Effects of Westward Expansion

Question 1

Population growth of USA?

Answer 1

1869 - 1899
38 million - 92 million

Question 2

What percentage of homesteaders ‘proved up’ in total?

Answer 2

40%

Question 3

How many homesteads were repossessed in Kansas due to drought?

Answer 3

1889 - 93:
11,000 homesteads repossessed

Question 4

Between what years did farm production double?

Answer 4

1869 - 1899

Question 5

When was the US a world leading economy?

Answer 5

by 1900

Question 6

When was Yellowstone National Park founded?

Answer 6

1872

Made to protect forests

Question 7

What had the American settlers destroyed?

Answer 7

• Native American way of life
• Buffalo
• Trees

Question 8

Western dime novels:

Answer 8

Style emerged 1859
Characters:
- Calamity Jane
- Buffalo Bill

Romanticised the Cowboys and the ‘Indians’.

Question 9

Show that began in 1883?

Answer 9

Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West show:
- Re-enactment of Native American attacks on Stagecoaches and US Cavalry.

Question 10

Two american west murderers who became heros?

Answer 10

Billy the Kid
Jesse James