Western Expansion

Question 1

Dime Novels

Answer 1

Books that exaggerated the tails of the wild west, filled with adventure, hardship, and daring rescues. Larger than life

Question 2

Wild Bill Hickok

Answer 2

Legend began in Springfield, he killed someone over a gambling dispute. Stories about him were very exaggerated, joined Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show, he was killed over a game of poker

Question 3

Manifest Destiny

Answer 3

Americans were meant to settle all land between the Atlantic and Pacific

Question 4

Homestead Act of 1862

Answer 4

Offered plots of land in the region, 160 acres as long as they lived and cultivated it for 5 years but it was not enough to make a profit

Question 5

Exodusters

Answer 5

African Americans who made their exit from the South after Reconstruction failed to end racial issues

Question 5

John Deere

Answer 5

produced a plow tough enough to break through the dense soil in the prairies

Question 6

Mexican Varqueros

Answer 6

OG cowboys, American cowboys ripped off their image from them. They wore wide brimmed hats, thin leather jackets. leather pants with buttons down the sides, Botas (leg wraps), and colorful woven blankets (serapes)

Question 7

After the California gold rush of 1849

Answer 7

Gold and silver was found in Colorado, Montana, and Dakotas, some copper was found in NM and AZ

Question 8

Lots of wealth in an area meant

Answer 8

The creation of a boomtown

Question 9

Reservoirs

Answer 9

Contained bodies of water that can be tapped

Question 10

Ogallala Aquifer

Answer 10

Past 15,000 years, water has been slowly collecting in spaces between the underground sand and gravel grains. Now it helps two wheat, corn, and beef in U.S.

Question 11

When was the Famers Alliance created

Answer 11

1870s in Texas because of they struggled with falling prices and an abundance of agricultural products, peoples lives were destroyed by bugs, those who survived wanted to bring a dew industry to the region, thus creating the F.A.

Question 12

Subtreasury System

Answer 12

Idea to resolve overproduction, government had storage silos and famers would store crops, in exchange government gets small percentage of profits

Question 13

Colored Farmers National Alliance

Answer 13

Created after A.A. were banned from joining white farmers alliances, created in 1886

Question 14

People’s Party/Populist Party

Answer 14

1892, Farmers alliance leaders formed a new party

Question 15

Populism

Answer 15

Ordinary people should control the government

Question 16

Sand Creek Massacre

Answer 16

Gov of CO asked to meet with the Cheyenne, volunteer militia killed unarmed innocent people

Question 17

The Little Bighorn

Answer 17

Custer attacked the Lakota after Custer video the treaty (government wanted the Lakota out of the land), Lakota won, but the government pushed them onto a reservation

Question 18

Dawes Severalty Act

Answer 18

Divided reservations into land sections of 160 acres, those who received it were expected to establish farms, if they could farm then they could be U.S. citizens, allowed public to purchases any unassigned land

Question 19

Ghost Dance Movement

Answer 19

A vision that a rescuer would appear and destroy the white men and lead the tribes to victory

Question 20

Wounded Knee

Answer 20

US Army confronted Lakota Ghost dancers at Wounded Knee Creek after the death of Sitting Bull, wanted them to give up their weapons, went down hill from there

Question 21

Chief Joseph

Answer 21

Fought for his people, retreated to Canada, surrendered at Bear Paw, was sent to settle in Oklahoma

Question 22

Geronimo

Answer 22

Fought for his people, resisted forced government confinement, was sent to Florida as an exile