Westward Expansion
Populists
Native Americans
The New South
Bonus
100
the 19th-century movement of settlers into the American West, began with the Louisiana Purchase and was fueled by the Gold Rush, the Oregon Trail, and a belief in "manifest destiny.
What is Westward Expansion?
100
What was the lasting impact of the populist party?
The expansion of democracy
100
What was the purpose of the Dawes Act?
assimilation of Native Americans
100
taking away the right to vote
What is disenfranchisement?
100
2 farmers get more attention from the federal government than __ farmer
1
200
Manifest Destiny
200
the Supreme Court ruled in 1886 that only the federal government could regulate interstate commerce, leading to the creation of the Interstate Commerce Commission.
What is Wabash v. Illinois?
200
What was the Native American's main source of survival?
the buffalo
200
1896 Supreme Court decision allowing for “separate but equal” facilities
Plessy v. Fergeson
200
the 15th amendment is
the right to vote (for all men)
300
the 19th-century doctrine or belief that white Americans were destined to spread Westward
what is Manifest Destiny?
300
Which amendment allows US citizens to directly elect their senators?
the 17th amendment
300
Native American tribes were split up as a result of what?
the dawes act
300
voting tax used to keep black people from voting
What is a Poll Tax?
300
Factors contributing to settlement of the West.
New Markets, Inexpensive farmland, gold in California.
400
How did the invention of barbed wire transform the economy?
by ending the necessity of cattle drives
400
This image promotes what?
bimetallism (incorporating more silver into the national money supply)
400
What immigrant group worked on the railroad in the West?
Chinese
400
a loophole in which allowed plantation owners to financially benefit from "legal slavery"
sharecropping
400
when is Ms. Binder's birthday?
August 5th (yesterday)
500
Name the two main economies in the New Western states.
Mining and cattle ranching
500
What entity did the Populist (Grange) party want to regulate the railroads?
the federal government
500
Indian tribe led by Chief Joseph; ordered onto a reservation in Idaho in 1877, they fled instead; after giving up they were removed to a reservation in Oklahoma
What is Nez Perce?
500
Jim Crow law stating that voting is only allowed to those whose grandfather's voted?
The Grandfather Clause
500
name two of ms. newton's pets
Echo, Lil Man, Arlo, Mouse, Blitz, Sticky or YoungBoy (Kentrell)
600
People traveled to California because of....
the Gold Rush
600
What is Ms. Tosto's ethnicity?
farmer
600
what government act provided 160+ acres of western land to anyone who would agree to farm it for 5 years?
the homestead act
600
the 13th amendment
abolished slavery
600
who advocated for the 16th amendment and what was it?
Populists, a graduated income tax