7th SS Chapter 10.1 - 10.3 Study Guide

Question 1

What were some of the demands of the Populist Party>

Answer 1

1. An 8 hour workday
2. Limits on immigration
3. “Free Silver” - wanted all solve mind in the West to be coined into money

Question 2

What are subsidies?

Answer 2

Financial aid or land grants from the government.

Question 3

The Union Pacific hired mainly from these two groups?

Answer 3

1. Immigrants from Ireland
2. African Americans
3. Mexican Americans

Question 4

Who was the Apache leader who led raids in Arizona in the 1880’s?

Answer 4

Geronimo

Question 5

When did these territories become states?
Colorado -
Montana -
North Dakota -
South Dakota -
Washington -
Wyoming -
Idaho -

Answer 5

Colorado - 1876
Montana - 1889
North Dakota - 1889
South Dakota - 1889
Washington - 1889
Wyoming - 1890
Idaho - 1890

Question 6

Chaps, sombreros, and lariats were the tools of the trade for which group?

Answer 6

Vaqueros

Question 7

Where did the Indian Peace Commission recommend that native Americans be moved?

Answer 7

Urged the Native Americans to settle down in reservations (in present day Oklahoma and North Dakota) and live as white farmers did,

Question 8

What happened at the Battle of Wounded Knee?

Answer 8

Upset by the death of Sitting Bull, groups of Lakotas fled the reservations. When they were preparing to surrender, a shot suddenly rang out (accidentally) and the army opened fire. By the time the shooting stopped, nearly 300 native Americans and 25 soldiers were dead. It marked the end of the Ghost Dance religion.

Question 9

What nomadic Plains group followed the buffalo?

Answer 9

Plains Indians - Pawnees

Question 10

What are three ideas formulated by the Populist party and adopted by the government?

Answer 10

1. To raise farm prices
2. To regulate railroad rates
3. Income tax

Question 11

Which tribes lived in the northern plains?

Answer 11

1. Arikaras
2. Lakotas
3. Apache

Question 12

Where in the Dakotas was gold discovered?

Answer 12

Black Hills

Question 13

Where were the sodbusters farming? (Geographic area)

Answer 13

Great Plains

Question 14

What was the purpose of the Dawes Act?

Answer 14

To encourage native Americans to become farmers. Some reservations were divided up and given to individual native American families. Was a major change in the government’s policy toward native Americans.

Question 15

What group formed the Populist Party?

Answer 15

Farmers and labor unions

Question 16

General George Armstrong Custer was defeated by ________ and _______.

Answer 16

Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse

Question 17

The Omaha and the Osage lived as both farmers and ________.

Answer 17

Hunters

Question 18

Chinese laborers worked primarily for which rail company?

Answer 18

Central Pacific Railroad

Question 19

What was connected by the transcontinental railroad?

Answer 19

The East and West coast of the United States - Uniting the country

Question 20

What was the Ghost Dance and who did it involve?

Answer 20

A religious ceremony that celebrated the time when Native Americans lived freely on the Plains. To bring about this new world, all the Native Americans had to dance.

Question 21

By who were the time zones created?

Answer 21

The Railroad Companies

Question 22

What group beat the ‘boomers” to Oklahoma?

Answer 22

“Sooners” had sneaked into Oklahoma before the official opening and had staked out much of the best land.

Question 23

Tough breed of cattle that was easy to raise in the West?

Answer 23

Longhorns

Question 24

What were open range ranches?

Answer 24

Ranchers would let their cattle run wild on the open range

Question 25

What is the purpose of a brand?

Answer 25

Each ranch had its own brand that was burned into the cow’s hide as a means of identification

Question 26

What was the National Grange?

Answer 26

In 1867, farmers formed the National Grangers with the intent of boosting farm profits and reducing the rates that railroads charged for shipping grain. They hoped famers set up cooperatives - to pool money to buy supplies as wholesale prices.

Question 27

The last Native American to formally surrender to the United States?

Answer 27

Apaches

Question 28

One of the ever present dangers of a cattle drive is the stampede. What is a stampede?

Answer 28

When a group of cattle goes lose and runs away.

Question 29

Who competed against the Union Pacific in building the transcontinental railroad ?

Answer 29

Central Pacific Railroad

Question 30

Which group used dry farming?

Answer 30

Sodbusters