Longhorn Irrigation

1. Which of the following is a result of growth in the mining sector?
A. Decrease in crime because of the prevalence of law enforcement officers in the New Territories.
B. The rise in boom towns in areas where gold, silver, copper and lead have been found.
C. Railway stops at least in areas where mines have been built.
D. families living in community housing multiple families, due to a shortage of wood supply.

2. All the following have occurred due to the growth of mining, except:
A. The admission of North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana States
B. Create self-defense committees to fight against crime
C. A number of cities that have gone bankrupt after the minerals have disappeared
D. The increase in the price of money because of its large supply


3. Which of the following greatly stimulated the settlement of Colorado, Arizona and Montana?
A. The availability of free land
B. The arrival of a large number of minors
C. The growth of the livestock industry
D. The presence of peaceful, orderly cities

4. What city became the second largest in the West largely due to the extraction of gold and silver, which the railroads in the region?
A. Denver
San Francisco B.
C. Phoenix
D. Leadville

5. What industry greatly expanded due to growth in mining in the West?
A. Textiles
B. Communications
C. Railroad
D. cotton mills

6. Which of the following is an effect of the growth of livestock?
A. Cattle Eastern adapted for life in the Great Plains.
B. Many people set up large private ranches in California on federal land.
C. Increase in crime with bandits, taking a large number of cattle breeders
D. Several trails were created by cattle ranchers north of the Texas herd for sale.

7. All of the following resulting from the growth of livestock, except:
A. Increased sales of Longhorn cattle business in Eastern
B. Some went to Texas Longhorn breeders in other parts of the West to increase their herds.
bust boomtowns C. is when people have decided to continue farming rather than mining
D. Increased investment in the cattle people in the eastern United States and Great Britain.

8. What was a side effect of growth on livestock breeders?
A. shepherds moved their flocks to the beach open for grazing, blocking the paths of cattle.
B. Railroads began to open more stations and create more roads throughout the West.
Most people C. moved to Great Plains to own a ranch where mining has not been chosen for them.
D. Concerns have been raised about the environmental impact of livestock on open range land Longhorn.

9. Which of the following livestock do change, because he grew up?
A. More Eastern cattle breed were brought to the Great Plains.
B. Open Range Livestock closed and livestock were raised on ranches fenced by barbed wire.
C. The role of the cowboy, expanded more farmers have established their own farms.
D. The price of beef has continued to grow as the cattle went to market in the 1880s.

10. A successful approach to agriculture in the Great Plains was dry farming, where farmers
A. cooperated to build irrigation canals of the community.
B. depressions to create ponds for irrigation.
C. cultivated which could withstand long periods without rain.
D. seeds planted deep in the ground.

11. In the 1890s, when a glut of wheat on the world market caused a decline in prices, some farmers tried to survive
planting corn A. and other crops.
B. forming cooperatives.
C. mortgaging their land.
D. purchase more land to credit.
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