The American West

Question 1

What conditions lured people to migrate to the west

Answer 1

Weather, crop failure crowding attraction to gold and adventure

Question 2

How can the mining attraction of the west be compared to a “get rich quick” scheme

Answer 2

They would find pieces of gold

Question 3

Explain why the mining industry was taken over by large corporations

Answer 3

Companies who could afford the mining equipment took over because the remaining minerals were still deep in the ground

Question 4

Describe why the cattle bonanza ended in the mid 1800s

Answer 4

Extreme weather and the invention of barbed wire

Question 5

Explain why the buffalo was so important to the native Americans of the Great Plains

Answer 5

Had everything they needed

Question 6

Where did the up and cp begin and end

Answer 6

Cp Sacramento to Utah

Up Omaha to Utah

Question 7

Why did the Union Pacific cover more mikes than the central p

Answer 7

Much of the land they had to cover was grassland etc making it easier

Question 8

What impact did the transcontinental railroad have on the United States

Answer 8

On bringing in goods from farther away places made it easier

Question 9

Pacific railway acts

Answer 9

Railways with the union and central

Question 10

Morrill land grant act

Answer 10

Act of congress granting each state 30,000 acres of land for each member it had in congress. Giving 90% to colleges

Question 11

Land speculator

Answer 11

Buys are large amount of land for a small amount of money and has no intention of using the land

Question 12

Homestead act

Answer 12

A law passed in the 1860s that offered up to 160 acres of public land to any head of a family who paid a registration fee on the land for five years

Question 13

Great Plains

Answer 13

Grassland prairie region of North America

Question 14

Reservation

Answer 14

An area of land managed by a Native American tribe under the us bureau of Indian affairs

Question 15

Little big horn

Answer 15

Occurred in 1876 and took place between the us cavalry and northern tribe Indians

Question 16

Ghost dance

Answer 16

Religious ceremony that started in the 1870s

Question 17

Massacre at wounded knee

Answer 17

1890 resulted in 300 deaths. It was the last major battle of the Indian wars of the late 19th century

Question 18

Assimilation

Answer 18

A person or persons acquire the social and physchological characteristics of a group

Question 19

Dawes act

Answer 19

1887 authorized the president of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians

Question 20

Long drive

Answer 20

High meat prices in eastern cities attracted a variety of entrepreneurs and prompted cattlemen to search for a way to bring them to market

Question 21

Homesteader

Answer 21

A track of land acquired under the homestead act

Question 22

Soddie

Answer 22

A house built of sod

Question 23

Dry farming

Answer 23

Planting drought resistant crops

Question 24

Bonanza farm

Answer 24

Large farms established in the western us

Question 25

Turner thesis

Answer 25

The argument advanced by historian Frederick Jackson turner in 1893 that American democracy was formed by the American frontier

Question 26

Stereotype

Answer 26

Image perpetuated without change

Question 27

The grange

Answer 27

1875 promote the social and economic needs of farmers in the us