American Indians Under Pressure
Indians Under Pressure 2.0
The West Is Transformed
Corruption Plagues the Nation
Farm Issues and Populism
100

These include disease brought by white settlers, buffalo hers being destroyed

What were threats to Native Americans

100

In 1863 the government sent this famous frontiersman  to subdue the Navajos, who were fighting to protect their southwestern homeland.

Who was Kit Carson?

100

The arrival of the big mining companies highlighted an issue that would relentlessly plague the West

What is water and its uses?

100

practice of the political party in power giving jobs and appointments to its supporters, rather than to people based on their qualifications

What is the spoils system?

100

Farmers blamed these two industries for their economic problems

What are the railroads and banks?

200

This term means to be absorbed into main culture by society

What is assimilated?

200

a war chief and important spiritual leader who became the first-ever chief of all the Lakota Sioux bands in the 1860s.

Who was Sitting Bull?

200

rail link between the eastern and the western United States

What is the Transcontinental Railroad?

200

a political party’s organization that wins voter loyalty and guarantees power to a small group of leaders, who often abuse it for their own gain

What are political machines?

200

farmers’ organization formed after the Civil War

What was the Grange?

300

specific areas set aside by the government for the Indians’ use

What are reservations?

300

1876 battle in which the Sioux defeated U.S. Army troops

What was The Battle of Little Big Horn?

300

land designated by the federal government for building schools, roads, or railroads

What are land grants?

300

government departments and their non-elected employees

What is the civil service?

300

Government organization designed to oversee interstate commerce

What was the Interstate Commerce Commission?

400

1864 incident in which Colorado militia attacked a camp of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians, some of who were under U.S. Army protection

What is The Sand Creek Massacre?

400

This person was the leader of the Nez Perce tribe that lead his followers on an unsuccessful attempt to escape confinement on a reservation

Who was Chief Joseph?

400

Congress provided these things to encourage construction of the transcontinental railroad

What are loans and land grants?

400

1883 law that created a civil service system for the federal government in an attempt to hire employees on a merit system rather than on a spoils system

What is the Pendleton Civil Service Act?

400

network of farmers’ organizations that worked for political and economic reforms in the late 1800s

What was the Farmers Alliance?

500

This government agency, established in 1824, handled affairs between Native Americans and the government. 

What is The Bureau of Indian Affairs?

500

1890 confrontation between U.S. cavalry and Sioux that marked the end of Indian resistance

What was Wounded Knee?

500

method of ranching in which the rancher allowed his or her livestock to roam and graze over a vast area of grassland

What was the open-range system of cattle ranching?

500

This cartoonist used his work to attack government corruption under New York City’s William “Boss” Tweed

Who was Thomas Nast?

500

People’s Party; political party formed in 1891 to advocate a larger money supply and other economic reforms

What was the Populist Party?