Frontiers

Question 1

The Great Plains were located

Answer 1

from Mississippi to Colorado

Question 2

The Rocky Mountains located

Answer 2

around Utah, Montana, etc

Question 3

The Great Plains

Answer 3

farming

Question 4

The Rocky Mountains

Answer 4

mining

Question 5

Basins

Answer 5

good land for both farming and mining

Question 6

Native Americans in the Western Frontier had issues with

Answer 6

Buffalo Hunters, railroads and the US government

Question 7

Western Tensions

Answer 7

Cowherders vs Sheepherders
Ranchers vs Farmer
Minorities vs Nativist
Environmentalist vs Big Businesses

Question 8

where the transcontinental railroad met

Answer 8

Promontory Point, Utah

Question 9

The Big Four Railroad Magnets

Answer 9

Crucker
Hopkins
Huntington
Sanford

Question 10

Cattle Frontier was based off of

Answer 10

transporting cows to railroads to be brought to big cities to be slaughtered

Question 11

Chicago

Answer 11

big city in slaughtering

Question 12

Cowherders vs Sheepherders

Answer 12

sheep would use the same trials as the cattle and eat the grass on the trials, leaving cows with no food

Question 13

Cowherders vs Farmers

Answer 13

cows stepping on farms, farmers make barbed wire fences, cowherders cut that shit so cows would get stuck and stabbed

Question 14

List the frontiers

Answer 14

Cattle
Mining
Agricultural

Question 15

Mining Frontier

Answer 15

formed wherever something precious was found

Question 16

Miners v Native Americans

Answer 16

started from gold being found and American settlements starting on Indian land

Question 17

cowtowns

Answer 17

where cow trails and railroads met

Question 18

cow boys

Answer 18

young, constantly living out the house, moved the cows to the railroads, etc

Question 19

boom towns

Answer 19

lawless and vigilante justice

in Anaconda Copper Mining

Question 20

Anaconda Copper Mining

Answer 20

major copper mine

Question 21

The people of the Agricultural Frontier

Answer 21

used what they had to survive

Question 22

thresher

Answer 22

easier to collect seeds

Question 23

water pumps

Answer 23

Prairie Fun

Question 24

Rangers

Answer 24

union of farmers that helped each other

• bought in bulk
• negotiated with railroads

Question 25

Exodusters

Answer 25

African Americans moving west forming farms

Question 26

Buffalo Soldiers

Answer 26

black soldiers

Question 27

Homestead Act

Answer 27

anyone 21 or older or head of the family can receive land for free if they settle it for 5 years and make improvements or after 6 months the land can be purchased.

Question 28

“homesteaders”

Answer 28

those who took advantage of the homestead act’s first part (5 years and it’s yours!)

Question 29

Timber Culture Act

Answer 29

gave “homesteaders” additional land IF THEY IRRIGATED THE LAND

Question 30

Oriental Exclusion Act & Chinese Exclusion Act

Answer 30

stopped Asain immigration to the US

Question 31

Treat of Lorine and Treaty of Medicine Lodge Hill

Answer 31

placed Native Americans in reservations

Question 32

“I will fight no more forever”

Answer 32

Chief Joseph

Question 33

The general who fought in Battle of Little Big Horn

Answer 33

G. Custer

Question 34

Leaders of the Dakota Sous

Answer 34

Sitting bull and crazy horse

Question 35

The Century of Dishonor

Answer 35

Helen Hunt Jackson

Question 36

Suzette Fiescha

Answer 36

Omaha Indian, who lectured about what was happening to Indians

Question 37

Issues with the Dawes Severity Act

Answer 37

Different nations in one reservation

Indians were hunters not farmers

The soil they were taught on was rocky

The Indians did not want to assimilate

Question 38

Romanticized the west

Answer 38

Buffalo Bill Cody

Question 39

The Sierra Club

Answer 39

Group of environmentalist that advocated for national parks