Slides Module 11 Lesson 3& 4

Question 1

As settlers began crossing the ______ in the mid-1800s, they pressured the federal
government for more access to _______ lands.

Answer 1

Great Plains
western

Question 2

Plains Indians, including the Sioux, Pawnee, and Cheyenne, lived by hunting ______.

Answer 2

buffalo

Question 3

________ were used for food, shelter, clothing, and utensils.

Answer 3

Buffalo

Question 4

Conflict grew with the _____ Indians as miners and settlers ______ in number.

Answer 4

Plains
increased

Question 5

The U.S. government negotiated new treaties after ______ was discovered in ________, sending Native Americans to live on ______ , areas of federal land set aside for them.

Answer 5

gold
Colorado
reservations

Question 6

The movement of _______ and _______ across the Great Plains and through Native American hunting grounds led to conflict with the _______ , led by _______.

Answer 6

pioneers
miners
Sioux
Crazy Horse

Question 7

Most _________ Indians agreed to go to reservations under the 1867 __________, but the _____ tribe continued to fight until 1875.

Answer 7

southern Plains
Treaty of Medicine Lodge
Comanche

Question 8

When Native Americans ______ confinement on reservations U.S. troops _____ them to
go. Included _________ called buffalo soldiers.

Answer 8

resisted
forced
African American cavalry

Question 9

Most Native Americans had stopped fighting by the 1880s, except the ______, led by
_______, who fought until 1886.

Answer 9

Apache
Geronimo

Question 10

In 1866 ________ and his ______ warriors killed 81 soldiers.

Answer 10

Crazy Horse
Sioux

Question 11

In the ______ there were battles with the _____ throughout the 1800s.

Answer 11

Northern Plains
Sioux

Question 12

____ troops killed about 150 Sioux in the _________ in 1890.

Answer 12

U.S.
Massacre at Wounded Knee

Question 13

_____ refused to settle on reservations.

Answer 13

Navajo

Question 14

U.S. troops raided Navajo _____, _____, and ____.

Answer 14

fields
homes
livestock

Question 15

Out of _____ and _____, the Navajo ______.

Answer 15

food
shelter
surrendered

Question 16

______ were forced on a 300-mile march, known as the ______, to a reservation and
_______.

Answer 16

Navajo
Long Walk
countless died

Question 17

Initially, the ________ promised to let the ______ tribe keep their ______ land. Later, the government ______ land.

Answer 17

United States
Nez Percé
Oregon
demanded

Question 18

A group of Nez Percé led by _______ ________.

Answer 18

Chief Joseph
resisted

Question 19

_____ troops forced the Nez Percé to a
_________ in what is now _________.

Answer 19

U.S.
reservation
Oklahoma

Question 20

In 1874 gold was discovered in the ______ of the _______.

Answer 20

Black Hills
Dakotas

Question 21

In 1877 _____ and a group of _______ fled across the border to Canada but were captured by ___ troops and sent to a reservation.

Answer 21

Chief Joseph
Nez Perce
U.S.

Question 22

______ movement predicted the arrival of paradise for _________.

Answer 22

Ghost Dance
Native Americans

Question 23

_________, a _____, lectured on _____ of the reservation system and called for reform in the 1870s.

Answer 23

Sarah Winnemucca
Paiute
problems

Question 24

Dawes General Allotment Act of 1887 based on the belief that Native Americans should
________ into ________ society; made land ownership among Native Americans ______.

Answer 24

assimilate
American
private

Question 25

By the 1870s many Native Americans lived on _________ where land was not useful for _____or _____ hunting .

Answer 25

reservations
farming
buffalo

Question 26

Two important ______ acts helped open the ______ to ______ in 1862.

Answer 26

land-grant
West
settlers

Question 27

Thousands of southern _______, known as _______, moved to _______ and other areas in the West.

Answer 27

African Americans
Exodusters
Kansas

Question 28

Breaking up tough ____ on the Plains earned ______ the nickname ______.

Answer 28

turf
farmers
sodbusters

Question 29

New ______ helped Plains farmers meet some of the challenges of ____ life.

Answer 29

inventions
frontier

Question 30

Farmers began ______, growing hardy crops such as ________.

Answer 30

dry farming
red wheat

Question 31

Crops were shipped ____ by ____ and then ____; the Great Plains became known as the breadbasket of the world.

Answer 31

east
train
overseas

Question 32

_______ were an important force in settling the frontier.

Answer 32

Women

Question 33

_________, a founder of ____, _______, supported many social causes.

Answer 33

Annie Bidwell
Chico
California

Question 34

Harsh life on remote farms led farmers to form ______ , creating ______ and ______.

Answer 34

communities
churches
schools

Question 35

________ helped with many chores on the
farm.

Answer 35

Children

Question 36

The United States was ______ during the period 1860-1900.

Answer 36

growing

Question 37

Farmers formed ________ to protect their ______.

Answer 37

associations
interests

Question 38

The _______ of the ________ was a social and educational organization for farmers.

Answer 38

National Grange
Patrons of
husbandry

Question 39

The National Grange called for ______ to regulate _______.

Answer 39

laws
railroad rates

Question 40

______ passed the _______ in 1887 to provide national regulations for trade, but could not enforce them.

Answer 40

Congress
Interstate Commerce Act

Question 41

The U.S. had been on the ___ standard
since 1873 as a result, the ____ supply
grew more slowly than the _____,
leading to ______.

Answer 41

gold
money
population
deflation

Question 42

Many ______ supported the unlimited
coining of _____ and the backing of _____
currency with silver.

Answer 42

farmers
silver
paper

Question 43

The Farmers’ Alliances formed the________ to have power and a candidate that would represent them.

Answer 43

Populist Party

Question 44

It supported William Jennings Bryan in
the election of 1896, but his defeat marked the ___of the ______ and the ______.

Answer 44

end
Farmers’ Alliances
Populist Party

Question 45

By the 1890s the _______ had come to an end.

Answer 45

western frontier

Question 46

Only _____ portions of the ______ remained unsettled by 1870.

Answer 46

small
Great Plains

Question 47

U.S. officials allowed ______ to settle the _______ in what is now ________
in 1889.

Answer 47

homesteaders
Indian territory
Oklahoma

Question 48

_____ claimed more than 11 million acres of former ______in the _____ land rush.

Answer 48

Settlers
Indian land
Oklahoma

Question 49

The _____ had ceased to exist in the ________ by the early 1890s.

Answer 49

frontier
United States