The American West
This vast, flat region of North America was home to many Native American tribes.
What are the Great Plains?
A famous Sioux leader who was killed at the Battle of Wounded Knee.
A political party that emerged in the late 19th century to represent the interests of farmers and laborers.
What is the Populist Party?
The people who raised and transported cattle across the Great Plains.
Who are Ranchers?
A massacre that occurred in Colorado in 1864, targeting a peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho village.
What is the Sand Creek Massacre?
Areas of land set aside for Native Americans to live on.
What are reservations?
The presidential candidate who championed the cause of bimetallism and gained the support of the Populists in the 1896 election.
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
The state where gold was discovered in the West in 1849.
California
A treaty signed in 1868 that promised Native Americans control over certain lands in the West.
A decisive battle fought in 1876 between the Sioux and Cheyenne and U.S. forces that ended in Native American victory by killing all of the American troops who fought.
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
A law that divided Native American reservations into individual plots of land to teach Native Americans about private property.
What is the Dawes Act?
African Americans who moved west to escape racial prejudice in the South.
What are Exodusters?
The U.S. Army general who led the American troops at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
Who is General Custer?
The last major conflict between Native Americans and U.S. troops that ended in the massacre of 300 Native Americans.
What is the Wounded Knee Massacre?
The belief that westward expansion was inevitable and necessary because it was destined by God.
What is Manifest Destiny?
A law that granted 160 acres of land to any U.S. citizen who settled on it for five years.
What is the Homestead Act?
A famous Lakota Sioux warrior who fought against U.S. forces.
Who is Crazy Horse?
The process of forcing Native Americans to adopt American culture and customs.
What is Americanization/Assimilation?
Name at least three demands that farmers had for the government during this time period.
What is regulating the railroad, making cash more available, single term for president/vice president, secret ballot, popular election of Senators, 8-hour workday, or restricting immigration?
Name one of the challenges farmers faced in the West during this unit.
What are falling crop prices, rising debt, and outrageous railroad charges to ship goods?