A Growing Nation
Why was the Louisiana Purchase important to the growth of the US?
What is it roughly doubled the size of the US?
Which of the following characterized the boomtowns of the West?
Sudden Growth
This battle against Sioux forces was the worst defeat of the US Army on the Great Plains.
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
What was the goal of the Free Silver Movement?
What is to back paper currency/money with silver?
What was the main reason people were traveling on the Mormon Trail?
What is to find religious freedom in an isolated location?
How did the buffalo influence Native American life on the Great Plains?
It provided for their basic needs.
The mining boom began with the discovering of what?
Comstock Lode
What event is considered the last major incident between the U.S. Army and Native Americans on the Great Plain?
What is the Massacre at Wounded Knee?
What is more farms and greater productivity led to overproduction and lower prices. Plus expensive shipping.
The Partons of Husbandry- a social and educational organization through which farmers attempted to combat the power of the railroads in the late 19th Century.
Grange
Name two basic needs that the buffalo provided for Native Americans.
1. Teepees out of buffalo hide
2. Clothing, shoes, blankets
3. Meat
Who used the Chisholm Trail, and why?
Cowboys, to drive cattle.
According to the Homestead Act, in order to be granted full ownership, homesteaders had to...
What is make improvements to the land and stay for 5 years?
Why did the frontier cease to exist after the 1890’s?
What is all of the areas in the west had by this time been settled, and the census declared it closed?
Groups of farmers, or those in sympathy with farming issues, who sent lectures from town to town to educate people about agricultural and rural issues.
Farmers' Alliances
A plan under which Native Americans would give up their beliefs and way of life and become part of the white culture.
Assimilation
Name the two different immigrant groups that worked on the transcendental railroad?
Who are the Irish and the Chinese?
An African American who migrated from the South to Kansas in the post-Revolutionary years.
What is an Exoduster?
What was one of the goals of the Populist Party?
What is the government ownership of communications and railroads, direct election of Senators, a shorter workweek, and free silver?
The political movement demanded the people have a greater voice in government and seek to advance the interests of farmers and laborers.
Populism
What was the main route for settlers heading West through the Appalachians?
What is the Wilderness Road?
Name 2 difficulties miners faced.
1. Collapsing tunnels
2. Extreme temperatures
3. Explosions
4. Expensive equipment
Laws were enacted to help create agricultural colleges by giving federal land to states.
What is the Morrill Act?
A social and educational organization for famers.
What is the Grange?
The term a sustained decrease in the price of goods and services, leading to decreased demand.
What is deflation?