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Ch. 26(Pageant)
Ch. 17 (AMSCO) The Great West &The Agricultural Revolution
Use your Pageant text to answer the following study questions. While AMSCO will give you a good overview, the details will be slim and insufficient to prepare a good response to these study questions.
Settlement of the Great West
1.What was unique about the settlement of the Great West?
2.Describe the environmental transformation of the West in the 1800s.
The Plains Indians
3.Describe the Plains Indian cultures as a whole. Be certain to include examples of the specific tribes.
4.What factors undermined the Plains Indian culture?
5.Describe the change over time in the policies of the federal government with regard tothe Plains Indians:
a)in the 1830s:
b)in the 1850s:
c)in the 1860s:
6.What groups made up the Indian fighters in the Plains Indian Wars?
7.Fully describe these significant events in the Indian Wars:
a)Sand Creek Massacre – 1864
b)Gold discovered in the Black Hills of Dakota – 1874
c)Battle of Little Big Horn – 1876
8.How were the following eventually subdued?
a)Chief Joseph & the Nez Perce
b)Apache in the Southwest
9.Explain how the following factors contributed to the demise of the PlainsIndians’ way of life:
a)Railroad
b)Disease
c)Extermination of the buffalo
10.“Civilizing the Indians”
a) What author helped elicit sympathy for the Indians? With what works?
b)What was the mission of the Carlisle Indian School of Pennsylvania?
11.Describe the Battle at Wounded Knee- the last major battle of the Plains Wars- in 1890.
12.Explain the purpose and provisions of the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887. Why was it
unsuccessful?
13.What will eventually happen in the government’s Indian policy by 1934?
Mining in the Old West
14.Identify the new mining discoveries & their location that encouraged Western
migration.
15.Describe life in a typical mining town.
16.What role did mining play in subduing the frontier?
Ranching in the Old West
17.How many “mavericks” [unbranded cattle] roamed on the Great Plains in 1865?
What problem did the railroad solve for the cattle business?
18.Describe the Long Drive – include its purpose, its workers, its extent, the difficulties
faced, favorite terminuses, the reasons for its demise, etc.
19.How did the railroad “make and unmake” the Long Drive?
Farming on the Great Plains
20.Describe the Homestead Act of 1862 – its purpose and provisions. Under which President?
21.What were the difficulties with the Homestead Act? Why did it not work out as
planned?
22.Identify the new technology (and its inventors) that helped “sodbusters” settle and farm
the Great Plains.
23.How did Great Plains farming techniques in the late 1800s help lead to the Dust Bowl in
the 1930s?
24.Describe how American farming changed by the late 1800s.
25.Describe environmental disasters facing farmers on the Great Plains
26.Describe the new economic problems that faced farmers in the late 1800s.
The Vanishing Frontier
27.What new states entered the U.S. in the late 1800s?
28.Describe the 1899 Oklahoma Land Rush. Be sure to include who the “sooners” and the
“boomers” were.
29.a)What was announced by the U.S. government in 1890?
b)Explain Frederick Jackson Turner’s “frontier thesis.”
Minority Experience on the Frontier
30.Describe the cause, the terms of the act, and the significance and impact of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.
31.Describe the Mexican experience on the frontier.
32.Describe the African American experience on the frontier. Include a description of the Exodusters.