chapter 5

Question 1

how did warriors show their bravery

Answer 1

counting coop and or killing enemies

Question 2

main source of food clothing and shelter for native Americans

Answer 2

buffalo

Question 3

massacre at sand creek

Answer 3

first clashes between natives and whites
colonel John chivington
ordered an attack killing over 150 mostly women and children
led to an attack on Bozeman trail

Question 4

three things the government does to bring an end to native culture

Answer 4

assimilation
killing the buffalo
Dawes act

Question 5

counting coup

Answer 5

touching a live enemy with a coup stick and escaping unharmed

Question 6

assimilation

Answer 6

Native Americans would give up their beliefs and way of life to become part of white culture

Question 7

Longhorns

Answer 7

perfectly suited for life on the plains in Texas. it was left behind by Spanish. short tempered

Question 8

3 words that the cowboy adopts from the Spanish

6

Answer 8

rodeo
vaquero
bronco
chaps
mustang
corral

Question 9

vaquero

Answer 9

taught Americans how to rope ride and handle longhorn

Question 10

rapidly growing cities and industrialization lead to the increased demand for what product

Answer 10

beef

Question 11

Joseph McCoy

Answer 11

started a hotel and stockyards
enticed Cowboys to drive cattle
to the railhead
shipping to the markets in the east

Question 12

ending of the open range reasons

4

Answer 12

barbed wire
overgrazing
homestead act
railway act

Question 13

two hardships that settlers faced on the plains

7

Answer 13

drought 
fires
floods
blizzards 
plagues
Indian attacks
lawlessness

Question 14

home on the plains were called

Answer 14

dugouts and soddys

Question 15

dugouts and soddies characteristics

4

Answer 15

poorly lit
poorly venerated
rat snakes and insects
well insulated

Question 16

two inventions that led to increased production on the plains

(4)

Answer 16

steel plow
reapers
seed drill
barbed wire

Question 17

Morrill land grant act

Answer 17

land grant colleges (agriculture and engineering)
30,000 acres
within 5 years

Question 18

acts were all intended to encourage

Wild West

Answer 18

people to move and settle in plains

Question 19

Chinese

railroads

Answer 19

used to build the railroads in WEST

Question 20

exodusters

Answer 20

African Americans who moved from south to plains.

Question 21

most of the land from the homestead act wound up in the hands of. why?

Answer 21

investors and businessmen

seeking profits and wanted more land

Question 22

two reasons farmers were losing money

4

Answer 22

overproduction
too many loans
deflation
excessive railroad charges

Question 23

The grange / patrons of husbandry

who
3 characteristics

Answer 23

OLIVER KELLY
organization for farmers
social outlet for source of education
fought for railroad regulation

Question 24

Populist Party

Answer 24

common person have a greater voice in the government

Question 25

two economic reforms proposed by populists

3

Answer 25

increase money supply
graduated income tax
federal loans for farmers (cheap interest rates)

Question 26

two political reforms proposed by the populists

5

Answer 26

election of senators by popular vote
single terms for president 
secret ballot
8 hour work day
restrictions on immigration

Question 27

William Jennings Bryan

election

Answer 27

silverities
democrat 
farmers / laborers 
south and west
not so rich

CROSS OF GOLD

Question 28

McKinley

election

Answer 28

gold bugs
republican
bankers and businessmen 
east and north
rich

Question 29

bimetalism

Answer 29

gov would give citizens gold or silver in exchange for paper currency (worth more)

Question 30

Dawes Act

Answer 30

Indians to own land and become farmers
must be 18+ or declare to be citizen
1/8 section, 80 acres
25 years

Question 31

railway act

Answer 31

to create railways in west and transcontinental railroad
10 acres per mile of track laid
well land and pay for building railroad

Question 32

homestead act

Answer 32

move families west to farm
head of family, 21+, can’t bear arms
160 acres
5 years before its yours

Question 33

Native American gender roles

Answer 33

M hunter and warrior and leaders

F provide for kids, cooked, farmed, clothing and household

Question 34

white gender roles in the Great Plains

Answer 34

M farmers main source of income, protectors and warriors

F cooked food took care of kids and grew crops

Question 35

Native American land ownership was also known as

Answer 35

community land

Question 36

white land ownership

Great Plains

Answer 36

individuals owned specific pieces of land with deed

Question 37

Native American religion

Answer 37

polytheistic, many gods and spirits

Question 38

white religion

Answer 38

monotheistic and Christian

Question 39

White food source

Answer 39

cows

farmed

Question 40

Native American gov

Answer 40

council of elders

traditions not laws

Question 41

white gov

Great Plains

Answer 41

laws
structure
elected leaders

Question 42

grassland extending from the Mississippi to the Rockies

Answer 42

plains

Question 43

sitting bull

3

Answer 43

didn’t sign treaty of fort Laramie
defeated Custer at little bug horn
killed by Native American police upon surrendering at wounded knee

Question 44

George Custer

Answer 44

reported gold in black hills

led men to be slaughtered at little big horn

Question 45

battle of wounded knee

Answer 45

indian wars ended

300 unarmed women and children killed

Question 46

Chisholm trail

Answer 46

Cattle route from San Antonio to Abiline KS

Question 47

bonanza farms

Answer 47

25,000 to 50,000 acre one crop farm

Question 48

Irish

railroad

Answer 48

built railways in EAST

Question 49

treaty of fort Laramie

Answer 49

Sioux agree to live on a reservation along the Missouri River