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Chapter 18 Review
Chapter 18 Test Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What was the significance for having the golden spike driven into the transcontinental railroad? | It was where the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroad lines met |
| What was a major characterization of a boomtown in the West. | sudden, rapid growth of the town |
| What was the transcontinental railroad built to connect. | the eastern U.S. to the west |
| What pushed the western boundary of the American frontier to the Pacific Ocean after the Civil War. | annexation of the state of California to the United States |
| Who were the main users of the Chisholm Trail and why? | cowboys used the Chisholm Trail to drive cattle to Abilene Kansas |
| What was the main activity of a cowboy? | driving cattle |
| What invention contributed to the end of the Open Range? | barbed wire |
| How did the Plains Indians survive? | hunting buffalo |
| Why was the Massacre at Wounded Knee significant? | it was the worst defeat the U.S.army suffered in the Great Plains |
| What was the government's intentions of establishing reservations for the Plains Indians? | get the Indians off of the land so the settlers could use their land for mining and ranching |
| Why did Custer insist that the Sioux give up their reservation land in the Black Hill? | his troops had discovered gold there and he did not want the Indians to get to the gold |
| What was the Treaty of Fort Laramie? | it was the first major treaty between the U.S. government and Plains Indians |
| Who did the Plains Indians call the buffalo soldiers? | the African American calvary |
| What is a reservation (in the context of the history of the west)? | a tract of public land set aside for Native Americans |
| What led to the Long Walk of 1864? | raids by the U.S. troops left the Navajo without food and shelter, forcing them to surrender |
| Who was Sarah Winnemucca? | she gave lectures on problems of the reservation system |
| Who were the Exodusters? | former slaves who moved from the South to Kansas |
| What was dry farming? | growing of crops that do not need irrigation |
| What was the main cause for the economic deflation of the late 1800s? | the money supply grew more slowly than the nation's population |
| The National Grange was an organization created on behalf of _____________. | farmers |
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