Chapter 5 (The Americans) 2014 Flashcards
Which of the following marked the end of the war between the Federal government and the Plains Indians?
a. the Treaty of Fort Laramie
b. the death of Sitting Bull
c. The Sand Creek Massacre
d. the massacre at Wounded Knee
d. the massacre at Wounded Knee
Why did the policy of treating the Great Plains as a huge reservation change?
a, White settlers began wanting the land on the Plains.
b. Native Americans refused to remain on the Plains.
c. Native American populations decreased and needed less land.
d. The Plains failed to meet the needs of Native American peoples.
a. White settlers began wanting the land on the Plains.
Which of the following events occurred first?
a. The Treaty of Fort Laramie
b. the death of Sitting Bull
c. the Sand Creek Massacre
d. the massacre at Wounded Knee
c. the Sand Creek Massacre
Which was not central to the life and culture of the Plains Indians in the 1800’s?
a. the horse
b. the buffalo
c. the extended family
d. land ownership
d. land ownership
Who were the exodusters?
a. European immigrants who settled in the great plains.
b. Plains Indians forced onto reservations in the 1800’s.
c. former slaves from the south who settled on the great plains.
d. cowboys who worked long drives in the summer and odd jobs in the winter.
c. former slaves from the south who settled on the great plains.
Why did little of the free land offered by the Homestead Act end up being claimed by settlers?
a. The land was too difficult to farm.
b. Few settlers wanted to move West at the time.
c. Most of it was taken by people seeking profits.
d. The government put too many restrictions on its use.
c. Most of it was taken by people seeking profits,
Which of the following was MOST responsible for bringing an end to the era of the wide-open western frontier?
a. the railroad
b. barbed wire
c. sheep ranching
d. bonanza farming
a. the railroad
Why did Plains farmers in the late 1800’s tend to support bimetallism?
a. It would put more money in circulation
b. It would make the nation’s money supply safer.
c. It would lower the prices of seed and farm machinery.
d. It would allow them to profit from the mineral rights on their land.
a. It would put more money in circulation
Which of the following did NOT intensify the debts that Plains farmers had during the late 1800’s?
a. inflation
b. falling prices
c. the tight money supply
d. a shrinking supply of farm land
d. a shrinking supply of farm land
Which of the following marked the collapse of Populism?
a. the Panic of 1893
b. the founding of the Grange
c. the “Cross of Gold” speech
d. the election of William Mckinley
d. the election of William McKinley
Law that allowed white settlers to take much of the land set aside for Native Americans
Dawes Act
Plan that sought to abolish Native Americans’ traditional cultures
assimilation
Allowed the cattle business to flourish by providing a route to a shipping yard in Abilene, Kansas
Chisholm Trail
Slaughter of 300 unarmed Native Americans that marked the end of the indian wars in 1890
Battle of wounded knee
Offered 160 acres of land free to any head of household
Homestead act
