Kansas History

Railroads and Cattle Towns

Study Guide

 

 

1. Railroads received ________________ from federal government to built railroads on.

 

2. The Homestead Act did what?

 

 

3. Joseph G. McCoy was who?

 

 

4. Railroads were what type of business?

 

 

5. Baxter Springs was part of what Trail?

 

 

6. Railroads were important to the survival of Kansas’s early statehood because of ?

 

 

7. Cattle drives were forced to the western part of the state by what and whom?

 

 

8. Immigrants to Kansas brought many different cultures to Kansas. List at least two.

 

 

9. Newton was part of the __________ Trail.

 

 

10. How were cattle introduced into North America?

 

 

11. The first railroad to cross Kansas was?

 

 

12. The "Harvey House" restaurant was associated with which railroad?

 

 

13. Railroads of the late 1800’s in Kansas mainly haul _________.

 

 

14. Railroads of today in Kansas mainly haul ____________.

 

 

15. The first Railroad to come through Fort Scott was the ________________.

 

 

16. The name of the major trails that brought cattle from Texas to Kansas were ___________________, __________________, and ___________________.

 

 

17. List at least three of the problems facing pioneers.

 

 

 

18. The first major loading station in Kansas was at ___________.

 

 

19. Kansas’s most southern railroad cattle station was at _____________.

 

20. Cow towns and trails helped to give Kansas the nickname of?

 

21. Benjamin Singleton was a well known black leader of the _______________.

 

22. Many immigrants of the late 1800’s were used to build ____________________.

 

 

23. The act that allowed homesteaders land in Kansas was the?

 

 

24. Who planned and developed the majority of towns in Kansas.

 

 

Define the following words, use your notes and homework

 

Rural --

 

Land --

 

Corporation --

 

Urban --

 

Surveyor --

 

Transcontinental Railroad --

 

Capitalist --

 

Monopoly --

 

quarantine --

 

Drover --

 

round up --

 

long drive --

 

homesteading --

 

open range --

 

public domain --

 

pre-emption --

 

 

On the map locate the following places, railroads, or trails.