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| 2008415319 | I. The Clash of Cultures on the Plains | ... | 0 | |
| 2100524182 | OBJECTIVE: 1 Describe the nature of the cultural conflicts and battles that accompanied the white American migration into the Great Plains and the Far West. | 1 | ||
| 2008514762 | This transformed the Sioux and Cheyenne from crop-growing villagers into nomadic hunters. | Spanish horses |  | 2 |
| 2008436814 | This provided food, clothing, shelter, and other important items to the native-Americans way of life in the Great Plains. | the Buffalo |  | 3 |
| 2008476106 | This established boundaries for the territory of tribes and attempted to separate the Indians into two great "colonies." | the reservation system |  | 4 |
| 2008481745 | This is where the federal government signed two treaties with the "chiefs" of various "tribes" in 1851 and again in 1853. These treaties marked the beginning of the reservation system. | Fort Laramie 1851 Fort Atkinson 1853 |  | 5 |
| 2008534590 | Many battles waged between the Indians and the U. S. Army after the Civil War in the West. The Army was made up of many immigrants and 1/5 were African-Americans which were "dubbed" - | Buffalo Soldiers |  | 6 |
| 2008544573 | II. Receding Population | ... | 7 | |
| 2100526482 | OBJECTIVE: 2 Explain the development of federal policy towards Native Americans in the late 19th century. | 8 | ||
| 2008554520 | Many savage clashes occurred in the West. In 1864, Colonel J. M. Chivington's militia massacred in cold blood some 400 Indians who apparently they had been promised immunity. | Sand Creek Massacre |  | 9 |
| 2008580946 | In 1866 a Sioux war party attempted to block construction of the Bozeman Trail to the Montana goldfields. Captain William J. Fetterman's command of 81 soldiers was attacked, killed, and mutilated in Wyoming's Bighorn Mountains | Fetterman's Massacre |  | 10 |
| 2008632344 | This General and 250 soldiers of the 7th Cavalry was defeated by Sitting Bull and others at the Battle of the Little Big Horn River in 1876. | Colonel George Armstrong Custer |  | 11 |
| 2008641573 | Leader of the Nez Perce tribe who conducted a brilliant but unsuccessful military campaign in 1877. On his surrender he said "I shall fight no more forever." | Chief Joseph |  | 12 |
| 2008653846 | Famous Indian leader who led the Apache's tribes of Arizona and New Mexico. | Geronimo |  | 13 |
| 2008662502 | The three factors that led to the defeat of the Indians in the west. | Locomotives - disease - extinction of the Buffalo |  | 14 |
| 2008672467 | IV. Bellowing Herds of Bison | ... | 15 | |
| 2008683364 | When the Civil War closed there were more than 15 million Buffalo on the Great Plains. By 1885 there were fewer than | a thousand |  | 16 |
| 2008685002 | V. The End of the Trail | ... | 17 | |
| 2008701598 | The author of a book A Century of Dishonor that in 1881 chronicled the dismal history of Indian-white relations. | Helen Hunt Jackson |  | 18 |
| 2008706806 | This novel by Helen Hunt Jackson was centered around the cruel mistreatment of Indians in California. | Ramona | | 19 |
| 2008725163 | The name of the plan to make Native Americans part of white culture. | Assimilation | 20 | |
| 2008735940 | In the 19th century some advocated kind treatment of the Indians really had no more respect for traditional Indian culture than those who sought to exterminate them. | humanitarians | 21 | |
| 2008765003 | This ritual was supposed to restore Native Americans way of life but it made the U.S. Army nervous. | the Ghost Dance |  | 22 |
| 2008767658 | The name of the medicine man that started the Ghost Dance | Wovoka | 23 | |
| 2008792372 | In 1890 this resulted when the U. S. Army fired cannons on 350 starving, freezing Sioux; within minutes, 300 of them were dead. | Battle of Wounded Knee |  | 24 |
| 2008802540 | This law intended to assimilate the Indians by breaking up American reservations. | 1887 the Dawes Severalty Act |  | 25 |
| 2008894924 | In 1879 in Pennsylvania, this was founded to teach Native American children how to behave like Whites. | the Indian Carlisle School | 26 | |
| 2008821614 | All Indians were not granted this until 1924 | citizenship | 27 | |
| 2008862095 | The Act that eventually and partially tried to restore the tribal basis of Indian life. | the Indian Reorganization Act (the "Indian New Deal") 1934 | 28 | |
| 2008870534 | VI. Mining: From Dishpan to Ore Breaker | ... | 29 | |
| 2100530545 | OBJECTIVE : 3 Analyze the brief flowering and decline of the cattle and mining frontiers, and the settling of the arid west by small farmers increasingly engaged with a worldwide economy. | 30 | ||
| 2008967814 | The largest single source of silver and gold deposits in the frontier of the West in 1860 - 1890 that brought wealth and statehood to Nevada | Comstock Lode |  | 31 |
| 2009884687 | The name of those who made way out to these mining ventures at this time. | "fifty-niners" | 32 | |
| 2009244077 | These "Helldorados" sprouted from the desert sands like magic | boomtowns |  | 33 |
| 2009268582 | These groups performed early justice which proved to be a crude semblance of order in these towns. | vigilance committees |  | 34 |
| 2009292792 | This "boom and bust" life cycle of towns in the west came to be called this once the mines dried up such as Virginia City, Nevada. | "ghost towns" |  | 35 |
| 2009314903 | This played an important role in attracting the substantial white population to the West. | the mining industry | | 36 |
| 2009339322 | Type of mining that uses high pressure water to wash away entire hillsides in order to search for deposits. | Hydraulic Mining |  | 37 |
| 2009347709 | VII. Beef Bonanzas and the Long Drive | ... | 38 | |
| 2009367442 | General term for the three month herding of cattle from the grassy plains to the railroad terminals of Kansas, Nebraska, and Wyoming. | Long-drive |  | 39 |
| 2009442315 | Many ranchers began using this to enclose their ranches. | barbed wire |  | 40 |
| 2009464118 | Many American cowboys learned their trade from Mexican cowboys called: | vaqueros |  | 41 |
| 2009481059 | A major cattle route from San Antonio, Texas through Oklahoma to Abilene, Kansas | Chisholm Trail |  | 42 |
| 2009507836 | VIII. the Farmers Frontier | ... | 43 | |
| 2009522752 | Act that offered free land to western settlers | Homestead Act 1862 |  | 44 |
| 2009598405 | A frontier home, usually dug into a hill or made from sod | Soddy |  | 45 |
| 2009669668 | Explorer and geoligist who warned that traditional agriculture could not succeed west of the 100th meridian. | John Wesley Powell |  | 46 |
| 2009698446 | This lead to a temporarily successful method in farming where frequent shallow cultivation was applied. However, this helped contribute to the "Dust Bowl" of the Great depression. | "dry farming" |  | 47 |
| 2009723689 | He perfected barbed wire in 1874 which allowed fences to be built in a dry treeless region. | Joseph Glidden |  | 48 |
| 2009772414 | IX. The Far west Comes of Age | ... | 49 | |
| 2009861623 | In an attempt to encourage people to settle the west. In 1889, this territory offered a major land giveaway in which 2 million acres of land was given away in 24 hours. | Oklahoma land giveaway 1889 = "eighty-niners" |  | 50 |
| 2009894367 | Became the "Sooner State in 1907. | Oklahoma |  | 51 |
| 2009905739 | X. The Fading Frontier | ... | 52 | |
| 2100533542 | OBJECTIVE: 4 Summarize Frederick Jackson Turner's thesis regarding the significance of the frontier in American history, describe its strengths and weaknesses, and indicate the ways in which the American West became and remains a distinctive region of the United States. | 53 | ||
| 2009914998 | In 1890, the superintendent of the census bureau announced that this no longer existed. | the Western Frontier Line |  | 54 |
| 2009955264 | The closing of the American frontier line inspired this writer to produce the inspiring influential essay: "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" in 1893. | Frederick Jackson Turner |  | 55 |
| 2010039334 | This was created in 1872 to preserve vanishing resources and to establish a national park. | Yellowstone National Park |  | 56 |
| 2010065789 | This theory that the West dampened class conflict, while exaggerated, did have some validity because free western land did attract many immigrants to the West who might have crowded urban job markets. | safety valve theory | 57 | |
| 2010104178 | XI. The Farm Becomes a Factory | ... | 58 | |
| 2100534483 | OBJECTIVE: 5 Describe the economic forces that drove farmers into debt, and describe how the Populist Party organized to protest their oppression, attempted to forge an alliance with urban workers, and vigorously attacked the two major parties after the onset of the depression of the 1890s. | 59 | ||
| 2010113894 | This is what high prices persuaded farmers to concentrate on growing. | single "crash crops" such as wheat or corn | 60 | |
| 2010140116 | In 1872, Montgomery Ward and Sears Roebuck introduced this as a way to reach farmers. | mail-oder catalog |  | 61 |
| 2010176992 | This inventor dramatically sped up the process of harvesting wheat with his reaper in 1837. | Cyrus McCormick |  | 62 |
| 2010210869 | This amazing system which included farming, banking, and industry in the postwar years was efficient but led to many farming foreclosures. | mechanization of agriculture |  | 63 |
| 2010232153 | To make more money this led farmers to create these in order to make more money. | bonanza farms |  | 64 |
| 2010292961 | XII. deflation Dooms the Debtor | ... | 65 | |
| 2010321517 | In the 1880s and 90s, the volume of agricultural goods ___, and the price received for the goods ____. | increased decreased | 66 | |
| 2010325855 | Farmers also felt that this had deflated causing them to have to pay back more for their loans. | currency | 67 | |
| 2010341430 | This increased problem led to more than 100,000 farmers could not pay on this 8 to 40 percent interest rate. | mortgages | 68 | |
| 2010351523 | XIII. Unhappy Farmers | ... | 69 | |
| 2010358517 | This bug also plagued farmers at the turn of the 20th century. | grasshoppers |  | 70 |
| 2010372033 | This protected U.S. industrialists, but did nothing for farmers who had to compete on an unregulated world market. | tariffs | 71 | |
| 2010396870 | Farmers were at the mercy of middlemen as well as their shipping rates. To this point farmers had failed to organize | railroads | 72 | |
| 2010399226 | XIV. The Farmers Take Their Stand | ... | 73 | |
| 2019408273 | this currency had been pulled out of circulation after the Civil War causing farmers to lose money. | greenbacks | 74 | |
| 2019408274 | This organization was organized by farmers after the Civil War in 1867. | the National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry | 75 | |
| 2019408275 | the Grange was created by | Oliver Hudson Kelley social and educational issues |  | 76 |
| 2019408276 | By 1870 however, the Grange began to fight against this | the railroads |  | 77 |
| 2019408277 | Granger laws however were defeated in this Supreme Court case decision | Wabash decision (1886) | 78 | |
| 2019408278 | this party formed in 1878 and elected 14 members to Congress and in the Presidential election of 1880, ran General James B. Weaver, even though he only got 3% of the popular vote. | Greenback Labor Party | 79 | |
| 2019421799 | XV. Prelude to Populism | ... | 80 | |
| 2020066491 | Farmers formed this organization to fight the railroads in the late 1870s in Texas. | the Farmers' Alliance | 81 | |
| 2020066492 | This organization was created by blacks in the 1880s in the South who had been excluded by the Farmers' Alliance. | Colored Farmers National Alliance and by 1890 had over 250,000 members | 82 | |
| 2020108435 | This political party emerged out of the Farmers' Alliance in 1892. | Populists - People's Party *direct election of senators - secret ballots - graduated income tax - silver . . . . . . . | 83 | |
| 2020210747 | XVI. Coxey's Army and the Pullman Strike | ... | 84 | |
| 2020210748 | This panic helped to strengthen the Populist cause in the 1890s. | the Panic of 1893 | 85 | |
| 2020210749 | This famous "General" and his "army" marched on Washington D. C. in order to demand that the government relieve unemployment with a public works program. | "General" Jacob S. Coxey Coxey and his "lieutenants" were arrested for walking on the grass |  | 86 |
| 2041911927 | Inventor of the the sleeping cars whose workers went on strike in Chicago. | George Pullman |  | 87 |
| 2041955680 | This President justified federal intervention into the Pullman strike of 1894 on the grounds the strike was preventing the transit of U.S. mail. | Grover Cleveland. |  | 88 |
| 2042039355 | The federal court issued this marking the first time in which this was used against strikers. | court injunction | 89 | |
| 2042060469 | XVII. Golden McKinley and Silver Bryan | ... | 90 | |
| 2100542840 | OBJECTIVE: 6 Describe the Democratic party's revolt against President Cleveland and the rise of the insurgent William Jennings Bryan's free silver campaign. | 91 | ||
| 2100541972 | OBJECTIVE: 7 Explain why William McKinley proved able to defeat Bryan's populist campaign and how the Republicans' triumph signaled the rise of urban power and the end of the third party system in American politics. | 92 | ||
| 2042091398 | The Depression of the 1890s and episodes like the Pullman Strike made this election shape up as a battle between down and out workers and farmers and establishment conservatives. | the Election of 1896 | 93 | |
| 2042108489 | This became the major issue of the 1896 election. | Gold or silver | 94 | |
| 2042125098 | He was the Republican candidate in the 1896 election. | William McKinley |  | 95 |
| 2042163622 | He was an Ohioan and organized McKinley's 1896 campaign and provided a huge amount of money to the McKinley campaign. | Mark Hanna Mckinley's campaign amassed $16 million |  | 96 |
| 2042173025 | He was the only president to serve two nonconsecutive terms as president. He was also tarnished by the economic depression of the 1890s as well as his position against the strikers in the Pullman strike. | Grover Cleveland 22nd and 24th |  | 97 |
| 2042248964 | He delivered this famous "cross of gold" speech to the 1896 at the Democratic convention. This speech got him nominated the next day. | William Jennings Bryan |  | 98 |
| 2042293227 | XVIII. Class Conflict | ... | 99 | |
| 2042334076 | He went on to win the election of 1896 271 to 176. | William McKinley |  | 100 |
| 2042407256 | McKinley's victory ushered in this new political era dominated by Republican presidents for 16 consecutive years. | fourth party system | 101 | |
| 2042412261 | XIX. Republican Stand-pattism Enthroned | ... | 102 | |
| 2042479418 | This was passed in 1900 over last-ditch silverite opposition. It provided that paper currency be redeemed freely in gold. | Gold Standard Act of 1900 |  | 103 |
| 2047434279 | The End | ... | 104 |
