The West

Question 1

Frederick Jackson Turner

Answer 1

historian famous for his argument titled “The Frontier Thesis”

Question 2

Chief Joseph

Answer 2

One of the three Nez Perce chiefs that gave an amazing speech when he surrendered and relocate to an Indian Reservation

Question 3

Buffalo Soldiers

Answer 3

original members of the U.S. 10th Cavalry Regiment which were the first peacetime all-black regiments in the U.S. Army

Question 4

Wounded Knee

Answer 4

Indian Reservation in southwestern South Dakota and there was a massacre killing 150 Native Americans in 1890

Question 5

Dawes Act

Answer 5

Act written in 1887 to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians on the various reservations, and to extend the protection of the laws of the United States and the Territories over the Indians, and for other purposes

Question 6

Homestead Act

Answer 6

Act signed in 1862 and it opened up settlement in the Western United States to any American and also freed slaves to claim up to 160 acres of federal land

Question 7

Great Plains

Answer 7

flat land which lies west of the Mississippi River and east of the Rocky Mountains in Canada and the U.S.

Question 8

Chinese Exclusion Act

Answer 8

(1882) restricted immigration into the United States of an ethnic working group which were Asians

Question 9

Comstock Lode

Answer 9

A rich vein of gold and silver discovered in 1859 at Virginia City in western Nevada