Western Expansion

Question 1

What was the biggest western town at this time?

Answer 1

San Francisco. This is because of gold and the railroad ended there

Question 2

What railroad went from Chicago to San Francisco?

Answer 2

Union Pacific Railroad. This was the first transcontinental railroad

Question 3

What railroad went from Chicago to Seattle?

Answer 3

Northern Pacific Railroad

Question 4

What railroad went from St. Louis to Los Angelas?

Answer 4

Southern Pacific Railroad

Question 5

Who was Thomas Nast?

Answer 5

He created the political cartoon called the doonsberry. Mainly made fun of how the government treated minorities, particularly Chinese or Native Americans

Question 6

What was one way we handled the Native Americans when heading west?

Answer 6

We killed their food source, the buffalo

Question 7

What Native American tribe gave the US the most trouble?

Answer 7

The Sioux

Question 8

What do the Sioux believe in?

Answer 8

They believed that life is a series of circles, and that spirits could be invoked with sun dances, and visions could be attained by self torture (starvation and dehydration)

Question 9

What affect did the Americans have on Native Americans?

Answer 9

• we gave them diseases
• homesteaders and farmers took their land and hunting ground
• railroad took their land
• miners tore up the land

Question 10

What is the battle of Little Big Horn?

Answer 10

This was the battle against the Native Americans in which general Custard died

Question 11

What is the only battle the Native Americans won?

Answer 11

Wetcloud battle

Question 12

What is the Fetterman Massacre?

Answer 12

This is when Native Americans killed all Americans in the forts in prime buffalo hunting ground

Question 13

What is the Sand Creek Massacre?

Answer 13

This is when American Chivington attacked all of the natives that jumped the reservation

Question 14

What happened at Wounded Knee?

Answer 14

Natives were performing the ‘Ghost Dance’ when guns went off and battle ensued. Sitting Bull died.

Question 15

What is the ‘Ghost Dance’?

Answer 15

This was performed with the belief that it would have bullets pass right through them and not hurt

Question 16

Who said, “From here, I will fight no more, forever”

Answer 16

Chief Joseph

Question 17

What is the effect of Helen Jackson Turner’s book, “Living With Dishonor”?

Answer 17

The public opinion of natives sympathizes, and the Indian Rights Association is created, which forces tribes to assimilate with US culture. The US has good intentions, but it backfires. Schools were set up on reservations that taught English, Christian values, American jobs, and farming. Led to alienation and higher depresion rates among natives

Question 18

What is the Dawes Act?

Answer 18

This introduces natives to individual ownership. Breaks up the land of the tribe and gives each native 160 acres

Question 19

What was the Comstock Strike?

Answer 19

In Nevada, $300 million gold and silver mined their during 1860-1880

Question 20

Who was the most famous rancher?

Answer 20

Teddy Roosevelt

Question 21

What were trails used for Cattle Drives?

Answer 21

The Chisholm and The Shawnee, which ended in Kansas, and The Western and Good Night Love, which both ended in Nebraska

Question 22

What are Mexican Cowboys called?

Answer 22

Vaqueros

Question 23

What was the political party made by farmers?

Answer 23

Grange. Advocated for the regulation of railroads, but the prices didn’t go down because the Federal Government needed money from the railroad

Question 24

What national political party comes from the Grange?

Answer 24

The Populist Party, which later becomes the Progressive Party when industrial workers join in

Question 25

Who was Oliver Kelly?

Answer 25

He was big in the Granges

Question 26

What does Munns vs. Illinois do?

Answer 26

It was a victory for farmers. It said that states could regulate grain elevator prices because the railroad used to own them and would charge more

Question 27

What did Wabash vs. Illinois do?

Answer 27

This was a case to see if the state could regulate how much railroads could charge the farmers. It went to the Supreme Court and they said that one state couldn’t regulate the price because the railroad runs through more than one state

Question 28

What was the Federal Interstate Commission?

Answer 28

This was supposed to regulate railroad prices, but it didn’t because those who worked for the railroad were on the Commission

Question 29

What are Sooners?

Answer 29

They are cheaters, particularly during land grabs

Question 30

?What was the Timber Culture Act?

Answer 30

This gave 160 acres of land to anyone if they would plant 40 acres of trees

Question 31

What was the Pacific Railroad Act?

Answer 31

This gave land to the railroad companies to use out west

Question 32

Who is Frederick Remington?

Answer 32

He was a very famous artist out west, and most of his artwork now resides in the White House

Question 33

Who is Owen Wister?

Answer 33

He wrote “The Virginian”, which the show “Panderosa” is based on

Question 34

What were black soldiers out west called?

Answer 34

Buffalo Soldiers

Question 35

Who is Crocker?

Answer 35

He was the railroad guy who brought in the Chinese to work on the railroad. They were often derogatorily referred to as Cocker’s Pets

Question 36

What Supreme Court case outlawed polygamy?

Answer 36

Reynolds vs. USA. This involved the Mormons

Question 37

Who is William Jennings Bryan?

Answer 37

He was greatly advocated for by the farmers and the Populist/Progressive party. He lost the presidential election 3 times. Biggest thing was his “Cross of Gold” speech. The farmers wanted money to be backed by silver instead of gold. “And don’t nail me to a cross of gold.”

Question 38

What were some problems with the Populist Party?

Answer 38

• only farmers
• they were racist, split into black and white parties
• Democratic party took all their ideas
• Western and Southern farmers didn’t unite