Social Studies Study Guide
Chapter 18
Know these terms:
Vaqueros
Open Range
Subsidies
Reservations
Tycoons
Lodes
Vigilantes
Nomads
Homesteaders
Boom towns
Ghost towns
Cow towns
Dry farming
Bonanza farming
Know these people:
Glidden
Custer
Chivington
Nobel
Hill
McCoy
Greeley
Stoker
H. G. Wells
Houdini
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Jack the Ripper
Lizzie Borden
Winchester
Freud
Know these jobs: Cowboys Ranchers Miners
The Chicago Fire
American Motivations
Railroad
Text Reading
Multiple Choice
Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1.This state joined the Union in 1876.
a. Colorado
b. Oklahoma
c. Montana
d. Kansas
2.The Central Pacific relied on these workers.
a. Chinese
b. Germans
c. Irish
d. African Americans
3.Wide-brimmed hats, chaps, and lariats were the equipment of
a. dry farmers.
b. sodbusters.
c. vaqueros.
d. homesteaders.
4.When thousands of cattle ran in panic it was called
a. dry farming.
b. homesteading.
c. a branding.
d. a stampede.
5.The central Plains were home to the
a. Crow.
b. Arapaho.
c. Apache.
d. Cheyenne.
6.The Indian Peace Commission recommended that Native Americans be
a. eliminated.
b. honored.
c. moved to reservations.
d. captured or killed.
7.Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse defeated this Civil War veteran and his forces.
a. Helen Hunt Jackson
b. William McKinley
c. J. M. Chivington
d. George Armstrong Custer
8.The last Native American to surrender formally to the United States was
a. Sitting Bull.
b. Geronimo.
c. Crazy Horse.
d. Chief Joseph.
9.Using machine guns, soldiers killed more than 300 starving Lakota men, women, and children at
a. Sand Creek.
b. San Carlos.
c. Wounded Knee.
d. Ghost Dance.
10.This organization formed the People's Party.
a. National Grange
b. 4-H Club
c. Federal Farmers Association
d. Farmers' Alliances
11.The network of farmers' self-help organizations eventually came to be called the
a. Southern Alliance.
b. National Grange.
c. Long Drive.
d. Pikes Peak.
12.The Union Pacific relied on these workers.
a. Chinese
b. British
c. Irish and African Americans
d. Germans
13.A symbol that marks ownership burned into the hide of cattle is called a
a. homestead.
b. dry farming.
c. brand.
d. sodbuster.
14.This was one approach of the sodbusters.
a. dry farming
b. wet farming
c. lode farming
d. ore farming
15.Texas ranches that were not fenced in or divided into lots were
a. sodbusters.
b. dry farms.
c. open range ranches.
d. branding farms.
16.This nomadic northern Plains nation followed the buffalo.
a. Crow
b. Apache
c. Cheyenne
d. Sioux
17.This Nez Perce leader surrendered in northern Montana.
a. Chief Joseph
b. Crazy Horse
c. Geronimo
d. Sitting Bull
18.This proposed to break up the reservations and encouraged Native Americans to become farmers.
a. Bureau of Indian Affairs
b. Freedmen's Bureau
c. Dawes Act
d. Native American Act
19.Wovoka, a prophet, claimed this would restore the Sioux to their greatness.
a. rituals
b. Ghost Dance
c. Sitting Bull
d. Dawes Act
20.This was NOT a legacy of the Populist Party that the government adopted.
a. abandon the gold standard
b. adopt an eight-hour workday
c. add a federal income tax
d. limit presidents to one term