Standard 1 - Westward Expansion

Question 1

The process of making a group of people , such as American Indians , more like Americans in thought and customs. (Carlisle Indian School , Dawes Act , sometimes assimilation just happens sometimes it’s forced)

Answer 1

Assimilation

Question 2

Belonged to the Hunkpapa band, one of seven Lakota Sioux groups that lived by hunting buffalo

Answer 2

Sitting Bull

Question 3

A geologic formation below earth’s surface that can hold a large ground water reservoir (Ogallala Aquifer aka High Plains Aquifer is under 8 states).

Answer 3

Aquifer

Question 4

Developed refrigerated cars for transporting food. (made shipping of meat and other farm products more profitable, after the invention of this, the cattle industry made big profit)

Answer 4

Gustavious Swift

Question 5

gives a person the right to vote no matter the sex

Answer 5

19th amendment

Question 6

A legal claim to a person’s property and income if debts aren’t paid

Answer 6

Liens

Question 7

American Inventor of the first commercially successful barbed wire(barbed wire helped farmers but hurt cattle ranchers)

Answer 7

Joseph Glidden

Question 12

a farming method of sowing seed deep in the soil and using dust above to keep in moisture

Answer 12

Dry Farming

Question 19

a farmer whose land was owned by a landlord who provided seed , shelter and a small allowance exchange for half of the harvest plus interest

Answer 19

Tenant Farmer

Question 20

Willful annihilation of a racial,political, of culture group (like what we did to native Americans)

Answer 20

Genocide

Question 21

African Americans who migrated from the South to the West after the civil war (Lead by Benjamin “Pap” Singleton)

Answer 21

Exodusters

Question 22

Land set aside by the federal government for the Native Americans.

Answer 22

Reservations

Question 23

A law that gave settlers 160 acres of public land in western territories on the condition that they built a home and farm within five years.

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Homestead Act

Question 24

(Government’s unlimited coining of silver for money, to try to create inflation) Farmers from the midwest were a big fan.

Answer 24

Free Silver Movement

Question 25

Nez Perces’s leader. Led a group of refugees (after being placed in Oklahoma on a reservation) on a trek of more than 1,300 miles to Canada ( I will fight no more forever)

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Chief Joseph

Question 26

Facilitated the creation of the first transcontinental Railroad, a huge railroad that connected East of the United States of America to the West (Gave land on either side of the tracks to railroad owners for getting the railroads built in record time)

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Pacific Railway Acts

Question 28

group of farmers who pooled their resources for the good of the member

Answer 28

coopertatives

Question 29

A ritual dance that provided hope, and would restore their native American culture. (was misinterpreted by government for act of aggression, led to Massacre at Wounded Knee)

Answer 29

Ghost Dance

Question 30

An agreement between the landowners and poor workers to share a portion of the crops in exchange for labor.(very similar to tenant farmer)

Answer 30

Sharecroppers

Question 31

Gave citizenship to former slaves and guaranteed equal protection under the law

Answer 31

14th amendment

Question 32

United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry (first time the government attempted to regulate any big business, but was not very successful)

Answer 32

Interstate Commerce Act

Question 33

A black businessman from Tennessee, helped organize a group of African Americans called the “Exodusters.”

Answer 33

Benjamin “Pap” Singleton

Question 34

Platform,the problems farmers had and what they thought was the solution

Answer 34

Populism

Question 35

wrote a book in 1881 called “A Century of Dishonor” to awaken Americans toward Native Americans (kind of led to the passage of the Dawes Act)

Answer 35

Helen Hunt Jackson

Question 36

A Nebraska politician who wanted unlimited coinage of silver (was the first candidate for the Populist party)

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William Jennings Bryan

Question 37

Abolish slavery

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13th Amendment

Question 39

Established the practice of “Separate but Equal”

Answer 39

Plessy vs. Ferguson

Question 41

A law that divided reservation land among Native American families to give individual family land ownership. (Allotment)

Answer 41

Dawes Severalty Act

Question 42

allows the federal government to collect an income tax from all americans

Answer 42

16th Amendment

Question 43

Prohibiting any poll tax in elections for federal officials

Answer 43

24th Amendment

Question 44

No person shall be elected to the office of the president more than twice.

Answer 44

22nd amendment

Question 47

A large contained body of water that can be tapped incase of drought

Answer 47

Reservoirs