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