Deck 26: The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution, 1865-1896

Question 1

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Sitting Bull

Answer 1

Student answers will vary.

Question 2

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Ignatius Donnelley

Answer 2

Student answers will vary.

Question 3

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
George A. Custer

Answer 3

Student answers will vary.

Question 4

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
William Hope Harvey

Question 5

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Chief Joseph

Question 6

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
John Wesley Powell

Question 7

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
William J. Fetterman

Question 8

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Jacob S. Coxey

Question 9

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Mary Elizabeth Lease

Question 10

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
William F. Cody

Question 11

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Eugene V. Debs

Question 12

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
James B. Weaver

Question 13

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Oliver H. Kelley

Question 14

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
John Peter Altgeld

Question 15

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Geronimo

Question 16

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
William McKinley

Question 17

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
J. M. Chivington

Question 18

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
James B. Hickok

Question 19

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Frederick Jackson Turner

Question 20

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Helen Hunt Jackson

Question 21

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Cheyenne

Question 22

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Long Drive

Question 23

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Arapahoes

Question 24

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Treaty of Fort Laramie

Question 25

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​reservation system

Question 26

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Ghost Dance

Question 27

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Dawes Severalty Act

Question 28

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
A Century of Dishonor

Question 29

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
William Jennings Bryan

Question 30

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Sioux

Question 31

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Marcus Alonzo Hanna

Question 32

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Comstock Lode

Question 33

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​mining industry

Question 34

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Fetterman massacre

Question 35

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Sand Creek, Colorado

Question 36

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Comanches

Question 37

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Battle of Little Bighorn

Question 38

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Battle of Wounded Knee

Question 39

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Apaches

Question 40

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Nez Percé

Question 41

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
safety-valve theory

Question 42

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Farmers' Alliance

Question 43

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Bonanza farms

Question 44

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Yellowstone

Question 45

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Pullman Strike

Question 46

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"16 to 1"

Question 47

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Sooner State

Question 48

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Coin's Financial School

Question 49

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"fourth party system"

Question 50

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Populist (People's) Party

Question 51

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Dodge City, Kansas

Question 52

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Granger Laws

Question 53

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Homestead Act

Question 54

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Colored Farmers National Alliance

Question 55

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry

Question 56

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Haymarket Square anarchists

Question 57

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Coxey's Army

Question 58

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Cross of Gold speech

Question 59

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"Gold Bugs"

Question 60

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​mechanization of agriculture

Question 61

The Plains Indians were finally forced to surrender and end their resistance to losing their lands

A)because they were decimated by their constant intertribal warfare.
B)when they realized that agriculture was more profitable than hunting.
C)after such famous leaders as Geronimo and Sitting Bull were killed.
D)when the government extended a better offer to relocate the Plains Indians to unoccupied, large Western lands.
E)by the coming of the railroads and the virtual extermination of the buffalo.

Question 62

A new round of warfare between the Sioux and U.S. Army began in 1874 when

A)the U.S.Army decided to retaliate for the Fetterman massacre.
B)Sioux Chief Crazy Horse began an effort to drive all whites from Montana and the Dakotas.
C)Colonel George Custer led an expedition to Little Big Horn, Montana.
D)Colonel George Custer discovered gold on Sioux land in the Black Hills.
E)the federal government announced that it was opening all Sioux lands to settlement.

Question 63

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Dingley Tariff bill

Question 64

The Indians battled whites for all the following reasons except to

A)rescue their families who had been exiled to Oklahoma.
B)avenge savage massacres of Indians by whites.
C)punish whites for breaking treaties.
D)defend their lands against white invaders.
E)preserve their nomadic way of life against forced settlement.

Question 65

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Gold Standard Act

Question 66

The nineteenth-century humanitarians who advocated kind treatment of the Indians

A)had no more respect for traditional Indian culture than those who sought to exterminate them.
B)advocated improving the reservation system.
C)opposed passage of the Dawes Act.
D)understood the value of the Indians' religious and cultural practices.
E)None of these choices are correct.

Question 67

The Dawes Severalty Act was designed to promote Indian

A)prosperity.
B)annihilation.
C)assimilation.
D)culture.
E)education.

Question 68

To assimilate Indians into American society, the Dawes Act did all of the following except

A)dissolve many tribes as legal entities.
B)try to make rugged individualists of the Indians.
C)wipe out tribal ownership of land.
D)promise Indians U.S.citizenship in twenty-five years.
E)expand recognized tribes' collective land ownership holdings.

Question 69

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​fourth party system

Question 70

In post-Civil War America, Plains Indians surrendered their lands only when they

A)chose to migrate farther west.
B)received solemn promises from the government that they would be left alone and provided with supplies on the remaining land.
C)lost their mobility as the whites killed their horses.
D)were allowed to control the supply of food and other staples to the reservations.
E)were defeated militarily by the U.S.Army in various Indian wars.

Question 71

Helen Hunt Jackson's novel, Ramona, was centered around

A)the cruel mistreatment of Indians in California.
B)the cheating of Indians by federal agents on the reservations.
C)the efforts of Christian reformers to prevent the killing of Indians.
D)an Indian girl's attempt to retain her culture in an Indian boarding school.
E)the last Indian wars between the U.S.army and the Apaches in the Southwest.

Question 72

The Nez Percé Indians of Idaho were goaded into war when

A)the Sioux began to migrate onto their land.
B)gold was discovered on their reservation.
C)the federal government attempted to force them onto a reservation.
D)the Canadian government attempted to force their return to the United States.
E)the U.S.government reneged on a treaty agreement to permit the Nez Perce to keep their native lands.

Question 73

All of the following are true statements about Indians who ended up on reservations in the 1870s and 1880s except

A)they were fed meagerly by the U.S.government and not annihilated by the U.S.Army.
B)they were forced to eke out an existence.
C)they became wards of the U.S.government.
D)they felt protected and well-provided for by the U.S.government.
E)many died from diseases.

Question 74

A Century of Dishonor (1881), which chronicled the dismal history of Indian-white relations, was authored by

A)Harriet Beecher Stowe.
B)Helen Hunt Jackson.
C)Chief Joseph.
D)Joseph F.Glidden.
E)Chief Black Elk of the Ogala Sioux.

Question 75

The Buffalo Soldiers were

A)U.S.Army units who survived on the plains by killing buffalo.
B)African American cavalry and soldiers who served in the frontier wars.
C)soldiers who sought to defeat the Indians by depriving them of their primary food supply.
D)soldiers who were killed in the Fetterman massacre.
E)soldiers who were court martialed for assisting Plains Indians with food and other provisions.

Question 76

The United States government's outlawing of the Indian Sun (Ghost) Dance in 1890 resulted in the

A)Battle of Wounded Knee.
B)Sand Creek massacre.
C)Battle of Little Big Horn.
D)Dawes Severalty Act.
E)Indian Reorganization Act.

Question 77

For white American treaty makers, Indian tribes were

A)revered as having the authority to organize and lead scattered Native Americans.
B)considered as an appropriate and efficient way to organize Native American scattered over thousands of miles.
C)a fiction of the white imagination.
D)a better alternative to the scattered bands that they had had in the past.
E)None of these choices are correct.

Question 78

The buffalo were nearly exterminated

A)as a result of being overhunted by the Indians.
B)when their grasslands were turned into wheat and corn fields.
C)when their meat became valued in eastern markets.
D)by disease.
E)through wholesale butchery by whites.

Question 79

In the warfare that raged between the Indians and the American military after the Civil War,

A)the Indians were never as well armed as the soldiers.
B)the U.S.army was able to dominate with its superior technology.
C)there was often great cruelty and massacres on both sides.
D)Indians proved to be no match for the soldiers.
E)Indians and soldiers seldom came into face-to-face combat.

Question 80

As a result of the Battle of Little Bighorn

A)the government sent extensive military reinforcements to the Dakotas and Montana.
B)the government signed another Treaty of Fort Laramie in 1868, abandoning the Bozeman Trail and guaranteeing the Sioux their lands.
C)the government adopted a policy of civilizing the Indians rather than trying to conquer them.
D)white settlers agreed to halt their expansion beyond the 100^th meridian.
E)the conflict between the U.S.army and the Sioux came to a peaceful end.