Unit 5 Chapter 17

Question 1

Define the Term: Transcontinental Railroad

Answer 1

The first railroad that connected the western coast to the eastern coast of the United States

Question 2

Define the Term: Lode

Answer 2

A deposit of gold

Question 3

Define the Term: Homestead Act

Answer 3

The law that allowed people to apply for large amounts of land so long as they developed and improved it by building a house and farming

Question 4

What Native American tribe caused the most problem during the building of the Transcontinental Railroad

Answer 4

Sioux

Question 5

Define the Term: Reservations

Answer 5

Plots of land that the Federal Government placed the Native tribes on, usually not high quality land

Question 6

Who were the three main figures of the battle of little bighorn

Answer 6

Colonel Custer
Sitting Bull
Crazy Horse

Question 7

Explain the factors that led to the large conflicts between the plains Indians and the Sioux

Answer 7

Killing of the buffalo
Taking of Native lands
Placing Native Americans on reservations

Question 8

How did the United States drive France out of Mexico?

Answer 8

Put 50,000 troops on the rio grande border

Question 9

What were France, Britain, and Spain challenging by coming into Mexico?

Answer 9

Monroe Doctrine - west is closed to colonization

Question 10

What was the first asian country to open to American trade?

Answer 10

Japan

Question 11

Why did Japan open trade with the United States

Answer 11

There wasn’t much choice in the face of the modern weaponry on U.S. ships

Question 12

Define the Term: Boxer Rebellion

Answer 12

Chinese revolt of western influence, they destroyed all foreign goods and killed many ambassadors and foreign nationals

Question 13

Define the Term: Imperialism

Answer 13

Imposing one countries values and beliefs on another through conquest and empire building

Question 14

What were the objections to the purchase of Alaska?

Answer 14

Barren, frozen, little resources

Question 15

Define the Term: Yellow Journalism

Answer 15

News/reporting that focused on sensationalism rather than facts or the truth

Question 16

Who were the two primary figures at the center of Yellow Journalism

Answer 16

Hearst/Pulitzer

Question 17

What were the events that lead up to the Spanish American War

Answer 17

American’s perception of conditions in Cuba spurred by Yellow Journalism
Interception of the Spanish Ambassadors Letter
Imperialism as foreign policy
Sinking of the USS Maine

Question 18

What territories did the U.S. get as a result of the Spanish-American War?

Answer 18

Cuba*
Philippines
Puerto Rico
Guam

Question 19

Who was the leader of the Rough Riders?

Answer 19

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 20

Who was President for the Spanish American War?

Answer 20

William McKinley

Question 21

How did the Dawes Act impact the Native Americans?

Answer 21

It decreased tribal identity and further pushed them into poverty, further pushing them onto reservations

Question 22

What countries did the U.S. settle relations with by 1905?

Answer 22

England, Spain, France

Question 23

What was the overall impact of the Spanish-American war?

Answer 23

The U.S. emerges as a world power with an incredibly strong Navy