How did the lives of American people change 1877-1890?

Question 1

Lives of Native Americans

how did white hunters forced Indians onto reservations

Answer 1

slaughter of millions of buffalo by white hunters using railroads

Question 2

Lives of Native Americans

what did poor land on reservations lead to

Answer 2

disease + mass starvation

Question 3

Lives of Native Americans

what rules did the US gov put on reservations

how they should live

Answer 3

-split up tribes on reservations
-banned hunting
-took over courts
-forced them to live farming

Question 4

Lives of Native Americans

what religion were Indians forced to convert to

Answer 4

Christianity

Question 5

Lives of Native Americans

where were native american children sent

Answer 5

boarding schools

Question 6

Lives of Native Americans

why where NA children sent to boarding schools

Answer 6

to learn white ideas

Question 7

Lives of Native Americans

when was the Dawes Act

Answer 7

1887

Question 8

Lives of Native Americans

what did the Dawes act

Answer 8

gave NA men full citizenship + 160 acres in exchange for tribal lands

Question 9

Lives of Native Americans

what did ghost dancers do

Answer 9

prayed for the return of the buffalo + whites to be swept

Question 10

Lives of Native Americans

what happened at Wound Knee 1890

Answer 10

250 ghost dancers + sitting bull murdered

Question 11

Lives of Native Americans

when was Wound Knee

Answer 11

1890

Question 12

Lives of Native Americans

when did the remaining ghost dancers give up

Answer 12

Jan 1891

Question 13

Lives of African Americans

what where blacks in the South trapped in

Answer 13

low-paid work as sharecroppers

Question 14

Lives of African Americans

how many black Ams became homesteaders in Kansas

Answer 14

6000

Question 15

Lives of African Americans

how did black Ams become homesteaders in Kansas

Answer 15

under the homestead act

Question 16

Lives of African Americans

what did Booker T. Washington

Answer 16

set up schools for blacks
National Negro Buisness League

Question 17

Lives of African Americans

what did Booker Washington teach in his schools

Answer 17

mainly manual skills

Question 18

Lives of African Americans

what were the 1890s segregation laws in Southern States called

Answer 18

Jim Crows Laws

Question 19

Lives of African Americans

impacts of Jim Crows Laws

Answer 19

• white schools given 10x more fundings
• ‘redeemer’ govts > literacy tests to stop blacks voting

Question 20

Lives of African Americans

how many blacks killed in 1891 from the influence of the KKK

Answer 20

161

Question 21

Lives of African Americans

what happened to KKK murderers

Answer 21

few arrests or trails

Question 22

Lives of African Americans

a way the KKK commonly hurt black people

Answer 22

lynching

Question 23

Big buisnesses, cities and mass migration

ways the industry developed

Answer 23

-cotton mills doubled in no
-tobacco increased
-demand for coal increased in North so production increased in the South

Question 24

Big buisnesses, cities and mass migration

why did small ranchers go bust

Answer 24

beef prices fell

Question 25

# Big buisnesses, cities and mass migration what did the harsh winter of 1886-7 cause

Answer 25

millions of cattle killed

Question 26

# Big buisnesses, cities and mass migration why did the govt limited chinese entry

Answer 26

after riots

Question 27

# Big buisnesses, cities and mass migration example of a surge in migration | italy

Answer 27

1890s 600,000 from italy alone

Question 28

# Big buisnesses, cities and mass migration examples of rapid urbanisation

Answer 28

over 100,000 cities 14 in 1870, 38 in 1900

Question 29

# Big buisnesses, cities and mass migration when were elevators and skyscrapers invented

Answer 29

1880s

Question 30

# Big buisnesses, cities and mass migration what percentage of babies died before one in part of Chicago

Answer 30

60%

Question 31

# Big buisnesses, cities and mass migration where did migrants live in 1880s

Answer 31

slums