Chapter 17

Question 1

Political leader of the Sioux during the Sioux War

Answer 1

Sitting Bull

Question 2

Invention enabled farmers to fence their land on the treeless plains

Answer 2

Barbed wire

Question 3

Military leader of the Sioux during the Sioux War

Answer 3

Crazy Horse

Question 4

The last major effort by the Indians to retain their lands

Answer 4

Sioux War

Question 5

Reckless colonel who lost his life at the Battle of Little Bighorn

Answer 5

George Armstrong Custer

Question 6

Tracts of land set aside for Indians

Answer 6

Reservation

Question 7

“Indian Napolean” chief of the Nez Perce Indians

Answer 7

Chief Joseph

Question 8

Chinese rebellion against foreigners was stopped by an international military force that included U.S. Troops

Answer 8

Boxer rebellion

Question 9

Puppet emperor in Mexico

Answer 9

Maximilian 1

Question 10

The extension of power by one people or country over another for the benefit of the controlling country

Answer 10

Imperialism

Question 11

American commodore who negotiated a treaty with the Japanese

Answer 11

Matthew Perry

Question 12

Mission boards that are not supported by guaranteed funds from a denomination

Answer 12

Faith Missions

Question 13

Spanish ambassador who insulted President McKinley in a private letter

Answer 13

Enrique Dupuy de lome

Question 14

Sensationalized news reporting that became popular in the United States late in the nineteenth century

Answer 14

Yellow journalism

Question 15

American commodore who defeated the Spanish navy in the Philippines

Answer 15

George Dewey

Question 16

War the United States fought over the independence of Cuba

Answer 16

Spanish American War

Question 17

Philippine revolutionary

Answer 17

Emilio Aguinaldo

Question 18

Provided a 160- acre land grant in the West free to anyone who improved it

Answer 18

Homestead Act

Question 19

The mine produced $400 million worth of ore by 1900, the ore was part silver part gold & a town sprang up near the mind

Answer 19

Comstock Lode

Question 20

A bloody attack on an Indian band that had already surrendered

Answer 20

Wounded Knee Massacre

Question 21

The subject of this book was the plight of the Indians

Answer 21

A century of dishonor

Question 22

Land annexed to protect the United States against threats from the Pacific

Answer 22

Hawaii

Question 23

Parceled out Indian tribal lands

Answer 23

Daws Act

Question 24

Territory purchased from Russia in 1867

Answer 24

Alaska

Question 25

Settlement of three longstanding disagreements between Britain and the United States

Answer 25

Treaty of Washington

Question 26

Agreement that opened Japan to trade with the West

Answer 26

Treaty of Kanagawa

Question 27

Movement intended to achieve greater unity among nations in the Western Hemisphere

Answer 27

Pan Americanism

Question 28

Free trade in China

Answer 28

Open door policy

Question 29

Antiforeign movement in China

Answer 29

Boxer Rebellion

Question 30

American victory over the Spanish fleet in the Pacific

Answer 30

Battle of Manila Bay

Question 31

Movement meant to recruit student missionaries

Answer 31

Student volunteer movement

Question 32

Volunteer unit of men during the Spanish American War

Answer 32

Rough rider

Question 33

Battle that resulted with American forces capturing Puerto Rico

Answer 33

Battle of Santiago bay

Question 34

Unfenced public lands

Answer 34

Open range

Question 35

Tribes such as the Cheyenne, the Comanche, and the Sioux

Answer 35

Plains Indians

Question 36

The site of Custers last stand

Answer 36

Battle of little big horn

Question 37

The first transcontinental railroad was built primarily by immigrants from what two countries?

Answer 37

China and Ireland

Question 38

What is the significance of Promontory Point, Utah

Answer 38

It was the junction of the transcontinental railroad

Question 39

Which territory was settled by “land rushes”?

Answer 39

Oklahoma

Question 40

What was the American governments official goal during the Indian Wars

Answer 40

The government intended to move the Indians to reservations

Question 41

What was the goals of American foreign policy during the last half of the 1800s

Answer 41

Defending the Western Hemisphere against European intervention, extending United States territory, creating new trading opportunities

Question 42

Explain how the homesteaders adapted to the lack of rain and lack of trees on the Great Plains

Answer 42

To deal with the lack of trees, homesteaders built their homes and other farm buildings out of the prairie sod and used first hedges and later barbed wire for fencing. To deal with the lack of rain, farmers irrigated their fields from the regions rivers or pumped water from the water table below the ground, using windmills to drive the pumps. They also used the widespread practice of “dry farming”, the cultivation of crops by careful conservation of water

Question 43

Explain why the Indian victory at Little Bighorn actually worked to the advantage of the u.s. Army

Answer 43

The victory by the Sioux caused many of the Indians to think that the fighting was over, so they left the Sioux fighting force. The American forces defeat on the hand spurred the American government to send more men and supplies to defeat the Indians