Westward Expansion and the Populist

Question 1

What new states were added to the US during the Gilded Age? (7)

Answer 1

• Montana
• Indiana
• Wyoming
• Utah
• Colorado
• North Dakota
• South Dakota

Question 2

offered 160 acres of land free to any citizen who was head of the household, however farmers have to farm the land for five years

Answer 2

Homestead Act of 1862

Question 3

gave federal land to states to help finance agricultural colleges

Answer 3

Morrill Land Grant Act

Question 4

African-Americans who moved from the post Reconstruction South to Kansas

Answer 4

Exodusters

Question 5

Native Americans would give up their beliefs and way of life and become part of white culture

Answer 5

Assimilation

Question 6

What were some common cultural misunderstandings between the US government and Native Americans?

Answer 6

gov. thought both Natives & Settlers could be farmers and individual landowners

Question 6

broke up reservations and gave land to individual Native Americans

Answer 6

Dawes Act

Question 7

schools intended to wipe out traditional Native cultures and assimilate native children into the dominant white culture

Answer 7

Assimilation Schools

Question 8

George Custer (America) vs. Sitting Bull (Sioux)
- American defeat in 1876

Answer 8

Battle of Little Bighorn

Question 9

massacre site of 300 unarmed Sioux by US soldiers

Answer 9

Battle of Wounded Knee

Question 10

site of US government massacre of Cheyenne Arapaho, 150 dead, in 1864

Answer 10

Sand Creek Massacre

Question 11

taking cattle to trains from Kansas to Nebraska (famous for Chisolm Trail)

Answer 11

the Long Drive

Question 12

Diverse group of people who guided the cows to the trains

Answer 12

Cowboys

Question 13

Origin of the Cowboys?

Answer 13

Mexican (Vacara)

Question 14

What ended the Cowboys?

Answer 14

barbed wire

Question 15

farmers tried to gain political traction by joining together

Answer 15

the Grange Movement

Question 16

called for the gov. to give more help to the farmers

Answer 16

Populist Party

Question 17

What are the 2 effects of the election of 1896?

Answer 17

• direct elections of senators
• secret ballot in voting

Question 18

the overall general upward price movement of goods and services in an economy

Answer 18

inflation

Question 19

a general decline in prices for goods and services

Answer 19

deflation

Question 20

Democratic & Populist Party Presidential nominee

Answer 20

William Jennings Bryan

Question 21

Republican Party Presidential nominee

Answer 21

William McKinley

Question 22

backing dollars solely with gold

Answer 22

Gold Standard

Question 23

supporter of gold standard

Answer 23

Gold Bug

Question 24

gov. gives citizens gold/silver in exchange for paper currency/checks

Answer 24

Bimetallism

Question 25

backed bimetallism

Answer 25

silverites

Question 26

What are the 3 reasons frontier farms decided to move west?

Answer 26

- freeland - gold - prospect of a better life

Question 27

What are 5 hardships frontier farms faced?

Answer 27

- Native American Conflict - Tornadoes - Thunderstorms - Hail - Conflict of Ranchers

Question 28

How do European Americans view land and ownership?

Answer 28

individual land ownership

Question 29

How do Native Americans view land and ownership?

Answer 29

roam on wide open space of land and follow the buffalo & use every part of it

Question 30

created so the railroads would be coordinated

Answer 30

Time Zones