History Ch 17

Question 1

Oliver Kelley

Answer 1

government clerk who founded organizations to provide farmers with social, cultural, and educational activities

Question 2

Frederick Jackson Turner

Answer 2

historian who wrote that the frontier shaped American character

Question 3

Joseph G. McCoy

Answer 3

founded the town of Abilene which became an important railhead for shipping cattle by train to market in Chicago

Question 4

Henry T. P. Comstock

Answer 4

the richest deposit of silver and gold discovered in 1859 near Virginia City, Nevada is named for this man

Question 5

Joseph F. Glidden

Answer 5

inventor of barbed wire providing farmers with cheap and effective fencing material

Question 6

Missouri River

Answer 6

Most wagon trains bound for the West began along this waterway

Question 7

Homestead Act

Answer 7

Legislation granting 160 acres of land to anyone who paid a filing fee and pledged to live on the land for 5 years

Question 8

Lean Bull

Answer 8

Cheyenne Chief who assured Lincoln that the Indians wanted peace, was killed by federal troops a year later

Question 9

Exodusters

Answer 9

African Americans who migrated to the west in 1879 fleeing southern oppression and discrimination

Question 10

Chief Joseph

Answer 10

Nez Perce chief who led his tribe on a phenomenal flight to Canada in 1877

Question 11

Great Plains

Answer 11

Treeless, nearly flat, grassy lands extending from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains

Question 12

1834 Indian Intercourse Act

Answer 12

Law which prohibited white people from entering Indian lands without a permit

Question 13

Sand Creek Massacre

Answer 13

November 1864 Indian massacre, Colorado militia led by Chivington attacked sleeping Indians who held up American/white flags

Question 14

Sioux War

Answer 14

War in 1865-1867 during which Sioux Indians led by Red Cloud defended their land

Question 15

Fetterman Massacre

Answer 15

1866, Sioux killed Fetterman’s troops

Question 16

Battle of the Little Big Horn

Answer 16

Custer’s army of 265 men attacked a Sioux camp, which had 2500 warriors who killed the soldiers, “Custer’s Last Stand”

Question 17

Ghost Dances

Answer 17

set of dances/rites performed by Indians to bring back Native American lands and cause whites to disappear and buffalo to return

Question 18

Wounded Knee Massacre

Answer 18

December 1890, Seventh Cavalry attacked Chief Big Foot and Sioux to get them to stop Ghost Dance religion, 200 Indians killed

Question 19

Carlisle Indian School

Answer 19

School est in 1879 in PA to train young Native Americans to adjust to white culture

Question 20

Dawes Severalty Act

Answer 20

Legislation passed in 1887 to break up traditional Indian life, divided land into plots for members of each tribe, weakened Indian culture

Question 21

“Buffalo Bill” Cody

Answer 21

Made Wild West Show in 1883, romanticized the West, killed buffalo for profit/to wipe out Indians

Question 22

Gold Rush of 1849

Answer 22

Gold strikes along the Sierra Nevada Mountains which began a mining boom in the West

Question 23

Overland Trail

Answer 23

Route taken by thousands of travelers from the Mississippi River to the Pacific coast in the last half of the 19th C., lasted at least 6 months

Question 24

Homestead Act of 1862

Answer 24

Legislation granting 160 acres of land to anyone who paid a $10 fee and pledged to cultivate the land for 5 years

Question 25

Placer mining

Answer 25

Form of mining that required little technology/skill, miners used shovel and washing pan to separate gold from ore in streams/riverbeds

Question 25

National Reclamation Act (Newlands Act)

Answer 25

1902 legislation which set aside most of the proceeds from the sale of public land in the West to fund irrigation projects

Question 26

Comstock Lode

Answer 26

Richest ore deposit in the history of mining, discovered in 1859 in Nevada

Question 27

Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

Answer 27

Legislation passed in 1882 that excluded Chinese immigrant workers for 10 years and denied citizenship to Chinese nationals in the US

Question 28

Open range ranching

Answer 28

Cattle ranching in a vast fenceless area extending from the Texas panhandle north into Canada

Question 29

Joseph G. McCoy

Answer 29

Livestock shipper from Illinois who came up with the idea to drive cattle to railheads in Kansas and ship them to eastern markets

Question 30

Abilene

Answer 30

Small, dead town in Kansas where cattle where shipped to eastern markets

Question 31

Cowboys

Answer 31

Cattle ranchers/herders, vaqueros, branded/roped/rounded up cattle on the range

Question 32

Ranching

Answer 32

Moving herds of cattle from place to place

Question 33

Homesteaders

Answer 33

Those who settled the west and brought an end to the open ranch

Question 34

Exodusters

Answer 34

Group of six thousand African Americans who left Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas in 1879 to be freer in Kansas as farmers or laborer a

Question 35

Oliver H. Kelley

Answer 35

Department of Agriculture clerk who founded the Grange to provide excitement to the lives of farmers

Question 36

National Grange of the Patrons if Husbandry

Answer 36

Founded in 1867 to provide social, educational, and cultural activities for farmers, set up stores, warehouses, machinery factories, etc

Question 37

Fredrick Jackson Turner's thesis

Answer 37

1893 idea that the frontier and it's settlement had shaped American character