CHAPTER 26: THE GREAT WEST AND THE AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION
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The Clash of Cultures on the Plain
Know: Indian Territory, Sioux, Great Sioux Reservation, Tenth Cavalry
1. Describe the effect of westward expansion on Native Americans.
Receding Native Americans
Know: George Armstrong Custer, Bozeman Trail, Sitting Bull, Battle of Little Big Horn, Chief Joseph,
Geronimo
2.
How was the West "won?"
Bellowing Herds of Bison
Know: Buffalo Bill Cody
3.
How were the Buffalo reduced from 15 million to less than a thousand?
The End of the Trail
Know: Helen Hunt Jackson, Ghost Dance, Battle of Wounded Knee, Dawes Act, Carlisle Indian School,
Indian Reorganization Act
4.
What did the government do to try to assimilate Native Americans?
Mining: From Dishpan to Ore Breaker
Know: Pike's Peak, Comstock Lode, Silver Senators
5.
How did the discovery of precious metals affect the American West?
Makers of America: The Plains Indians
6.
How was the cu1lture of the Plains Indians shaped by white people?
Beef Bonanzas and the Long Drive
Know: Long Drive, Wild Bill Hickok
7.
Why was cattle ranching so profitable in the 1870's?
The Farmers’ Frontier
Know: Homestead Act, Great American Desert, John Wesley Powell, Joseph F. Glidden
8.
Did the Homestead Act live up to its purpose of giving small farmers a descent life on the plains?
The Far West Comes of Age
Know: Boomers, Sooners, 1890, Frederick Jackson Turner, Yellowstone
9.
What were some milestones in the “closing” of the West?
The Fading Frontier
Know: Francis Parkman, George Catlin, Frederic Remington
10.
What effects has the frontier had on the development of the United States?
The Farm Becomes a Factory
Know: Montgomery Ward, Combine
11.
Explain the statement, "The amazing mechanization of agriculture in the postwar years was almost
as striking as the mechanization of industry."
Deflation Dooms the Debtor
Know: Deflation
12.
What problems faced farmers in the closing decades of the 19th century?
Unhappy Farmers
13.
How did nature, government, and business all harm farmers?
The Farmers Take Their Stand
Know: The Grange, Cooperatives, Greenback-Labor Party, James B. Weaver
14.
How did the Grange attempt to help farmers?
Prelude to Populism
Know: The Farmers’ Alliance, Mary Elizabeth Lease
15.
What steps did the Farmers’ Alliance believe would help farmers?
Coxey’s Army and the Pullman Strike
Know: Coxey’s Army, Eugene V. Debs, Pullman Palace Car Company
16.
Why did President Cleveland send in federal troops during the Pullman Strike?
Golden McKinley and Sliver Bryan
Know: Mark Hannah, William McKinley, William Jennings Bryan, Cross of Gold speech
17.
Was William McKinley a strong presidential candidate? Explain.
Class Conflict: Plowholders versus Bondholders
Know: Fourth Party System
18.
“The free-silver election of 1896 was probably the most significant since Lincoln’s victories in 1860
and 1864.” Explain.
Republican Standpattism Enthroned
Know: Dingley Tariff Bill
19.
Did McKinley possess the characteristics necessary to be an effective president?
Varying Viewpoints: Was the West Really “Won”?
Know: Frederick Jackson Turner
20.
Which criticism of the Turner Thesis seems most valid? Explain.