class notes 1-2

Question 1

kind of lament because of census bureau decision of no discernible frontier line, written by Frederick Jackson Turner

Answer 1

Frontier Thesis

Question 2

The two biggest Indian tribes

Answer 2

Sioux, Cheyenne

Question 3

territory reserved/preserved for them. Land that had been previously owned by them.

Answer 3

Reservation system

Question 3

kills many buffalo

Answer 3

Buffalo bill Cody

Question 4

attempt to build a road through the black hills. Bring settlers through the Sioux territory where they were not wanted

Answer 4

Bozeman Trail

Question 5

Sioux chief-sets an ambush and massacre the workers of the Bozeman trail. Sioux victory and beginning of Sioux wars.

Answer 5

Red Cloud

Question 6

Little big Horn-Sioux/Cheyenne tribes (sitting bull, crazy horse, and rain in the face) battle Custer. (Custer’s last stand) Custer is killed

Answer 6

June 15, 1876

Question 7

leads the Apache Indians and takes on the US Army. Turns himself in, learns English, and converts to Christianity

Answer 7

Geronimo

Question 8

• led the Nez Perce Indians, tries to flee to Canada, almost makes it, but is stopped by the Americans.

Answer 8

Chief Joseph

Question 9

when did Wovoka led the Ghost Dance, saw himself as an Indian Messiah.

Answer 9

1890

Question 10

led the Ghost Dance, saw himself as an Indian Messiah

Answer 10

Wovoka

Question 11

encouraged copious consumption of Paiute. Catches on with the Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee, reports get to the government about the group of Indians, troops are sent in to surround Sioux.

Answer 11

Ghost Dance

Question 12

1890- The Seventh Cavalry is sent in at Wounded Knee to disarm the Indians, the Indians start doing the Ghost Dance and there is a standoff that leads to a reverse massacre killing Indians.

Answer 12

Wounded Knee

Question 13

she wrote “A Century of Dishonor”

Answer 13

Helen Hunt Jackson

Question 13

Homestead Act for Indians. It required them to give up tribal life and they would be granted up to 120 acres of land.

Answer 13

Dawes Act

Question 14

school established for Indians in Pennsylvania.

Answer 14

The Carlisle School

Question 15

starts in Omaha and heads west

Answer 15

Union Pacific Railroad

Question 16

starts in San Francisco and heads east

Answer 16

Central Pacific Railroad

Question 17

lay out large sum of resources to get a private affair going (subsidies)

Answer 17

Land Grants

Question 18

is the largest landholder in America.

Answer 18

The U.S. Government

Question 19

where the two railroads meet. The transcontinental railroad is completed here in 1869.

Answer 19

Promontory Point- (Utah

Question 20

When is the transcontinental railroad completed?

Answer 20

1869

Question 21

Where is the transcontinental railroad completed?

Answer 21

Promontory Point

Question 22

single largest railroad owner.

Answer 22

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Question 23

president of the Central Pacific

Answer 23

Leland Stanford

Question 24

wanted to build the Great Northern Railroad he applied for subsidies and grants and was denied. He gets private funding and builds it anyway.

Answer 24

James Hill

Question 25

built by James Hill, runs from Minneapolis to Seattle and it is the one railroad that did not have to declare bankruptcy.

Answer 25

Great Northern Railroad

Question 26

builds the first airbrake system

Answer 26

George Westinghouse

Question 27

invents the Pullman sleeper car.

Answer 27

George Pullman

Question 28

organized process for measuring time.

Answer 28

Time Zones

Question 29

Western Passage of Settlers

Answer 29

Hunters/Trappers- first to head out and they were rugged individualists.
Minors/Lumberjacks- second to head out, used the land for what is growing.
Cattlemen/Cowboys- the third to head out, brought levels of stability.
Farmers- last to head out