Westward Expansion 12-16

Question 0

Was the federal gov getting more or less powerful?

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Question 1

What was reconstruction?

Answer 1

It was the time while the country was joining back together.

Question 2

What two presidents were impeached?

Answer 2

Andrew Johnson

Question 3

What is a carpetbagger?

Answer 3

Notherners who moved to the south for economic gain

Question 4

What ended reconstruction

Answer 4

The Compromise of 1877

Question 5

How many slaves were freed

Answer 5

4 million

Question 6

What was the case of plessy vs ferguson?

Answer 6

Plessy bought a ticket for the white car of a train and then he got arrested

Supreme Court decided every thing should be separate but equal

Question 7

Brown vs. board of education

Answer 7

Black little girl walks farther to the black school than the white school.

Dad gets mad and has trial, ends segregation

Question 8

What is a transcontinental railroad

Answer 8

A railroad that connects oceans

Question 9

How did the railroads help the economy?

Answer 9

West sent livestock and grain and lumber

East sent manufactured goods

Question 10

What was the gold fever?

Answer 10

When there was a ton of gold to mine

Question 11

Lode

Answer 11

Valuable minerals in layers of rock

Question 12

Bonanza

Answer 12

A rich mineral deposit

Question 13

Boomtown

Answer 13

A town that has recently grown in population

Question 14

What was the long drive?

Answer 14

When cattle were brought from the south to the north and many people joined in, when lots of people did it prices were lowered so many people stopped. Barbed wire was one of the things that stopped many people.

Question 15

What are vigilante groups

Answer 15

They were people who took the laws into their own hands.

Question 16

Three famous outlaws

Answer 16

John wesley hardin

Billy the kid

Jesse James

Question 17

Three ways the native Americans used buffalo

Answer 17

Meat ate it
Hides clothing and teepees
Bones and horns tools and weapons

Question 18

Who brought first horses

Answer 18

1500s spanyards

Question 19

Treating of fort laramie

Answer 19

Americans and Native Americans

Set boundaries for tribes

Question 20

Sand creek massacre

Answer 20

Disagreement is going on

Troops fired on Cheyanne 200 dead

Question 21

2nd treaty of fort laramie

Answer 21

A treaty to stop fighting after the Sand Creek massacre

Gave land to the Native Americans in the black hills sd

Question 22

Who was sitting bull

Answer 22

A Soix war chief and spiritual leader

Fought US troops
Out spoken critic of the US government

Question 23

Geronimo

Answer 23

Chief

For 25 years he is trying not to get captured

Question 24

For god and country Geronimo Geronimo Geronimo

Answer 24

Navy seal said it after he killed osama bin laden

Geronimo was code name for mission

Question 25

Long walk

Answer 25

A walk the navajos had to take to get to a new reservation

300 miles

Question 26

How many buffalo before and after

Answer 26

60,000,000

200,000 now

Question 27

Little big horn

Answer 27

Custer and all his men were killed

Custer invaded Indian territory for gold

Sitting Bull killed all of them

Question 28

Dawes Act

Answer 28

A law that divides tribal land up.

Question 29

Wounded Knee massacre

Answer 29

Wavoka, a leader was leading the tribe in a ghost dance

The americans thought they were preparing for war

Americans killed 200 indians

Question 30

Olaf olssens goal

Answer 30

Own their own home

Question 31

What did the homestead act provide

Answer 31

160 acres of free land, had to farm it for 5 years

Question 32

Three good inventions

Answer 32

Steel plow- john deere
Windmill
Reapers

Question 33

What was the purpose of Grange?

Answer 33

To meet the social needs of farmers

Question 34

Munn vs Illinois

Answer 34

Made it so the federal government could regulate the railroads

Question 35

The great commoner

Answer 35

William Jennings Bryan