APUSH: Chapter 17 Identifications & Short Essay Questions

Identifications: Make sure that you are familiar with the following terms for class discussion, quizzes, and the unit essay test. You are expected to write out definitions.

“Buffalo Bill” Cody/buffalo slaughter

Sand Creek Massacre

Battle of Little Bighorn/Custer’s Last Stand/Red Cloud/Sitting Bull

Helen Hunt Jackson/A Century of Dishonor

Dawes Severalty Act

Ghost Dance/Wounded Knee

Pacific Railroad Act/Transcontinental Railroad

Homestead Act/homesteaders

Comstock Lode/Klondike gold rush

Joseph McCoy/Chisholm Trail/cowboys

Bonanza farms/Oklahoma land rush

Theodore Roosevelt’s The Winning of the West

Owen Wister’s The Virginian

Conservation/Yellowstone National Park/John Muir/Sierra Club

Short Essay Questions (due at the start of class Friday, February 4th) (Complete two out of the three options.)

  1. How was Native American life transformed in the second half of the 19th century? Was this transformation inevitable? Why or why not? Consider the impact of U.S. government policy on the lives of Native Americans.
  1. What role did railroads, homesteaders, miners, and cowboys play in the settlement of the West and the closing of the American frontier?
  1. How and why did conservation emerge as a major concern in America in the late 1800s?

APUSH: Chapter 17 Identifications & Short Essay Questions

Identifications: Make sure that you are familiar with the following terms for class discussion, quizzes, and the unit essay test. You are expected to write out definitions.

“Buffalo Bill” Cody/buffalo slaughter

Sand Creek Massacre

Battle of Little Bighorn/Custer’s Last Stand/Red Cloud/Sitting Bull

Helen Hunt Jackson/A Century of Dishonor

Dawes Severalty Act

Ghost Dance/Wounded Knee

Pacific Railroad Act/Transcontinental Railroad

Homestead Act/homesteaders

Comstock Lode/Klondike gold rush

Joseph McCoy/Chisholm Trail/cowboys

Bonanza farms/Oklahoma land rush

Theodore Roosevelt’s The Winning of the West

Owen Wister’s The Virginian

Conservation/Yellowstone National Park/John Muir/Sierra Club

Short Essay Questions (due at the start of class Friday, February 4th) (Complete two out of the three options.)

  1. How was Native American life transformed in the second half of the 19th century? Was this transformation inevitable? Why or why not? Consider the impact of U.S. government policy on the lives of Native Americans.
  1. What role did railroads, homesteaders, miners, and cowboys play in the settlement of the West and the closing of the American frontier?
  1. How and why did conservation emerge as a major concern in America in the late 1800s?