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What was the purpose of a cattle drive?
Move cattle to a railroad terminal
What invention enabled farmers to fend their land on the treeless plains?
Barbed wire
Who was the leader of a band of Nez Perce Indians?
Chief Joseph
What territory did America purchase from Russia?
Alaska
What battle occurred at the end of the Indian Wars?
Wounded Knee
Which railroad company began work in Omaha, Nebraska and built westward?
Union Pacific
What term refers to sensationalized news reporting?
yellow journalism
What is yellow journalism?
Sensationalized news reporting
What act parceled out Indian tribal lands?
Dawes Act
What was the name of the antiforeign movement in China?
What area became the fiftieth state?
Hawaii
Which colonel lost his life at the Battle of Little Bighorn?
George Armstrong Custer
Who was the American commodore who negotiated a treaty with the Japanese?
Matthew Perry
What battle was an American victory over the Spanish fleet in the Pacific?
Battle of Manila Bay
What was significant about Promontory Point in Utah?
Junction of transcontinental railroad
What territory was settled by “land rushes”?
Oklahoma
What three factors contributed to the start of the Spanish-American war?
Yellow journalism, the de Lome letter, sinking of the USS Maine
Who were the Rough Riders?
Volunteer unit during the Spanish-American War
What was the subject of A Century of Dishonor?
Poor treatment of indigenous peoples in the US
Immigrants from which countries built the first transcontinental railroad in the US?
China and Ireland
What term means the extension of power by one people or country over another?
Imperialism
What was included in American foreign policy during the last half of the 1800s?
Defending the Western hemisphere against European intervention; extending US territory; creating new trading opportunities
Which territories did the US gain as a result of the Spanish-American War?
Guam, Philippines, Puerto Rico
What resulted from the French involvement in Mexico?
Mexico executed Maximilian I
Name three factors that ended the open-range cattle industry. (more than three potential answers)
Cattle overgrazed the land; cold winters killed lots of cattle; railroad expanded; cattlemen began fencing ranches; cattlemen began breeding smaller, meatier stocks