Chapter 18 Westward Expansion

Question 1

What was the pony express?

Answer 1

A system for taking mail from Missouri to the west coast.

Question 2

What killed the pony express?

Answer 2

telegraph

Question 3

What event did the Indian Wars begin with?

Answer 3

the Sand Creek Massacre

Question 4

What event did the Indian wars end with?

Answer 4

the capture of Geronimo

Question 5

Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints originally settled where and moved to where?

Answer 5

Utah to California

Question 6

The Cattle Kingdom of the American West was dependent on what?

Answer 6

the presence of unfenced range that provided free feed and open trails

Question 7

Crucial to opening the Great Plains to large-scale agriculture was what?

Answer 7

new transportation and farming technologies

Question 8

How did American agriculture change in the trading aspect?

Answer 8

a shift from local trading to international trading

Question 9

Which US president symbolized the legendary American West?

Answer 9

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 10

The book A Century of Dishonor by Helen Hunt Jackson did what?

Answer 10

sharply criticized the US government for failing to honor its treaties with the Indian tribes

Question 11

The event that epitomized the fate of Native Americans occurred where?

Answer 11

Wounded Knee

Question 12

What did Frederick Jackson Turner argue?

Answer 12

the moving western frontier shaped American democracy and the American character from the colonial era until 1890

Question 13

Who was the leader of the Nez Perce who said “I will fight no more forever” when he surrendered?

Answer 13

Chief Joseph

Question 14

What treaty recognized the Black Hills as part of the Great Sioux Reservation Medicine Lodge Treaty?

Answer 14

Treaty of Fort Laramie

Question 15

What was the name of the lode of silver found along the Carson River in Nevada?

Answer 15

Comstock Lode

Question 16

What happened at the Sand Creek Massacre?

Answer 16

a 700-man force ofColorado Territorymilitia attacked and destroyed a peaceful village ofCheyenneandArapaho.

Question 17

What did the Ghost Dance predict?

Answer 17

a huge flood is going to come and kill all the white people and the land would be returned to the Natives

Question 18

What did the homestead act do?

Answer 18

gave an applicant an ownership of land at minimal cost consisting of 160 acres as long as they improved the land

Question 19

What were Hellorados?

Answer 19

ethically diverse towns in the west that were lawless

Question 20

Who was one of the first cowboys?

Answer 20

Joseph G. McCoy

Question 21

What is the name of Hispanic cowboys?

Answer 21

vaqueros

Question 22

Who won at the Battle of Little Big Horn?

Answer 22

the Sioux

Question 23

What was the name of the massacre in response to the Ghost Dance?

Answer 23

Wounded Knee

Question 24

During the late 1800s, farmers supported free and unlimited coinage of silver mainly because they believed that it would lead to?:

Answer 24

higher prices for farm products.

Question 25

According to the new view of the environment that was developing in the late 19c, nature existed to be what?:

Answer 25

tamed and conquered

Question 26

Open-range ranching came to an end due to what?:

Answer 26

fencing of the plains with barbed wire.

Question 27

After the Civil War, the West favored the issue of greenbacks because?:

Answer 27

inflation and cheap dollars would favor the farmers, who were in debt.

Question 28

The purpose of the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 was to?:

Answer 28

weaken tribes, allot land to individual Indians, and promote assimilation.

Question 29

Six states were created from the western territories in 1889 and 1890. These states were not admitted before 1889 because?:

Answer 29

Democrats in Congress were reluctant to create states out of territories that were heavily Republican.