Unit 1 Exam Ch. 17

Question 1

Who were buffalo soldiers/who named them?

Answer 1

Black soldiers who fought for the govt. Name by the Indians because their skin was same color as the buffalo.

Question 2

What is strip mining

Answer 2

Large Corps gouge out large portions of the land to get to gold and silver then leave it like that and move on.

Question 3

What was the Homestead Act and when was it enacted?

Answer 3

160 acres free land to anyone who will: build a house/dig a well, plow ten acres, and live on it. 1862

Question 4

what are sodbusters

Answer 4

people used the sod and mud as bricks to build their houses

Question 5

What two races were half the cowboy population

Answer 5

Black and Mexican

Question 6

famous Indian who followed Dawes Act

Answer 6

Tom Torlino from Navajo Torlino

Question 7

how did the railroads make so much money

Answer 7

as people developed the land, the cost of the land value went up. That is when the railroads would sell the land as they moved westward.

Question 8

What was the federal government’s 1st colonial empire?

Answer 8

The West

Question 9

what happens to what the west produces

Answer 9

they get sent east to be traded

Question 10

How many buffalo destroyed

Answer 10

13 million to 1000 left.

Question 11

Dawes Act

Answer 11

To assimilate the Indians to white society. Disband tribes, learn the bible and forget their own religious beliefs, dress as whites in return for 160 acres.

Question 12

What was the first industry of the west/most famous/year began/what produced

Answer 12

Mining/CA Gold Rush/1848/gold, silver, copper

Question 13

Where was cattle from west sent to and how

Answer 13

cattle driven from Texas 1000 miles to railroads in MO & KS to sell, and transported cattle to get to market in the east.

Question 14

what did cowboys driving cattle face

Answer 14

Indian attacks and or Indians requesting payment to pass.

Question 15

What two things needed to be removed to settle the Great Plains

Answer 15

Indians and buffalo

Question 16

what was invented to keep cattle from roaming onto farms

Answer 16

Barbed wire fencing

Question 17

what disappeared in 1890 as reported by the us census

Answer 17

the western frontier (all the west settled to the pacific).

Question 18

how long to settle the east and how long to settle the west

Answer 18

250 to settle east to TN. 30 years the settle west of TN to the pacific.

Question 19

Economic Development in the west/3 booms and busts

Answer 19

Mining, Cattle raising, farming

Question 20

How were railroads compensated to continue to build

Answer 20

for every mile of railroad built the govt would give them 10 miles of land to sell to offset costs.

Question 21

What replaced buffalo grasses on the plains

Answer 21

Wheat

Question 22

what creates the continental economy in the US

Answer 22

They are tied together by the Railroads

Question 23

What did the railroads signify for this time period

Answer 23

technology/beginning of modern us economy

Question 24

US response to Custer massacre/where/year/brought an end to what?

Answer 24

They killed all the men, women, and children with machine guns at Wounded Knee. 1890. End of 30 years indian war.

Question 25

what years and what occurred in the 30 years indian war

Answer 25

1860 to 1890. Indians moved to reservations or killed if they resisted

Question 26

Where is the Great Plains located

Answer 26

between the Rocky Mounts. and the MS River

Question 27

What myth was sold to families coming west about the great plains

Answer 27

rain will follow the plow/plowing is god’s work

Question 28

What is ghost dancing

Answer 28

indian ceremonial dance to make things like they were (no white man, buffalo back, spirits of ancestors back, new grass and soil).

Question 29

Colonel Armstrong Custer. About/year/battle/famous Indian Chief

Answer 29

Custer’s Last Stand. 1876. Brought 200 of his men to capture escaped Indians (Sitting Bull), but there were 2000 indians and they were massacred.

Question 30

Importance/famous quote of Gen. Phillip Sheridan

Answer 30

Sent to exterminate the Indians. “The only good Indian is a dead Indian”.

Question 31

What was the free open range and where

Answer 31

no settlers, just a cattle bonanza where they roamed free. In West TX, NM, AZ, CO, UT.

Question 32

what is the western settlement plan

Answer 32

frontier line keeps moving further west as the land is settled.