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What replaced the Pony Express for sending messages quickly?
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Telegraph
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What is the term for a person who starts a business in the homes of making money?
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Entrepreneur
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What did Levi Strauss invent for miners?
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Jeans
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What two groups of people worked together to develop the cattle raising industry?
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Cowboys and ranchers
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What were two reasons cattle were raised?
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For their meat and their hides
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What were the places that were huge cattle pens built near railroad tracks that eventually formed cow towns?
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Stockyards
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From who did cowboys learn many of their skills?
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Mexican vaqueros
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What fraction of all cowboys were either Mexican or African American?
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1/3 (one third)
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Who was Bill Pickett?
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A famous African American cowboy who invested steer wrestling.
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What did farmers build that helped prevent cattle from trampling their crops?
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Barbed wire fences
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Who helped the farmers by developing barbed wire?
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Joseph Glidden
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Who were prospectors?
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People who searched for gold, silver, and other minerals.
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What is a boom?
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A period of economic growth
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What is a bust?
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Bad economic time
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When the mines would run out of gold and silver towns would experience a bust. This eventually lead to everyone leaving the mining town forming what?
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Ghost Towns
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