9th Jan

Question 1

How many people did a territory need to join the union

Answer 1

60,000

Question 2

What is Manifest Destiny

Answer 2

Expansion was justified

Question 3

Which country did America defeat to win the South West in 1848

Answer 3

Mexico

Question 4

How did Mountain men encourage future travellers to go west

Answer 4

Gold

Question 5

Name one way the Donner Party and other pioneers encouraged further development

Answer 5

letters back to east

Question 6

Give three reasons why the Mormons were persecuted in the east

Answer 6

Economic competitiveness rise in land cost

Question 7

What was the Perpetual Emigrating Fund

Answer 7

All expenses paid journey for new recruits to the Mormon religion

Question 8

When was Gold discovered in California

Answer 8

24th jan 1848

Question 9

Name 5 different ethnic groups that went west for gold

Answer 9

Chinese, eastern Anglo Americans, Mexicans, Europeans, freed slaves (African Americans

Question 10

In what year did California become a state as a result of the Gold Rush immigration

Answer 10

1850

Question 11

Give 5 different entrepreneurial jobs that developed as a result of the Gold Rush

Answer 11

prostitution, gambling, tool shops, b and bs, saloons (pub), bridge tolls, ferries, food, Levis jeans

Question 12

Why were the Sioux nomadic?

Answer 12

Followed buffalo

Question 13

Why was the tipi the perfect shelter for the Sioux? 2 reasons

Answer 13

Easy to take up and down quickly, easy to transport, used resources available (buffalo skin), cool

Question 14

Why did the Sioux practise polygamy

Answer 14

Braves lost in hunting/war. Distinct gender roles (e.g. men hunted) meant that women and children of dead braves/warriors would be looked after

Question 15

What did the Sioux usually go to war over?

Answer 15

Horse theft

Question 16

Why did Sioux scalp their Eminems

Answer 16

Trophies

Question 17

Did the Sioux own land

Answer 17

No

Question 18

How did the chief get to his position

Answer 18

Chosen by council, elders

Question 19

Why did the Sioux and American government find it difficult to negotiate who owned the Plains

Answer 19

Americans veiled in owning land unlike the Sioux

Question 20

What was the Bureau of Indian Affairs

Answer 20

A government department

Question 21

What did the Indian Removal Act of 1830 set up?

Answer 21

A ‘Permanent Indian Frontier

Question 22

When was the first Fort Laramie Treaty passed

Answer 22

1851

Question 23

Name TWO terms of the first Fort Laramie treaty

Answer 23

Sioux promised not to attack

Question 24

Who supported the ‘exterminator’ solution to the Indian problem

Answer 24

Westerners

Question 25

What was the Homestead Act, 1862

Answer 25

160 acres of free land

Question 26

Why did the government want settlement on the Great Plains? (two reasons

Answer 26

Unify America (especially after the start of the Civil War between the North and South), defeat the Sioux, deal with overcrowding (immigration) and high land prices in the eastern states

Question 27

Give 2 reasons why the Transcontinental Railroad was built 1863-1869?

Answer 27

Unite USA east to west

Question 28

How did the government pay the Railroad builders (Union Pacific and Central Pacific)?

Answer 28

Government grants after 40 miles of track built and 12,000 acres of land for every 1 mile of track built.

Question 29

Which railroad company had to deal with Sioux attacks?

Answer 29

Union Pacific (from the east to the west across the Plains)

Question 30

Why did the Sioux attack the railroad

Answer 30

Cut through buffalo hunting grounds, brought more settlers out west

Question 31

The first Sioux war is known as the Cheyenne War, 1863-67. What caused it?

Answer 31

Some Cheyenne Sioux refused to live on reservations and attacked railroad, settlers, miners, ranchers etc

Question 32

Why was Sandcreek (1864) a 'massacre'?

Answer 32

700 soldiers of the Colorado militia attacked mostly women, children and elderly

Question 33

What were the terms of the Second Fort Laramie Treaty, 1868? (name 3)

Answer 33

The government withdrew soldiers from the forts

Question 34

Name two results of the Mountain Meadow Massacre

Answer 34

1858 - Mormons were pardoned and US Army stationed in Utah

Question 35

How did Slavery cause the American Civil War 1861-65?

Answer 35

Although there were many differences between the north and the south, slavery was the underlying cause

Question 36

How did the 1860 Election cause the American Civil War 1861-65?

Answer 36

Nobody expected the Republican Abraham Lincoln to win, but the Democrats split in half

Question 37

How did Secession cause the American Civil War 1861-65?

Answer 37

South Carolina and then Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia and Texas voted to leave the Union and become the Confederacy. Lincoln would not let them leave a

Question 38

The 1850 Compromise allowed California to join as a free state, but in exchange for what

Answer 38

The Fugitive Slave Act meant that Northern states must return any escaped slaves to the south

Question 39

What was the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act and how did it contribute to the war?

Answer 39

Let new states decide if they were slave free

Question 40

Give3 reasons why the southern economy was more badly affected than the north

Answer 40

The south was agricultural, when men went off to fight plantations failed and profits were lost. The north had a navy and blocked trade to the south, this caused inflation and food shortages.