Western Expansion1
Western Expansion2
Grange Movement
Populism
100
What is Manifest Destiny
The belief that America was destined to Expand to the West because it was determined by GOD
100
How did Farmers benefit from the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad?
They could ship their goods to the East and sell them for profit.
100
__________ movement was started by Farmers who wanted to combat natural disasters, poor economy, and rural isolation?
The Grange Movement
100
What two groups of workers made up the Populist Party?
The people” (Farmers and regular laborers or citizens)
200
What were the 3 groups of Settlement Patterns and what were their conflicts? Extra 100 points for the team that can tell me what technology they had to develop to protect their property.
Miners vs. Miners: Gold and Silver
Settlers v. Natives: Land
Farmers v. Ranchers: Over Land and they blocked each other with Barbed Wire.
200
What created tensions and fights between the Native American and American Settlers?
Land, Broken treaties and Promises
200
What 2 causes lead to a decrease in food prices and farmers income? Extra credit for a 3rd one 100 pts.
Overproduction and Scarcity of Money
Paying Middlemen/ High Shipping Costs
200
What is being represented in this political cartoon?
What is the Cross of Gold Speech
300
Dry Farming Techniques
Barbed Wire Fences/Homes made out of Sod
Burned Cow and Buffalo Chips for Fuel
Windmill Pumped Water
Steel Plow used for tough Soil
Techniques and Technology farmers used to adapt to the West/ Great Plains
300
“The Faithful performance of our promises is the first condition of a good understanding with the Indians. Especial care is recommended to provide for Indians settled on their reservations cattle and agricultural implements, to aid them in whatever efforts they may make to support themselves, and by the establishment and maintenance of schools to bring them under the control of civilized influences.”
- President Rutherford B. Hayes, 1878
Choose the correct answer below:
a. To have good understanding or communication with the Native Americans
b. To Aid Native Americans
c. To Civilize or Assimilate them by building schools.
d. All of the above
300
What kind of Laws did the Grange Movement (Farmers) Create to fight against high railroad shipping costs and control storage grain prices?
Granger Laws
300
Want kind of coinage did the Populists want?
A. Gold Standard
B. Silver Standard
C. Gold and Silver "Bimetallism"
D. None of the above
What is C Gold and Silver "Bimetallism"
400
While American Federal Indians turned rich, what was the experience of most Native Americans?
Poor, Starving, and were often forced to live on Reservation Lands.
400
“Buffalo hunters have done more in the last two years, and will do more in the next year, to settle the…Indian question than the entire regular army has done in the last thirty years…for the sake of peace let them kill, skin, and sell until the buffalo are destroyed.”
- General Philip Sherman, c.1872
What is the effect being reflected above?
a. Give me the name of the population?
b. The effect it had?
c. What was the strategy behind it?
What is the effect being reflected above?
a. Give me the name of the population? Buffalo
b. The effect it had? Population of the Buffalo Declined
c. What was the strategy behind it? Killing the Buffalo made it easier for Americans to drive Native Americans to reservation land
400
___________ _________ _________ affected Farmers ability to continue to selling goods from East to West. Leading to Lower income, and making the issue of overproduction worse.
High Shipping Fees/High Ticket Costs
400
What kind of ideas did Populists came up on the Omaha Platform?
Secret ballot, Initiatives and Recalls, Direct Election of Senators, etc.
500
Safety Valve for Unhappy Workers
Discovery of Gold in California, Colorado, Nevada and Dakotas
Construction of the Transcontinental Railroad
Advertisement promising superior farming
Passage of the Homestead Act (160 acres of land)
Were all pull factors that helped expand to the WEST.
500
What are some examples of Push factors (things that Push you out of your city or State?) (250 pts)
What directly caused Boom towns? (250 pts)
What are some examples of Push factors (things that Push you out of your city or State?) (250 pts). Religious Prosecution, Overcrowded, Expensive, Lack of Opportunity.
What directly caused Boom towns? (250 pts)The discovery of Gold and Silver
500
Provide 2-3 examples of things Farmers took out loans on, and what effect it had on their economy.
Buy Land
Land Improvement
Buy Machinery/ Survive
Effect: They were constantly in Debt
500
What Act did the Munn vs. Illinois and Wabash v. Illinois lead to ?
What is Interstate Commerce Act?