Vocab!
Native Americans/Other
Westward Expansion
Populism/Farmers
Movie/Tv Show Quotes
100
Farmers joined the Granger movement primarily to:
A. Support women’s suffrage
B. Promote education and regulate railroads
C. Encourage westward migration
D. Expand gold mining
B. Promote education and regulate railroads
100
This ritual used by NA was suppose to bring back the buffalo, stop white settlers from expanding and bring back NA land.
Ghost Dance
100
African Americans who moved west after the Civil War seeking new opportunities were called __________.
AND
What are other reason(s) why they moved?
Exodusters
Rasicim, discrimination, black codes, jim crow laws
100
Which immigrants worked on building the transcontiental railroad from California to Utah?
AND!
Why Utah?
Chinese
The Central Pacific Railway and Union Pacific Railway met in Promontory, Utah. This completed the Transcontinental Railway.
100
"Why so serious?"
The Dark Knight
200
Which federal law encouraged westward migration by offering free plots of land to settlers willing to live there for five years and improve it?
Homestead Act
200
This organization promised business contracts, government jobs, and money for the poor immigrants in exchange for votes. This is a form of corruption.
Political Machines
200
This invention helped end open range ranching
AND
What were the cowboys in America based off of?
**DAILY DOUBLE**
Barbed Wire
Vaqueros
**DAILY DOUBLE**
200
Why did many farmers blame railroads and banks for their economic problems in the late 1800s?
-Railroads set high freight rates
- banks charged high interest
-lack of government support.
200
"There's no place like home"
Wizard of Oz
300
The idea that God intended the U.S. to expand across the North American continent was called...
Manifest Destiny
300
What was the historical significance of the Massacre of Wounded Knee in 1890?
It ended the major armed conflicts between the U.S. Army and Native Americans.
300
Which powerful political boss, known for his corruption in Gilded Age New York, was relentlessly targeted by Thomas Nast's cartoons, ultimately contributing to his downfall?
AND
Why him? What was he known for?
Boss Tweed
Political Machine/Corruption
300
This is what established the United States Civil Service Commission which ended the spoils system and put federal employees on the qualification system through exams..
Pendleton Act of 1883
300
"Could I BE wearing any more clothes?" – Chandler Bing
Friends
400
This battle was the last major victory for the Native Americans. This was led by Sitting Bull and Crazy horse. This included 2,000 NA attacking the 7th Calvary/Custer.
Battle of Little Bighorn
400
Which financial policy would a wealthy factory owner have been MOST LIKELY to support in the late 1800s?
- A. the Gold Standard
- B. the Monroe Doctrine
- C. the Redeemer movement
- D. the Free Silver movement
- A. the Gold Standard
400
This is a political cartoon about what federal law on immigration?
AND WHY DID WE NOT LIKE THEM?
**DAILY DOUBLE**
Chinese Exclusion Act
**DAILY DOUBLE**
400
This political cartoon was about which person?_____________ and his support to add ___________________ to the economy.
William Jennings Bryan and Silver/Bimetalism
400
"It's gonna be legen—wait for it—dary!" – Barney Stinson
How I met your mother
500
To divide Native American tribal land into individual family plots in order to encourage assimilation was called????
AND
What were NA children sent to become assimilated?How?
1. Dawes Act
2. Indian Boarding Schools and they had to change their name, cut their hair, dress like Americans and speak English.
500
Identify TWO reasons why farmers lost their land?
AND
What happened to most farmers when they lost their land? (HINT: What did they become?)
- Increasing debt, falling prices, natural disasters, high intrest rates, high transport costs
AND
Tenant farmers
500
1. How did the government help railroad companies with expanding west?
AND
2. Identify TWO reasons why people moved west
1. Land Grants
2. $$$, get away from racial discrimination, transcontinental railroad, Manifest destiney, more opportunities, gold rush...
500
Who made up the Populist Party?
AND
Identify TWO major goals of the Populist party?
Farmers and laborers
AND
- Womens suffrage
- Regulations on Railraods
- Free silver/Flexible Money
- Graduated income tax
500
"Winter is coming."
Game of Thrones