The Frontier
Study Guide
SEE DUE DATES!
Chapter 13.1: Cultures Clash on the Prairie: to be read for Wednesday 2/2
Terms:
1. Great Plains
2. Treaty of Fort Laramie
3. Sitting Bull
4. George A. Custer
5. Assimilation
6. Dawes Act
7. Wounded Knee
8. Longhorn
9. Chisholm Trail
10. Long Drive
11. Chief Joseph
12. Geronimo
13. Crazy Horse
14. Bill Cody
15. Frederic Remington
Review Questions: TO BE ANSWERED FOR WEDNESDAY! TYPED ON A SEPARATE SHEET
By Table: ONE SHEET PER PERSON
Table 1: Questions 1 and 2
Table 2: Questions 3-5
Table 3: Questions 6-7
Table 4: Questions 8-9
Table 5: Questions 10-11
Table 6: Questions 12-13
1. What were the characteristics of Plains Indian culture?
2. How did it differ from white settlers?
3. Why the desire for settlers to push westward?
4. How did the government attempt to deal with the growing conflict between Native Americans and white settlers?
5. Why did the Black Hills become a contested territory between Native Americans and Whites?
6. What were the consequences of the defeat of Custer?
7. What was the Dawes Act and what goal did it seek to achieve?
8. Why was the destruction of the buffalo so detrimental to the Native American Way of life?
9. What were the causes and consequences of the battle of Wounded Knee?
10. How did the growth of railroads and cities impact the cattle business?
11. How did the ordinary cowboy’s life differ from the popular conception of it?
12. What was the long drive?
13. What factors brought an end to the open range?
Chapter 13.2: Settling on the Great Plains: Due on Friday 2/4
Terms:
1. Homestead Act
2. Exoduster
3. Soddy
4. Morril Act
5. Bonanza
Review Questions: TO BE ANSWERED FOR FRIDAY! TYPED ON A SEPARATE SHEET
By Table: ONE SHEET PER PERSON
Table 1: Questions 1
Table 2: Questions 2
Table 3: Questions 3
Table 4: Questions 4
Table 5: Questions 5
Table 6: Questions 6
1. How did the transcontinental railroad open up the West for settlement?
2. How did the federal government encourage Western settlement?
3. What steps did the government take to preserve the nations dwindling land space?
4. What forms of shelter did the plains settlers develop?
5. What technology did settlers rely on to help them tame the prairie?
6. What hardships did farmers face in the late 1800’s?
Chapter 13.3: Farmers and the Populist Movement due Monday 2/7
Terms:
1. Oliver Hudson Kelley
2. Grange
3. Farmers Alliance
4. Populism
5. L. Frank Baum
6. The Wizard of Oz
7. bimettalism
8. gold standard
9. Cross of gold speech
10. William McKinley
11. William Jennings Bryan
Review Questions: TO BE ANSWERED FOR MONDAY! TYPED ON A SEPARATE SHEET
By Table: ONE SHEET PER PERSON
Table 1: Questions 1 and 2
Table 2: Questions 3-5
Table 3: Questions 6-7
Table 4: Questions 8-9
Table 5: Questions 10-11
Table 6: Questions 12-13
1. What economic problems did many farmers face during the late 1800’s?
2. Why did farmers favor cheap money? Industry the opposite?
3. How did farmers try to address their problems and grievances?
4. What reforms did the Populist Party promote?
5. What were the causes and consequences of the panic of 1893?
6. Why did the Populist movement collapse?
Optional Enrichment: PLEASE ASK ME FOR ONE OF THE OPTIONS IF INTERESTED
· Sitting Bull and the Sioux Resistance
· The Populist Protest
o Both reading assignments with questions.