Chapter 15

Question 0

Farmers alliance

Answer 0

Connected farmers in south and west that had problems with
Railroad expenses
Regulate bank interest
Trying to convince the government to help

Question 1

How did the souths economy change after the civil war? What factors limited its growth?

Answer 1

Continued to lag
First had to repair from war damages
Industry: natural resources, labor and capital investment (only had NR)
Needed well trained and productive workers as well as consumers who spent money
Lacked technical and engineering schools that could have trained workers
Attempt to become industrialized but doesn’t work

Question 2

What happened to rights of southern blacks? Did Supreme Court help?

Answer 2

Had rights on paper but when Supreme Court left it up to states they had no rights

Question 3

Reservations

Answer 3

Americans wanted a railroad that crossed the continent, government set aside specific areas for the Indians use, could no longer roam the plains, faced with poverty

Question 4

Sand creek massacre

Answer 4

Spawned another round of warfare as plains Indians joined forces to repel white settlement

Question 5

Little big horn

Answer 5

Cluster rushed ahead of the U.S. Cavalry and arrived a day ahead, 250 of his men ran into 2,000 Indians, crazy horse led the charge and killed cluster and all of his men

Question 6

Wounded knee

Answer 6

In an effort to stop religious revival at Ghost Dance the government ordered an arrest, hostilities broke out and the cavalry outgunned the Indians, more than 100 people died

Question 7

Assimilated

Answer 7

Into natural life, adopting the culture and civilization of whites, Policy hoped that as buffalo went extinct this would happen

Question 8

Helen Hunt Jackson

Answer 8

Publicized NA problems
Criticized the U.S. governments history of shattered treaties
Wrote novel Ramona-helped build sympathy for NA

Question 9

Dawes General Allotment Act

Answer 9

Replaced reservation system with allotment

Family granted 160-acres, size based on how much needed to support the family

Question 10

Nez Perce

Answer 10

Led by “Chief Joseph”

100 days = 1700 miles

Question 11

Transcontinental railroad

Answer 11

Union Pacific
Central Pacific
Government payed the companies in land
Omahaw and California met in promontory, Utah

Question 12

Open range cattle forming

Answer 12

Not fenced in
Cattle from any range grazed freely
Short lived but highly profitable

Question 13

Exodusters

Answer 13

Planted crops and founded several enduring all back towns
Lived in sod homes
Left the south
Promise land is in Kansas and Oklahoma

Question 14

Homestead act

Answer 14

Live for five years, dig a well and build a road
160 acres of farm plot
Offered by gov