- 8. Multiple Choice
John White discovered
Alder Gulch
Grasshopper Creek
Last Chance Gulch
Deer Lodge Valley
Granite Mountain
- 9. Multiple Choice
Bill Fairweather discovered
Alder Gulch
Grasshopper Creek
Last Chance Gulch
Deer Lodge Valley
Granite Mountain
- 10. Multiple Choice
The expression "boom and bust" explains a/an...
economic cycle.
method of hard-rock mining.
slogan for settlers heading west.
agricultural technique.
- 11. Multiple Choice
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.
- 12. Multiple Choice
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.
- 13. Multiple Choice
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.
- 14. Multiple Choice
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.
- 15. Multiple Choice
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.
- 16. Multiple Choice
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.
- 17. Multiple Choice
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.
- 18. Multiple Choice
The only racial or ethnic group to have a law specifically excluding them from Montana were the...
African Americans.
Native Americans.
Mexicans.
Chinese.
- 19. Multiple Choice
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.
- 20. Multiple Choice
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.
- 21. Multiple Choice
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.
- 22. Multiple Choice
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.
- 23. Multiple Choice
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.
- 24. Multiple Choice
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.
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