Reading Notes 1-1

Question 1

delivered the frontier thesis at the Columbian expedition in Chicago that shaped the views of the American west for several generations

Answer 1

Frederick Jackson Turner

Question 2

the essay written by Frederick Jackson Turner

Answer 2

“frontier thesis”-

Question 3

folk character that dramatized the conquest of frontiers in a stage extravaganza called “The Wild West”

Answer 3

“Buffalo Bill” Cody

Question 4

were the primary prey of hunts

Answer 4

Buffalo (American Bison)

Question 4

locations where the federal government tried to force western Indians so they might become civilized, areas that were least desirable to whites. The government promised protection from white encroachment, food, clothing and other necessities

Answer 4

Reservations

Question 5

John Chivington attacked a Cheyenne band under Black Kettle, killing almost every Indian

Answer 5

Sand Creek Massacre

Question 6

After conquering the Cheyenne in 1776, the Lakota took over the territory In 1868, the U.S. government signed the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, exempting them from all white settlement forever. However, when European Americans discovered gold there in 1874, as a result of George Armstrong Custer’s Expedition, miners swept into the area in a gold rush.(internet search)

Answer 6

Black Hills

Question 7

chiefs who led the Lakota’s and Cheyenne’s surrounded and annihilated 256 government troops at little big horn

Answer 7

Sitting Bull, crazy horse, rain in the face

Question 8

led the government troops at little big horn

Answer 8

George Armstrong Custer

Question 8

the battle between Custer and the Indians, where the indians won and Custer was killed

Answer 8

Little Big Horn

Question 8

led the Nez Percé Indians

Answer 8

Chief Young Joseph

Question 9

Northwest Indians led by Joseph young escaped reservations by fleeing to Canada who surrender to US troops

Answer 9

Nez Percé

Question 10

southwest Indians (battled whites after being forced onto reservations)

Answer 10

Apache

Question 11

American apache Indian chief

Answer 11

Geronimo

Question 12

Northern Paiute religious leader who founded the Ghost Dance movement

Answer 12

Wovoka

Question 13

a spiritual means of preserving native culture. It involved movement in a circle until the dancers reached a trancelike state and envisioned dead ancestors

Answer 13

Ghost Dance

Question 14

Custer overtook and massacred a band of starving Indians in the snow

Answer 14

Wounded Knee

Question 15

wrote a reform treatise “A Century of Dishonor”

Answer 15

Helen Hunt Jackson

Question 16

passed after congress reversed the reservation policy, it authorized the dissolution of community-owned Indian property and granted land to individual Indian families. It also awarded citizenship to those accepting allotments, and entitled the government to sell unallocated land to whites

Answer 16

Dawes Severalty Act

Question 17

school for Indians established in Pennsylvania-flagship of the government’s Indian school system

Answer 17

Carlisle School

Question 18

A site in South Dakota where the bloodiest clash between Sioux Indians and whites occurred

Answer 18

Wounded knee

Question 19

Designed to turn Indians into landowners and farmers

Answer 19

Dawes Severalty Act

Question 20

A famous scout and Indian fighter who killed nearly 4300 bison

Answer 20

Buffalo Bill Cody