Question

directions: circle the social studies skill words (verbs) & underline the subject for each sentence. unit 5: progressive era & imperialism (11 days) examine connections between the rise of big business, the growth of technological innovations. including steel and oil. 19. the plains indians rely on the ____ & worship it, wasting __ of their kill. 20. facing starvation, the native americans are forced onto __. 21. the new breed of cattle is the texas __. 22. herds are worth up to __. 23. __ fencing was designed to keep livestock off a person’s land. 24. __ and his soldiers attack a camp with 7,000 native americans at little big horn. the result was the deaths of all the __. 25. december 29, 1890 - the sioux __ near wounded knee creek. a gun goes off, & within minutes, 200 __ are dead. 26. americans used to set their clocks by the __, with 8000 different times along the rail lines, making scheduling __. 27. november 18, 1883 - the continental us is reduced to __ time zones. 28. the railroad is now the largest __ in america. 29. __ had the first mail - order catalog, processing 35,000 orders a day. 30. the us overtakes __ as the largest manufacturer on earth, producing ____ of the world goods.

Explanation:

Answer:

1. buffalo; parts
2. reservations
3. long - horn
4. thousands of dollars
5. Barbed - wire
6. George Armstrong Custer; soldiers
7. camp; Sioux
8. local time; difficult
9. four
10. industry
11. Montgomery Ward
12. Britain; a third