Chapter 26

Question 1

nai and whites on the plains

Answer 1

nai transformed themselves from foot-traveling and crop grpwong to wide ranging nomadic traders
whiteintruders spread disease
whites had their livestock graze on the grass, hunting buffal
buffalo pop smaller = more war b/w tribes
fed gov tried tp pacify plains nai by creating treaties

Question 2

reservation system

Answer 2

established boundaries
created space for white settlements
tried to form 2 colonies but failed
1860s: hearded nais to smaller lands
nai surrendered only after gov promised they would be left alone and be provided basic food and supplies
nai agents ere corrupt and gave defective provisions`

Question 3

sand creek massacre

Answer 3

colonel chivington’s militia massacred 400 nai in cold blood

Question 4

fetterman massacre

Answer 4

na ambushed cap fetterman’s command nad left no survivors

Question 5

after little bighorn

Answer 5

nez perce nai tried to fight being herded to a res but were hearded to kansas
apache tribes ;ead by gernim were pursued into mexico but were eventualy hearded to oklahoma
losses shattered spirts of nai

Question 5

battle of little bighorn

Answer 5

cause: fetterman massacre
gov abonded bozeman trial and land was given to sioux
1874: custer siad he discovered gold in the resorvation and gold seekers swarmed
sioux w/ chynne and arapacbo fought
colonel custes 7th calvary was called to suppress the nai
nai won

Question 6

reaosns for nai loses

Answer 6

RR could bring troops, supplies
disease
military force
almost extermination of buffalo

Question 7

hunting buffalo

Answer 7

food
hides for clothing, lariats, and harnesses
RR started the massacre of the Buffalo
hunting for fun
less 1000 alive by 1885

Question 8

calls for change of nai

Answer 8

helen hunt jackson wrote “a century of dishonor” chronicalling teh govs ruthlessness w/ nai
humanitarians wanted to treat nai kindly while hardliners insisted on current policy

Question 9

battle of wounded knee

Answer 9

“ghost dance” s[read to dakota sioux and the army stampted it out

Question 10

whitening the nai

Answer 10

christians administered schools on reservations to convert the nai
1884: outlawed the usn dance
dawes severlatory act

Question 11

dawes severlatory act

Answer 11

dissolved many trives as legal entities, wiped out tribal ownership of land, and setup individual nai family heds w/ 160 acres
of they behaved, they can become citizens
former reservation land was to be used for RRs
tried to make individualists out of Nai and ignored their culture
nai pop started to grow
replaced w/ indian reorganization act of 1934

Question 12

boarding schools

Answer 12

taught women sewing and preched chasity
Charlisle indian school
“kill the indian and save the men”

Question 13

mining craze

Answer 13

gold craze turned from cali to the rockies
more miners than minerals
“fifty-niners” or “pikes peakers”
went to nevada after comstock lode had been discoevered
boomtowns;hell dorados were made
ghosttowns when minerals ran out
orebreaking machinery

Question 14

mininf indystry

Answer 14

attracted the pop and wealth
women and men found opportunities
metals helped finance the civil war , facilitate the buildingin og RN and created conflit b.w whites and NAI
ore breaking machiens used by cooperatio only
could resume specie payments

Question 15

cattle induststy

Answer 15

cattle used for hides bc meat was not profitable
cattle cou;d be shipped alive to stockyards in RR
meatpacking indsrut formed
texas cowboys drpve herds until they reached cowtowns
homesteaders and sheep farmers built the barbed wire fences around property
harsh winters killed cows
overexpansion and ocergrazing
breeders learned to fence their ranches and organize

Question 16

giving farmers land

Answer 16

homestead act of 1863 allwed or 160 acres by living on it for 5 yrs and improvin the land
gave away land to encouage filling of empty spaces and stimulated fam farm
bad farming land w/ tough soil
coportaions would used dummy homesteads to grab the best property containing resources
RR made migration esauer
droght resistant wheat, grewing sorghum instead of corn
federal financed irrigation

Question 17

the west grows

Answer 17

w experienced a pop growth in 1870s and 1880s
repub congress admitted 6 new states: n + s daktoa, montana, washington, idaho, wyoming
mroman church banned polygamy and utah was admitted
fed made aviable vast sketches of fertile plains
oklhaoma made ready for settlers + was made a territory

Question 18

end of frontier

Answer 18

“the signifcance of the frontier in american history” by fredrick jackson tyler
gov started settlign aside land for national parks
ended romantic phase of nation’s internal development and created economic and psycholoigal problems
farmers coulnt be mobline
end of “saftey valve”
last nai struggles
anglo and spanish cultures combined
fed plaued biggest tole in econominc and social deveolpment

Question 19

signifiance of frontier

Answer 19

moved immigratns to w
induced high enough wages to keep peeps from moving w
safetly valve posibility

Question 20

the farm modernizes

Answer 20

high prives made farmers conce trate on growing single cash crops
fermers bought expensive equipment an fbecame business people
speed of harvesting increased
drove away small farmers and swelled ranks of indusrial work force
a became world’s breadbasket and butcher shop
large farms

Question 21

deflation

Answer 21

one crop = bad when priecs fee;
grian prices were determined by a world market
had to pay loand at orginal value
low prices and deflatde $ were fears of farmers
non enough money = prices go down
fprgetten farmers left away at a loss
farm machinery increased output and lowered price
high rates on mortagages
farms operated ny tenants

Question 22

bad weather

Answer 22

grasshoppers ravaged farms
floods increased erosion
droughts along trans-miss W

Question 23

farmers gouged by gov

Answer 23

land was overassessed + paid high local taeze
hugh protective tariffs only helped manufactured
low prices in unprotected world market
at mercy of trusts

Question 24

the National Grange of the Patrions of Husbandry

Answer 24

leader oliver h kelley
1st objective was to enhanve lives of isplated farmers therough social, eduactional, and fraternal activities
estblished coo[eratovely owned stores for consumers and owned grian elevators and warehouses
many grange laws were reversed throuh courts
Greenback Labor party

Question 25

farmer’ alliance

Answer 25

farmers came together to socialize and break grop of RR and maunfacturers through cooperative buying and selling
chapters spread throgu S and great plains
weakened itself by ignoring the plight of landless tenet farmers and sharecroppers and black farmers
formed the populists

Question 26

the populists

Answer 26

called for nationalizing the RRs, telephones, telegraphs, instituting a graduated income tax, and creating new subtreasury
wanted unlimited silver
1 mil votes for candudated james b weaver

Question 27

general jacob s cozey

Answer 27

panic of 1893 strenghtedn populist farmers and laboreres cause
coxey set out for washington in 1894 q/ supporters
platform included a demand that gov relieve unemployment
“commonwealth army”

Question 28

pullman strike

Answer 28

eugene b debs
pullman car company was hit by depression and cut wages
af of l declined support
us attonry general urged for the dispatch of troops and was supported by cleveland
troops crushed by strikes
stikers could be imprisoned w/out trial by jury

Question 29

election of 1896

Answer 29

issues of depression, wage cuts, and ometary policy
repub nomineeL william mckinely
platform condmened hard times and democrartic incapacity
dem noineeL william jennings bryan
“cross of gold speech”
platform damned inflation through silver
populists scared of hard money mckinely endorsed bryan

Question 30

mckinely campaign

Answer 30

repub business played contracts contigent on mckiley win and told workers not to come to work if bryan won
hamas campaigned methods worked
worker had no reason to gavor inflation
mckinely won for big business, cities, midclass, and conservative finances

Question 31

mckinely in office

Answer 31

shyed away from reform
business was fiven free reign
digley tariff bull assed and raised rates to 46.5%
money issue went away after depression
gold standard act of 1900

Question 32

fourth party system

Answer 32

1896 to 1932 that was dominated by the Republican Party

Question 33

fredrick jackson turner

Answer 33

frontier thesis

Question 34

marcus alonzo hanna

Answer 34

mckinelys campaign manager