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Social Studies
Question | Answer |
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What is the key difference between the Native American land claims and reservation lands? | reservation lands were smaller |
Why did many Americans and immigrants move west after the Civil War? | to own land |
What did most settlers in the West do for a living? | farm and ranch |
What was the main reason that Native Americans resisted settlement of the West? | they did not want to lose their land |
Who said, "I am tired. My heart is sick and sad...I will fight no more forever." | Chief Joseph |
What was the Indian Chief who said he would fight no more forever promising to do? | to move peacefully to a reservation |
Why did homesteaders on the Great Plains build their homes from sod? | there were few trees |
Why did cattle ranchers send cattle to market by train? | trains were fast and cheap |
How did Alaska become part of the United States? | America bought it from Russia |
Why did Alaska's population grow? | gold was discovered there |
The discovery of gold and silver resulted in a **** in Colorado and Nevada. | boom |
When a **** occurred, busy western mining towns became ghost towns. | bust |
Many groups of Plains Indians signed **** with the United States to give up their land. | treaties |
The United States government setup **** for use only by Native Americans. | reservations |
On a ****, ranchers moved cattle from Texas to railroads that shipped them to Chicago. | long drive |
What is a boom town? | towns that grew very quickly |
Why did boom towns develop in the West? | the discovery of silver and gold |
How did the loss of buffalos affect Native American groups on the Great Plains? | the Indians depended on the buffalo or their basic needs. |
How did technology help settlers adapt to life on the Great Plains in the 1880s? | windmills pumped water where water could be hard to find |
What was "Seward's Folly"? | what some people called the deal to buy Alaska from Russia |
Why did "Seward's Folly" turn out to be a good deal? | because they found gold after the purchase |
Why did some Americans lead a group to take over the government of Hawaii in 1893? | Queen Liluokalani was hurting American's businesses |