Name: ______________________________ Hr. _____
Chapter 18 Study Guide & Vocabulary
Due: January 23, 2008
Section 1 Vocabulary
1. frontier: _______________________________________________________________________________
2. Comstock Lode: _________________________________________________________________________
3. boomtowns: ____________________________________________________________________________
4. Cattle Kingdom: _________________________________________________________________________
5. cattle drive: _____________________________________________________________________________
6. Chisholm Trail: _________________________________________________________________________
7. Pony Express: __________________________________________________________________________
8. transcontinental railroad: __________________________________________________________________
Section 2 Vocabulary
9. Treaty of Ft. Laramie: ____________________________________________________________________
10. reservations: ___________________________________________________________________________
11. Crazy Horse: ___________________________________________________________________________
12. Treaty of Medicine Lodge: ________________________________________________________________
13. buffalo soldiers: _________________________________________________________________________
14. George Armstrong Custer: _________________________________________________________________
15. Sitting Bull: ____________________________________________________________________________
16. Battle of the Little Bighorn: ________________________________________________________________
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17. Massacre at Wounded Knee: _______________________________________________________________
18. Long Walk: ____________________________________________________________________________
19. Geronimo: _____________________________________________________________________________
20. Ghost Dance: ___________________________________________________________________________
21. Sarah Winnemucca: ______________________________________________________________________
22. Dawes General Allotment Act: _____________________________________________________________
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Section 3 Vocabulary
23. Homestead Act: _________________________________________________________________________
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24. Morrill Act: ____________________________________________________________________________
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25. Exodusters: ____________________________________________________________________________
26. sodbusters: _____________________________________________________________________________
27. dry farming: ____________________________________________________________________________
28. Annie Bidwell: __________________________________________________________________________
29. National Grange: ________________________________________________________________________
30. deflation: ______________________________________________________________________________
31. William Jennings Bryan: __________________________________________________________________
32. Populist Party: __________________________________________________________________________
Study Guide (use whole chapter)
33. What three economic activities attracted people to the West? _____________________________________
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34. What risks did miners face? ________________________________________________________________
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35. Why did the Cattle Kingdom come to an end? _________________________________________________
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36. What does “Open Range” mean? ____________________________________________________________
37. Who invented time zones and why? _________________________________________________________
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38. How did the railroad affect the development of the West? ________________________________________
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39. Who built the transcontinental railroad and what were the working conditions like? ____________________
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40. What role did cowboys play in developing the West? ____________________________________________
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41. What was the federal policy towards the Plains Indians in the 1860-70’s? ____________________________
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42. How did the buffalo shape the Plains Indians’ way of life? _______________________________________
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43. How did the Dawes Act affect American Indians? ______________________________________________
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44. Why do you think most Indian groups stopped resisting the U.S. government? _______________________
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45. How do YOU feel about Battle of Little Bighorn and Wounded Knee Massacre? _____________________
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46. Why was Chief Joseph’s speech so important to our history? _____________________________________
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47. How did the Homestead Act and the Morrill Act affect the pioneers? _______________________________
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48. Why would African American families move to Kansas? _________________________________________
49. How and why did Plains farmers change farming techniques? _____________________________________
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50. What role did women play in the West? Who were the role models? ________________________________
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51. What type of things did pioneers do to combat the loneliness and isolation that was common in the West? __
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52. How did the Oklahoma Land Rush signal of the closing of the frontier? ____________________________
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53. Why did the Populist Party want to regulate the railroad and telegraph services? Were they successful? ___
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