Dates Module 11 Lesson 3& 4

Question 1

As settlers began crossing the Great Plains in the ______, they pressured the federal government for more access to western lands.

Answer 1

mid-1800s

Question 2

Most southern Plains Indians agreed to go to reservations under the ______ Treaty of Medicine Lodge, but the Comanche continued to fight until _____.

Answer 2

1867
1875

Question 3

Most Native Americans had stopped fighting by the _____, except the Apache, led by
Geronimo, who fought until _____.

Answer 3

1880s
1886

Question 4

In ______ Crazy Horse and his Sioux warriors killed _____ soldiers.

Answer 4

1866
81

Question 5

In the Northern Plains there were battles with the Sioux throughout the ____.

Answer 5

1800s

Question 6

In ______ George Armstrong Custer’s troops were defeated by Sioux forces led by Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull at the Battle of Little Bighorn, the Sioux’s last major victory.

Answer 6

1876

Question 7

U.S. troops killed about ____ Sioux in the Massacre at Wounded Knee in _____.

Answer 7

150
1890

Question 8

Navajo were forced on a _____ march, known as the Long Walk, to a reservation and
countless died.

Answer 8

300-mile

Question 9

In _____ gold was discovered in the Black Hills of the Dakotas.

Answer 9

1874

Question 10

Sarah Winnemucca, a Paiute, lectured on problems of the reservation system and called for reform in the _____.

Answer 10

1870s

Question 11

Dawes General Allotment Act of _____

Answer 11

1887

Question 12

Dawes General Allotment Act of 1887 ended up taking about _____ of Native American land.

Answer 12

two-thirds

Question 13

By the ______ many Native Americans lived on reservations where land was not useful for farming or buffalo hunting .

Answer 13

1870s

Question 14

Two important land-grant acts helped open the West to settlers in ____.

Answer 14

1862

Question 15

______ of southern African Americans, known as Exodusters, moved to Kansas and other areas in the West.

Answer 15

Thousands

Question 16

The United States was growing during the period _______-______.

Answer 16

1860
1900

Question 17

Farmers could harvest a bushel of wheat 20 times faster in ____ than in ____.

Answer 17

1900
1830

Question 18

In ______ that the government could regulate railroads.

Answer 18

1877

Question 19

In______ that government could regulate only companies doing business across state lines.

Answer 19

1886

Question 20

Congress passed the Interstate Commerce Act in ____ to provide national regulations for trade but could not enforce them.

Answer 20

1887

Question 21

The U.S. had been on the gold standard since ____ as a result, the money supply grew more slowly than the population, leading to deflation.

Answer 21

1873

Question 22

It supported William Jennings Bryan in the election of _____, but his defeat marked the end of the Farmers’ Alliances and the Populist Party.

Answer 22

1896

Question 23

By the ______ the western frontier had come to an end.

Answer 23

1890s

Question 24

Only small portions of the Great Plains remained unsettled by ____.

Answer 24

1870

Question 25

U.S. officials allowed homesteaders to settle the Indian territory in what is now Oklahoma in _____.

Answer 25

1889

Question 26

Settlers claimed more than ______ acres of former Indian land in the Oklahoma land rush.

Answer 26

11 million

Question 27

The frontier had ceased to exist in the United States by the early _____.

Answer 27

1890s