Teacher: Whitlock. Chap 2: Settling the West and populist Test Review

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1 Name Class Pd Teacher: Whitlock US History Chap 2: Settling the West and populist Test Review A completed test review will be worth 100 point Daily Grade DO NOT rely on this test review only to study for test. There will be questions from notes/ video etc. that are not necessarily listed on this review!!!!! A completed test review will earn you the right to complete test corrections after the test is scored. Only those who turn in a COMPLETED test review will be given the opportunity to do test corrections Test corrections will be offered on your own time (before/after class not during class) Test corrections must be completed within 4 calendar days of taking test. Each test question correction will be worth 50 percent of original and can earn students a maximum grade of 70. Only students with a failing grade on the original test are eligible for test corrections. All work must be done individually I. Who am I? : Sitting Bull George Custer Chief Joseph buffalo (Bison) Cowboy nomad Sodbuster Plains Indian Longhorn Frederick Jackson Turner Helen Hunt Jackson Henry Comstock women William Jennings Bryan 1. Lakota Sioux chief killed at Wounded Knee 2. cavalry commander who battled (and lost) the Lakota Sioux at Little Bighorn 3. hearty breed of cattle that roamed the grasslands of TX 4. Wrote A Century of Dishonor, a book which chronicled the long history of broken treaties and injustices against American Indians 5. one who moves from place to place, usually in search of food or grazing land 6. surrendered and succumbed to reservation life after leading his Nez Perce tribe on a 1300 mi + failed journey to escape to Canada 7. theorized that the presence of a frontier had contributed to the many positive attributes of Americans 8. rounded up cattle and herded them to rail stations where they were sold for high profit 9. I am nomadic, I rely on buffalo for my survival (food, shelter, clothing), I don t understand the concept of privately owned property, I put up a fierce resistance to Army/settlers/prospectors 10. In the West, I could be a business or property owner, or an influential community leader. Many jobs were available to me that Eastern Women had no access to. Because of these opportunities for me, the West led the way in women s voting rights. 11. I staked a claim near Virginia City, Nevada that eventually produced a silver lode worth millions. This silver-strike lured a flood of prospectors into Nevada. So many came that Nevada was admitted as the 36 th US state in 1864

2 12. My near extinction caused most Plains Indians to succumb to life on reservations. 13. I was the unsuccessful candidate in the 1896 election who gained support of the Populist by making the silver issue a focus of my campaign. I was a powerful speaker, and I traveled all around the country to campaign but lost anyway. II. Things to know about Westward Expansion and the Populist Ghost Dance Reservations Land Grants Indian Wars Morrill Land Grant Act 1862 Dawes Act of 1887 Wheat Statehood Homestead Act of 1962 Barbed Wire Treaties Ghost Town Industrial Revolution Wild West Show Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 Dept. of Agriculture Dime Novels People s Party (Populist) Populism The Grange Third Parties Push migration factors Pull migration factors 14. Drought resistant crop that transformed the Great Plains into the nation s breadbasket 15. Gave 160 acres to prospective settlers and encouraged settlement of the West by offering clear title to this property after minor conditions were met 16. this invention contributed to the decline of cattle drives by fencing in the treeless range 17. RRs were given these in an effort to entice them to build tracks in the sparsely populated Plains regions 18. minerals and money from western mines helped fuel and fund this event in the east 19. This type of program featured real cowboys, Indians, buffalo and a variety of acts that helped spread ideas and legends of the American West 20. This led to the expansion of colleges across the USA as well as the introduction of 4-H and ROTC programs 21. resulted from the encroachment of ranchers, miners, and farmers onto Native American territories 22. Lands upon which Plains Indians were forced to live with specific boundaries 23. This ritual was banned by the US govt. It s performance led to the last Indian battle at Wounded Knee. 24. In an effort to assimilate the Plains Indians into white culture, this failed plan broke up reservations into individual plots for farming and/or ranching 25. The goals of this Cabinet level organization established during the Gilded Age are to provide economic opportunity in rural America, to promote agriculture production, to protect natural resources, restore forests, improve watershed and healthy private working land 26. these 10 books were popular in the Gilded Age. Many told exaggerated tales of daring that helped to spread the legend of the wild west.

3 27. this occurred to many western territories after the discovery of mining deposits and subsequent onslaught of settlers and RR expansion 28. granted US citizenship to all Native Americans born in the US 29. after mining deposits dried up, boomtowns often became these 30. As none of these were honored, it led to increased conflict between Plains Indians and US Army/settlers 31. This was the movements to increase farmers political power and work for legislation in their interest. 32. These are valuable to the political process in the US by forcing the Republican and Democratic parties to adopt their issues. They can also serve as a spoiler in close elections. 33. This was the first national farm organizations that tried to help farmers by pressuring states to regulate railroad and warehouse rates. 34. This political party was formed to increase economic and political opportunity for farmers. Its existence was short, but some of the party s platform was later adopted by the Republicans and Democrats and some of the demands (graduated income tax, eight hour workday, and restrictions immigration) eventually were realized. 35. Issues such as economic opportunity, ability to own land, and natural resources led people to move out west. 36. Issues such as a lack of economic opportunity, lack of land, and lack of natural resources forced people to move from the East to the West. III. Matching : match the following terms with the group with which it is associated. a. Miners b. ranchers c. farmers d. Indians e. Women 37. Dawes Act of Homestead Act of had opportunity to own property in West 40. Range Wars 41. long drives 42. ghost dance ritual 43. boomtowns and ghost towns 44. railheads 45. Morrill Act of A Century of Dishonor 47. Sitting Bull & Little Crow 48. Reservations 49. bonanza farms prelude to today s commercial farms 50. adversely affected by the Transcontinental RR

4 IV. Questions (answers can be found in your notes) 51. List 5 reasons for the rapid settlement of the Great Plains a. b. c. d. e. 52. List 4 reasons for the end of the Long Drives. a. b. c. d. 53. List new technology that helped solve these Great Plains challenges Lack of trees for housing = Lack of trees for fencing = Lack of Water = Indian Attacks = 54. Describe the meaning of a buffalo dead is an Indian gone. 55. According to many Americans, what was the best way to improve conditions for the Native Americans? ( V. Vocabulary 1. property; land that is owned by the gov't 2. money paid by contract at regular intervals 3. a new idea or method 4. a name given to Great Plains farmers 5. a person who moves from place to place, usually in search of food 6. the moving of cattle over trails to a shipping (rail) center 7. to absorb a group into the culture of another population 8. causing someone to acquire American traits 9. to bring under complete control; conquer 10. to change in order to meet the demands of a certain environment or circumstance 11. mining; method of mining by which water is sprayed at a very high pressure against a hill or mountain, washing away large quantities of dirt, gravel, and rock and exposing the minerals beneath the surface 12. a piece of US public land acquired by living on it and

5 cultivating it. 13. committee; self-appointed volunteers who tracked down and Punished wrong-doers 14. farm; a highly profitable wheat farm 15. vast areas of grassland owned by the federal gov't 16. a plot of land assigned to an individual or a family for a specified use 17. a region that forms the margin of settled or developed territory 18. a time of rapid economic growth 19. an ongoing increase in prices and decrease in the value of money. 20. A store where farmers buy products from each other; an enterprise owned and operated by those who use its services.