325V Exam 1

Question 1

Aridity and Two Forces

Answer 1

Less than ten inches of rain per year.

1. ) Subtropical high pressure.
2. ) Rain Shadow Effect.

Question 2

Land Tenure

Answer 2

Whose land is it? Whose land was it?

How should the land be used today?

Question 3

Crazy Horse

Answer 3

Indian Chief at Rosebud and Little Big Horn. Sioux tribe.

Question 4

Geronimo

Answer 4

Chiricahua Apache, led resistance to U.S. military, and eluded capture. He surrender and ended up in Ft. Still Oklahoma.

Question 5

Indian Land Claims Commison

Answer 5

The Indians had no documents about their land, only oral history. So they claim much but receive little.

Question 6

Dawes Act

Answer 6

Each family should be given 160 acres as long as they take care of it and keep it for 6 months. Many sold it after.

Question 7

Ferdinand Hayden

Answer 7

Explored what became Yellowstone National Park.

Question 8

Clarence King

Answer 8

Explored transcontinental railroad route.

Question 9

George Wheeler

Answer 9

Topographic maps. he wanted detailed maps of the west.

Question 10

John Wesley Powell

Answer 10

Report of the lands of the arid region of U.S.

Question 11

Public Land Survey System.

Answer 11

• Rectangle Survey Ordinance of 1785.

- Easily describes blocks of land for homesteading.

Question 12

Lewis and Clark Expedition

Answer 12

Explored Louisiana a few years after it was bought. Sent by Thomas Jefferson

Question 13

BLM

Answer 13

Bureau Land Management - they manage land that was left after homesteading. (the land that no one wanted)

Question 14

Two main myths Europeans had about the Americas.

Answer 14

1. ) Not very many people are there.

2. ) Landscape was barely touched.