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STUDY GUIDE: CHAPTER 13 (The Settlement of the West and the Farmer’s Revolt)
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1.
What event marked the end of the Indian Wars?
2.
Why did the policy toward the Indians of the Plains change?
3.
How did the destruction of the buffalo contribute to the defeat of the Indians?
4.
Why did Indian resistance to whites increase in the 1860s?
5.
What did the federal government ultimately do with the Indians?
6.
Why did the Dawes Act fail?
7.
What was the difference between the perception and reality of gold rushes?
8.
How did mining contribute to the development of the United States?
9.
What factors accounted for the cattle boom? What factors ended the period of the great cattle barons and open range?
10.
What factors contributed to the land rush in the West?
11.
How did the federal government aid in the agricultural development of the Plains?
12.
Why was so little of the free land offered by the Homestead Act actually claimed by settlers?
13.
What did governments offer to encourage railroad construction?
14.
Why did western and southern farmers tend to support bimetallism?
15.
What contributed to the rising debt of farmers?
16.
What did the Cleveland administration do in response to the Panic of 1893?
17.
What event marked the collapse of Populism?
18.
What was the primary reason why William Jennings Bryan lost the election of 1896?
MATCHING
19.
bimetallism
20.
soddy
21.
Fort Laramie Treaty 1851
34.
35.
36.
longhorn
Populists vaquero
22.
ghost town
23.
Chisholm Trail
24.
long drive
25.
boom towns
26.
Grange
27.
gold standard
28.
Ghost Dance
29.
Abilene
30.
exodusters
31.
Morrill Act
32.
Red River War
33.
buffalo chips
37.
barbed wire
38.
bonanza
39.
Alliances
40.
Helen Hunt Jackson
41.
Oliver Kelley
42.
Sitting Bull
43.
George Armstrong Custer
44.
John Chivington
45.
Buffalo Bill Cody
46.
William McKinley
47.
William J. Fetterman
48.
Crazy Horse