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History Unit 4
Expansion and Conflict in West
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What was the Native Americans culture like? | Spiritual, believed hunting and planting in the Great Plains and lands were communal |
| What did Buffalo and horses provide for the Natives? | Horses were to get around and speed and mobility, Buffalo provides basic needs |
| What did white settlers believe about the Natives unclaimed land? | That the plains were unsettled and many white settlers rushed to settle in it |
| What happened in the 1850s? | Government policy shifts and the gov. takes the white settlers side more and more and gives the Natives less land |
| What was the Colorado militia that attacked and killed 150 Native women and children? | Massacre at Sand Creek |
| What's it called when conflict continues because of white encroachment om Sioux land? | Red Cloud's War |
| When Colonel Custer came to Little Big Horn and the outcome was the Natives outflanking them and crushing Custer's troops? | Battle of Little Big Horn |
| What is assimilation? | Trying to force someone to change ways if living and cultures |
| How did the Natives get assimilated by white people? | Children sent to boarding schools, ways of white, and Christianity |
| What act attempted to assimilate Natives and divided communal land to 160 acre plots to be individually owned? | The Dawes Severalty Act - 1887 |
| What was it when missionaries and gov. encouraged Native parents to send kids somewhere? | Boarding School Movement |
| What was the white philosophy? | "Kill the Indian, but save the man" |
| Why did Buffalo disappear? | Tourists and white fur traders shot buffalo for sport |
| What taught Natives to live peacefully and that a special dance would renew the world? | The Ghost Dance Movement |
| What did the Natives believe if they did the Ghost Dance? | Dead Natives come back, buffalo restored, settlers disappear, and Native lands would be restored |
| How did the gov. take the Ghost movement as? | Misunderstood it and feared it would cause an uprising |
| What happened in 1890, when troops surrounded Lakota camp? | Knee Creek |
| When shot was fired to calm Natives, soldiers opened fire, end of Native conflicts? | The Battle of Wounded Knee |
| When America announced the frontier was closed? | The 1890 Census |
| Who argued that the Frontier Experience shaped American democracy and more and was a Historian? | Fredrick Jackson Turner (Turners Frontier Thesis) |
| Who's an Author of Native experiences and with his white society experience to promote understanding? | Charles Eastman |
| Who wrote are the Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hickleburry Firm? | Mark Twain |
| What are affordable, mass produced books, often with stories about the West? | Dime Novels |
| What was the treaty between the Natives and American's that guaranteed Natives territory for four years but went to 8? | Treaty of Fort Laramie |
| What is an area of land specific to Native Americans land? | Reservation |
| What was colonel Custer's cavalry called? | 7th Calvary |
| Who wrote "A Century of Dishonor" in 1881 | Helen Hunt Jackson |
| Who was the Senator and created the Dawes act? | Senator Henry Dawes |
| Who is a famous Native American athlete who also has a town names after him in PA? | Jim Thorpe |
| In 1862, what act allowed any head of houses to obtain 160 acres of land? | Homestead Act |
| What happened when the transcontinental railroad was completed? | Rapid settlement West |
| What hardships did the settlers in the Great Plains face? | Droughts, fires, blizzards, locust swarms, and bandits |
| What house is dug out the sides if hills and ravines? | Dugouts |
| What house was in the flat plains and was freestanding and made of dirt? | Soddies |
| Who created the Steel Plow in 1837? | John Deere |
| Who created the Reaping Machine? | Cyrus McCormick |
| What is Abilene Kansas known for and the where the trail and railroad met? | Chisholm Trail |
| What demand was high because of urbanization and rise of the railroad? | Beef |
| What caused the end of open range/cattle/the long drive trail? | Overgrazing, bad weather, and the barbed wire |
| What did the Great American becoming one of the bast areas to farm in? | Breadbasket and because of New technologies for farming |
| Was the cost of transporting goods through the railroad high or low? | High causing farmers to have a cycle of debt |
| Who started the Patrons of Husbandry? | Oliver Hudson Kelley |
| What was the Patrons of Husbandry also known as? | Grange |
| What did the Patrons of Husbandry fight against? | Railroads |
| What is Populism? | Movement of the people |
| When was the Populist/Peoples party founded? | 1892 |
| What was the Populist party's economic reforms? | Rise crop price, increase money supply, lower taxes, and federal loan program |
| What was the Populist party's political reforms? | Election of senator by the people and 1 term for president (also wanted 8 hour working day and reduced immigration) |
| In the West what did the Populist party elect? | 5 senators, 3 governors, and 1,500 state legislators |
| What was the outcome of The Panic of 1893? | Railroads went bankrupt, stock market lost value, businesses and banks collapsed, many lost there jobs |
| What was the central issue of the 1896 election? | Metal of the nations Monetary System |
| What were the two sides of the 1896 election? | Bimetallism vs Gold standards |
| What is Bimetallism? | Favored both silver and gold |
| What Republican favored the Gold standard and was nominated? | William McKinley |
| What Democrat favored Bimetallism and was nominated? | Jennings Bryan |
| Who spoke the "Cross of Gold" speech? | Jennings Bryan |
| Who won the election of 1896? | William McKinley |
| What happened one McKinley was elected? | Populism collapsed |
| Who was the Sioux chief who was at the Battle of Little Bighorn and traveled with a show? | Sitting Bull |
| Who was the Native American shaman who started the Ghost Dance ritual? | Wovoka |
| What were Mexican cowboys called? | Vaqueros |
| What is the movement of African Americans from the South to Kansas? | Exodusters movement |
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