Study Guide – Westward Expansion
Clashes on the Prairie
Sand Creek Massacre
Native American reservations
assimilation
Wounded Knee
reservations
buffalo
Native American Way of Life –
in general
Dawes General Allotment Act
syncretism
acculturation
Battle of Little Big Horn
Diseases contracted from other
cultural groups
Manifest Destiny
Westward Expansion
homesteaders
Agriculture in the post-Civil War
South
Open-range system
Cost of railroad construction in
the South
Morrill Act
Exodusters
Transcontinental railroads
Boll weevil
Laissez-faire
Gold & silver rush
Government regulations on the
railroads
Way of life
Soddy
Homesteader’s Act
Steel plow
Slow economic recovery in the
South after Civil War
Women’s roles
Single crop system
Populism
Grange
Populist Platform
Bi-metalism
Democratic Party
William McKinley
Farmer’s Alliance
Populist Party/People’s Party
Gold Standard
Greenbacks
William Jennings Bryan
Republican Party
National Park System
Extended response will be a choice from 3 questions – one based on each section. Be prepared to
answer your essay with examples and explanations!
Mrs. Noren – American History