Chapter 18

Question 1

The New South and The New West (dates)

Answer 1

1865-1900

Question 2

an American tobacco and electric power industrialist best known for the introduction of modern cigarette manufacture and marketing

Answer 2

James Duke

Question 3

“The Pittsburgh of the South”

Answer 3

Birmingham, AL - Birmingham’s iron and steel industries developed thanks to plentiful deposits of coal, iron ore and limestone found around the area. In addition, the city was also known within the railroading industry as a manufacturing center for rails and railroad cars.

Question 4

In debt to the landowner for everything, the ______ rarely worked up from poverty. The second labor system, ______, also required farmers to work someone else’s land and pay rent with a portion of the crop yield

Answer 4

Sharecroppers/Share tenants

Question 5

established by Congress as the first peacetime all-black regiments in the regular U.S. Army

Answer 5

Buffalo Soldiers

Question 6

a lode of silver ore located under the eastern slope of Mount Davidson, a peak in the Virginia Range in Nevada. It was the first major discovery of silver ore in the United States, and named after American miner Henry ______.

Answer 6

Comstock Lode

Question 7

an American writer known for the Little House on the Prairie series of children’s books, published between 1932 and 1943, which were based on her childhood in a settler and pioneer family.

Answer 7

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Question 8

an American frontierswoman and professional scout known for being an acquaintance of Wild Bill Hickok and fighting against Indians

Answer 8

Mary Jane Canary “Calamity Jane”

Question 9

an American sharpshooter and exhibition shooter. Her “amazing talent” first came to light at 15-years-old when she won a shooting match against traveling-show marksman Frank E. Butler, whom she later married.

Answer 9

Annie Oakley “Little Sure Shot”

Question 10

was a notorious American outlaw. Associated with the James–Younger Gang and other outlaws. She was convicted of horse theft in 1883

Answer 10

Belle Starr

Question 11

a massacre in the American Indian Wars that occurred on November 29, 1864, when a 675-man force of Colorado U.S. Volunteer Cavalry[3] under the command of U.S. Army Colonel John Chivington attacked and destroyed a village of Cheyenne and Arapaho in southeastern Colorado Territory,[4] killing and mutilating an estimated 70–500 Native Americans

Answer 11

The Sand Creek Massacre

Question 12

also commonly referred to as Custer’s Last Stand, was an armed engagement between combined forces of the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes and the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army. The battle, which resulted in the defeat of US forces, was the most significant action of the Great Sioux War of 1876.

Answer 12

Battle of Little Bighorn, 1876

Question 13

Whose quote?

“I am tired of fighting. Our chiefs are killed…the old men are all dead…I want to have time to look for my children, and see how many of them I can find…Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever.”

Answer 13

Chief Joseph

Question 14

leader of the Chihuicahui local group of the Chokonen and principal chief of the Chokonen band of the Chiricahua Apache.

Answer 14

Cochise

Question 15

authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians.

Answer 15

The Dawes Act of 1887

Question 16

an American Old West gambler, deputy sheriff in Pima County, and deputy town marshal in Tombstone, Arizona Territory.

Answer 16

Wyatt Earp

Question 17

an American gambler, gunfighter, and dentist, and a good friend of Wyatt Earp. He is best known for his role as a temporary deputy marshal in the events leading up to and following the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.

Answer 17

Doc Holiday

Question 18

a 30-second shootout between lawmen and members of a loosely organized group of outlaws called the Cowboys that took place at about 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 26, 1881, in Tombstone, Arizona Territory.

Answer 18

Gunfight at the O.K. Coral

Question 19

an eccentric U.S. saloon-keeper and Justice of the Peace in Val Verde County, Texas, who called himself “The Law West of the Pecos”

Answer 19

Judge Roy Bean

Question 20

a British-American socialite, actress and producer.

Answer 20

“Jersey” Lillie Langtry

Question 21

a folk hero of the American Old West known for his work across the frontier as a drover, wagon master, soldier, spy, scout, lawman, gunfighter, gambler, showman, and actor.

Answer 21

Wild Bill Hickok

Question 22

poker hand said to have been held by Old West folk hero, lawman, and gunfighter Wild Bill Hickok when he was murdered.

Answer 22

“Dead Man’s Hand”

Question 23

American scout, bison hunter, and showman. Started performing in shows that displayed cowboy themes and episodes from the frontier and Indian Wars

Answer 23

Buffalo Bill

Question 24

In 1890, the Census Bureau announced the ________, meaning there was no longer a discernible frontier line in the west, nor any large tracts of land yet unbroken by settlement. This news had a terrific psychological impact on many Americans.

Answer 24

End of the Frontier

Question 25

an American historian in the early 20th century, based at the University of Wisconsin until 1910, and then at Harvard. He was primarily known for his “Frontier Thesis.”

Answer 25

Frederick Jackson Turner