Unit 5-6 Flashcards
The 1889 land rush only opened a _____________ not assigned to any tribe.
western strip of Oklahoma
Under the Treaty of Fort Laramie, the Sioux were granted__________
the Black Hills “as long as the grass shall grow”
Treaties with the Sioux and Nez Perces were broken when whites ____________
found gold on their lands.
In mining boomtowns known as “Helldorados,” men _____________
outnumbered women by as much as ten to one.
The cattle drives in the 1860s-1870s would not have been possible without ____________
rail lines to eastern markets.
By 1900, what group in California played the same role as poor black sharecroppers in the South?
Chinese
The Homestead Act granted 160 acres of public domain to any settler who would __________
live on the land and improve it for five years.
Which of these explains why it is so important for farm families to cooperate with each other on the Great Plains?
the harsh climate and unyielding soil of the region
After defeating Custer at Little Big Horn, Sioux chief Sitting Bull reportedly made which of these statements?
“Now they will never let us rest”
The people who benefitted most from the Homestead Act were the ____________
land speculators.
European immigrants to the Great Plains tended to form ___________
tight-knit, ethically distinctive communities
The Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889 reversed ____________.
federal Indian policy that had been in place since the 1830s
The Mormons’ most controversial practice was _________.
polygamy
Pima cooperation with white settlers brought them _________
impoverishment
After settling in Utah in the 1840s, the Mormons established hundreds of _____________
communities from Oregon to Mexico
Under human use, the natural environment of the West was_____________.
destroyed or significantly degraded
On the Great Plains, the most successful farmers were those with __________.
money and political power
The first national park in the United States was __________
Yellowstone
The Great Plains were often referred to by early explorers as ______________
“the Great Desert”
One result of the mining boom in the West was the______________
creation of strong and effective unions
In 1830, Congress passed the Indian Removal Act, which provided funds to __________
relocate all eastern tribes by force if necessary
The Santa Fe Ring was a group of land spectators, lawyers, and politicians who _____________
cheated Mexicanos out of their landholdings
The Cherokee responded to pressure from whites by _____________. (3 things)
learning English, becoming Christians, and adopting farming
Unlike European immigrants, native-born American settlers of the Great Plains tended to _____________
settle as individual families isolated on solitary homesteads.
Army commanders encouraged the slaughter of buffalo herds because they thought it would_____________
break tribal resistance to the reservation system
Sears, Roebuck and Company and Montgomery Ward, the great mail-order houses, were located in Chicago because it was ______________
the center of the consolidated rail system
