Moving West

Question 1

Long Drive

Answer 1

Cowboys escorted herds to railroads

Question 2

Battle of Little Longhorn

Answer 2

Custer’s calvary was wiped out

Question 3

Morrill Land-Grant Act

Answer 3

Distributed millions of acres of western lands to state governments

Question 4

Massacre at Wounded Knee

Answer 4

American soldiers killed more than 200 unarmed Sioux

Question 5

Homestead Act

Answer 5

Applicants had to farm the land for five years in a row

Question 6

Bonanza Farm

Answer 6

Very large farms established in the western United States

Question 7

Farm Mechanization

Answer 7

Resulted in an increase in farm production

Question 8

Frederick Jackson Turner’s Thesis

Answer 8

Helped create the strong, individualistic American spirit

Question 9

What did the Morrill Land-Grant Act and the Homestead Act have in common?

Answer 9

They provided ways for settlers to acquire western lands

Question 10

Describe the life of a homesteader

Answer 10

Often struggled even for the necessities

Question 11

Why did agreements between the Native Americans and the federal government fall apart?

Answer 11

Native Americans and settlers had differing concepts of land ownership

Question 12

What do the experiences of Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce illustrate?

Answer 12

Violent conflicts arose among settlers, the federal gov. and Native Americans

Question 13

How did the federal government seek to change the Native Americans?

Answer 13

Take Native American lands

Question 14

Who owned much of the western land near prime transportation routes?

Answer 14

Railroads

Question 15

Why go west?

Answer 15

Cattle industry work, and the Homestead Act

Question 16

Why did an “Indian rights” movement develop?

Answer 16

Gov. treatments of Native Americans

Question 17

Why did Congress open the Indian Territory?

Answer 17

Because they were responding to pressure from squatters and other would-be settlers

Question 18

How did technology help farmers on the Great Plains?

Question 19

Progressive Income Tax (graduated Income Tax)

Answer 19

Populists supported,

Question 20

Why did settlers in the Great Plains depend on help from each other?

Answer 20

It allowed trade to take place

Question 21

What created the mining boom that started with the California Gold Rush?

Answer 21

The lure of quick WEALTH

Question 22

In the 1880’s, American Presidents most often protected whose interests?

Answer 22

business and industry

Question 23

Once the loose gold was gone, who moved into the mining towns?

Answer 23

Large Mining Corporations