American West

Question 1

Oregon trail

Answer 1

5000Km. 5 months, mountains, dangerous. Wagon trains.

Question 2

Donner party

Answer 2

disaster – new trail, split up, snow in mountains. Cannibals.

Question 3

Mormons

Answer 3

to Salt Lake City. Successful migration. Planning, advanced party.

Question 4

Gold rush

Answer 4

San Francisco gangs
•Early problems of farming.
•Civil War

Question 5

Homestead act 1862

Answer 5

160 acres, $10 plot

Question 6

Pacific railroad act 1862

Answer 6

Built from both ends. Sold land along the track.

Question 7

Transcontinental railway

Answer 7

Good for settlers, farmers
Bad for Indians
Homesteaders solved farming problems

Question 8

When was timber culture act?

Answer 8

1873

Question 9

Exoduster movement

Answer 9

1879 (Freed black slaves from S to Kansas)

Question 10

Oklahoma land rush

Answer 10

midday charge for plots of land. Whites took last Indian land in reservations.

Question 11

1830 - Indian removal act

Answer 11

Moved from east to Great Plains

Question 12

1834 - Indian trade and intercourse act

Answer 12

Permanent Indian frontier set up.

Question 13

1851 - Indian appropriation act

Answer 13

Set up reservations to ‘civilise’ the Indians, as whites wanted more land

Question 14

1851 - fort Laramie treaty

Answer 14

To solve conflict between whites on the Oregon trail and the Indians.

Question 15

1868 - president grants peace policy

Answer 15

Improve reservations, but Indians seen as hostile if didn’t go.

Question 16

1868 - 2nd fort Laramie treaty

Answer 16

Closed Bozeman trail and Sioux move to the great Sioux reservations