chapter 13-Settling the west

Question 1

Before the Civil War, the area west of the 100 meridian was considered the ____.

Answer 1

Great American Desert

Question 2

most settlement in the west was located ___.

Answer 2

along the railroads

Question 3

Railroads received huge ______ from the government in order to raise money to build the train tracks.

Answer 3

Land Grants

Question 4

many western settlers were enticed to move west by the government’s ____

Answer 4

Homestead Act

Question 5

Before local government was organized in western settlements, law and order was enforced by ____.

Answer 5

Vigilantes

Question 6

The ____ industry would lead the way for settlements in the mountain west.

Answer 6

mining

Question 7

____ mining was big business.

Answer 7

Quartz mining

Question 8

lone prospectors operated small ____ mines.

Answer 8

Placer mines

Question 9

The city of ____ became the supply depot for miners in the Rockies.

Answer 9

Denver City

Question 10

What precious metal was found in Leadville, Colorado?

Answer 10

Silver

Question 11

This was a huge silver find in Colorado?

Answer 11

Comstock Lode

Question 12

The Great Plains’ industry in the late 1800s was ____.

Answer 12

Ranching

Question 13

Ex civil war soldiers, freedmen, Mexicans were all ____ of the West’s Great Plains.

Answer 13

cowboys

Question 14

The first _____ occurred along the cattle trail from Texas to Sedalia Missouri in 1866.

Answer 14

Long-drive of cattle

Question 15

The most famous cattle trail of the west was the ___.

Answer 15

Chisholm Trail

Question 16

The most famous of all the cow towns of Kansas was ___.

Answer 16

Abilene Kansas

Question 17

Barbed Wire was used by ____ to keep cattle out of their crops.

Answer 17

wheat farmers

Question 18

Ranchers relied on ____ to feed their cattle.

Answer 18

the open range

Question 19

____ were conflicts between farmers and ranchers on the Great Plains in the 1870s.

Answer 19

Range Wars

Question 20

The tools of the Great Plains dry farmers were :

Answer 20

steel plows
reapers
threshers

Question 21

the problems of the Great Plains farmers were

Answer 21

intense summer heat
intense winter cold
prairie fires
insects devastating crops

Question 22

the Great Plains became know as the ____ Belt

Answer 22

Wheat Belt

Question 23

large commercial farms on the Great Plains were called ___

Answer 23

Bonanza Farms

Question 24

the hunting ground and holy sites for many Indian tribes on the Great Plains was the ____ mountains.

Answer 24

Bighorn Mountains

Question 25

The _____ massacre in southeast Colorado killed Black Kettle in 1864

Answer 25

Sand Creek Massacre

Question 26

I n 1867, the Sioux and other Plains Indians met with the Peace Commission at ____ to reach a settlement that established certain reservations.

Answer 26

Fort Laramie

Question 27

Colonal _____ was surprised, cut off, surrounded, and completely annihilated in 1876 at the Little Bighorn River in Montana

Answer 27

George Armstrong Custer

Question 28

the Nez Perce leader _____ was defeated by US troops and sent to a reservation in Oklahoma in 1877 but not before being allowed to address Congress

Answer 28

Chief Joseph

Question 29

the massacre at ______ brought an end to Indian uprisings in 1890.

Answer 29

Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota

Question 30

The ______ included an extended family network and a nomadic lifestyle.

Answer 30

Great Plains Indian culture

Question 31

Many Indians were forced to remove from their homelands and be placed on _____.

Answer 31

Reservations

Question 32

Rather than hunting ____, many Great Plains Indians were forced to accept food annuities yearly from the Government.

Answer 32

buffalo

Question 33

The last hope for Great Plains Indian culture was the ____ by Sitting Bull.

Answer 33

Ghost Dance

Question 34

The ____ Act would forcibly assimilate Native American Indians into white culture by limiting their movement and forcing land ownership rules.

Answer 34

Dawes Act