Chapter 18 Honors History 1 Ehrets

Who made the first claim on thee homestead act?

Daniel Freeman

Who wrote A Century of Dishonor?

Helen Hunt Jackson

What were the 5 civilized tribes?

Creeks, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Seminoles

Who invested in the richest vein of silver in America?

George Hearst

Who helped African Americans establish new lives in Kansas?

Benjamin Singleton

Who spread the Ghost Dance?

Wovoka

Who embarked on an anti-lynching campaign and received death threats for it?

Ida B. Wells

Who did the African Americans refer to as "black moses"

Benjamin Singleton

What two people founded Miller & Lux?

Henry Miller and Charles Lux

Who introduced the longhorn cattle?

Spainards

Who wrote the book progress and poverty?

Henry George

Who led the Sand Creek massacre?

Colonel John Chivington

What were laws passed by southern states mandating racial segregation in public settings.

Jim Crow laws

Who sat in a white train car and refused to give up his seat?

Homer Plessy

What massacre did the ghost dance result in?

Wounded Knee Massacre

Who was the first black man to graduate Harvard with a PHd?

W.E.B. Du Bois

Which of the "big 4" has an Ivy league named after him?

Leland Standford

Who was the founder of Tuskegee Institute?

Booker T. Washington

What is a name for someone who lives somewhere illegally?

squatters

Who got wiped out along with his 225 men in the battle of little bighorn?

George A. Custer

What is another name for the "Sioux"?

Lakota/Dakota

What does the "Sioux" mean?

little snake

What is the difference between slavery and sharecropping?

basically just the name

What year was gold discovered near pikes peak?

1858

What year was the golden spike put into place?

1869

What year was the Dawes Servility act?

1887

What year did sitting bull die?

1890

When was the battle of little bighorn?

June 25, 1876

What year was the California gold rush?

1848-1849

What year was the Sand Creek Massacre?

1864

What year did Garfield die?

1881

What year was the Plessy v. Ferguson case?

1896

What year was the Johnson County war is Wyoming?

1892

What year was Progress and Poverty published?

1879

What date were 38 Dakota Sioux hung?

December 28th,1862

What year was the Missouri Compromise?

1820

What year was the foreigner miner tax?

1850

What year was the homestead act passed?

1862

What year was the Wounded Knee Massacre?

1890

What year was a century of dishonor published?

1881

What year was the Louisiana Purchase?

1803

What year was the Central Pacific railroad bill passed?

1862

What year was the treaty of traverse de Sioux?

1851

What year did 20,000 African Americans begin an exodus to Kansas?

1879

The fencing of the open range resulted in

the end of the long cattle drives

The act passed by Congress during Lincoln's admin which provided white Americans with 160 acres of land for 5 years

The Homestead Act

The 1862 Pacific Railroad Bill provided?

Large loans and generous subsides of land to two railroad companies

Where did the transcontinental railroad connect?

Promontory Point, Utah

What happened when the Chinese came to work on the Railroad?

They worked on the Central Pacific, they were discriminated against by the Chinese Exclusion Act, and nearly 1,000 died using dynamite

As a result of their hard labor in the west, women in western states demanded and recieved...

Suffarge

What happened in the Sand Creek Massacre?

Led by Colonel John Chivington's, over a hundred Indian women and children were killed while most of the Indian men were out hunting

What industry brought the first wave of white settlers and immigrants to the Indigenous West?

mining

When Prospector Henry Comstock staked a claim he found...

silver ore

The Lakota Sioux fought to keep control of their...

hunting grounds

What was a hardship that early settlers on the great plains faced?

dry and arid climates

Native Americans who roamed vast distances were considered

nomads

Corporations used ___________ to fins mineral deposits that lay in the mountain ranges

hydraulic mining

At the Battle of little bighorn, approximately how many soldiers did General George Custard bring with him?

200

At first, ranchers saw barbed wire as a threat because it

kept their herds from roaming freely

Defying the orders of the government agent at the reservation, the Lakota continued to perform a ritual called the

Ghost Dance

To enforce law and order, many boomtowns formed

vigilance committees

George Custer attacked a large group of Lakota and Cheyenne warriors at

the Little Bighorn river

Eventually and after considerable loss of life, the open range was largely fenced off with

Barbed wire

The Homestead Act allowed Whites invading the indigenous west

to receive 160 acres of land for free after living on it for 5 years

The Great Plains extend westward ton the

Rocky Mountains

A serious toll was taken on Native Americans from the advancing American settlers, forced movement, and

broken treaties

What name did the first explorers of the Great Plains give the area?

Great American Desert

At the Comstock Lode, miners found rich deposits of

silver

Many of the first Colorado miners did not find gold or silver because

the gold and silver lay hidden below the surface

Where did Colonel John Chivington order an attack on the Cheyenne?

Sand Creek

What describes the historical significance of vaqueros?

They taught their trade and inspired the gear of the American cowboys

The Chisholm Trail was a trail that

cowboys used to drive cattle to a railroad line