Ch 25 Flashcards
During this era, Indians fought whites for all but which of the following reasons: to
A. Defend their lands
B. Avenge whites’ massacres of Indians
C. Regain control of Georgia and the Carolinas
D. Preserve their nomadic way of life
C. Regain control of Georgia and the Carolinas
The Plains Indians finally surrendered when/because of
A. The army began to use artillery against them
B. They realized agriculture was profitable
C. Constant intertribal warfare
D. The US promised to provide for them on reservations
D. The US promised to provide for them on reservations
This should be paired with the elimination of the buffalo, too. Slaughtering buffalo (bison) wasn’t just a matter of poor game management - it was a conscious effort to eliminate the Indian, or at least his way of life. Very successful.
True or False
Whites who considered themselves as friends of the Indians advocated causing the Indians to lose their culture and “become white.”
True
“Kill the Indian to save the man,” was the adage; the best thing to do for the Indian was eliminate his culture and make him a “white man,” based on farming.
One of the causes of “Custer’s Last Stand” (the Battle of the Little Bighorn) was
A. Whites sought to repress the Ghost Dance
B. Custer was trying to recapture Geronimo
C. Indians had slaughtered settlers at Sand Creek
D. Whites had moved into the Black Hills, breaking a treaty
D. Whites had moved into the Black Hills, breaking a treaty
Efforts to stamp out the Ghost Dance culminated in the
A. Homestead Act
B. Battle of Little Bighorn
C. Battle of Wounded Knee
D. Fetterman Massacre
C. Battle of Wounded Knee
This “battle” was more massacre than battle, but is customarily considered the end of the Indian Wars
True or False
Even though “everyone knows” that bison/buffalo were important to Plains Indians, that is much more myth than reality.
False
Nope. Bison/buffalo were vital.
This piece of legislation dissolved many Indian tribes, meaning the government no longer had to respect the tribes’ land rights.
A. Homestead Act
B. Dawes Severalt Act
C. Grant’s “Peace Policy”
D. Kansas-Nebraska Act
B. Dawes Severalty Act
The purpose of the Homestead Act was to
A. Encourage the Indians to take up homesteading
B. Encourage the settlement of the West
C. Facilitate mining claims
D. Open Oklahoma for settlement
B. Encourage the settlement of the West
It did much toward forcing the Indians to the reservations, but its primary intent was to get people to settle the land.
State that had been preserved as a settlement for Indians - until it was opened to whites:
A. Oklahoma
B. Kansas
C. Wyoming
D. Colorado
A. Oklahoma
True or False
The “Long [Cattle] Drive” was both made - and unmade - by the railroads.
True
For a long time, Americans thought that the Great Plains would not be able to support any kind of farming. For that reason, the area was called (the)
A. Great Frontier
B. Forbidden Lands
C. Great American Desert
D. Mordor
E. Siberian Steppes
C. Great American Desert
Mining moved from solo prospectors to large-scale operations because (of)
A. Government regulations
B. Loose surface gold was gone
C. Newly-invented steam machines
D. Financial speculation in mining concerns
B. Loose surface gold was gone
True or False
The idea that MANY people went West in “gold rushes” is another myth of the Old West: relatively few people went weste for that reason, and those “rushes” had minimal impact on the West.
False
Nope. Masses of people. In San Francisco, the harbor was jammed with abandoned ships - their sailors had left to go off for gold. That gold rush (1849) was also a major draw for Chinese who’d come to own many of the claims - until California banned them from doing so.
The mining frontier played a vital role in
A. Achieving railroad reform legilation
B. Attracting the first wave of migrant, settllers West
C. Getting the US off the gold standard
D. Bringing law and order to the West
B. Attracting the first wave of migrants, settlers West
The gold and silver rushes were significant in drawing population to the West.
As settlers moved into the West, esp. past the 100th Meridan, they discovered that managing this resource was both vital and challenging:
A. Clean air
B. Water
C. Fertilizer
D. Fossile fuels (oil and coal)
B. Water
Hence, the textbook’s comments about the “hoax” of the Homestead Act and the significant role of hydraulic engineers.
Indians’ term for black soldiers that fought in the West:
two words
Buffalo Soldiers
The Comstock Lode led settlers to this state in 1859:
Nevada
