husi chapter 11 review game questions

what american general was killed at the battle of little bighorn?

george custer

what was the name of the railroad company that left out of sacramento and went east?

central pacific

what was the name of the railroad company that left out of omaha and went west?

union pacific

what were cattle routes known as?

long drives

what was the main cattle route?

chisholm trail

which colonel’s bad judgement led to his death?

george custer

massacre in which over 150 native americans were killed even after many surrenders

sand creek

who led the americans into the battle of 100 slain?

william fetterman

where was the transcontinental railroad completed?

promontory point

frequent moving around because of following a food source is called

nomadic

final clash between the army and native americans

battle of wounded knee

which law broke up native american reservations and gave native americans plots of land?

dawes act

which legislation was similar to the dawes act, but was meant to encourage settlement in the west?

homestead act

what animal did the spanish bring that aided native americans in hunting?

horses

when was the transcontinental railroad completed?

may 10, 1869

name two things that destroyed the bison

settlers hunting them off the trains, popular skins

refused to get off the gold standard

gold bugs

supported silver-backing and opposed the gold bugs

silverites

home built out of prarie turf

soddy

what problems occurred with a soddy home?

mud when it rains, bugs & infestation

although miners tried to make money out west, what group of people was more guaranteed to make money?

business owners

what happened to most of the land in the dawes act?

went to speculators

what was the cause of the end of the long drive?

harsh winters and dry summers

what marked the fall of populism?

presidential election of 1896 (mckinley)

what were some of the ways native americans used bison culturally? (not food, clothing, or shelter)

religious rituals, followed for places to live (nomadic)

allowed cattle to be fenced in without much wood

barbed wire

inventions that made farming possible in the west

steel plow, reaper, windmill, barbed wire

what caused the lack of wood in the west?

not enough trees

businesses in mining towns

general store, saloon, brothel, hotel, post office, bathhouse, banks, restaurants

previously enslaved black people who went to the plains for farming

exodusters

patrons of husbandry was founded by

oliver hudson kelley

american learned their skills from

mexican cowboys/vaqueros

nickname of the patrons of husbandry

the grange

what major speech did silverite william jennings bryan make?

cross of gold

how could the transcontinental railroad be called “transcontinental” if it started in omaha?

it was built off of previously laid tracks

name of outlawed dance of native americans at wounded knee

ghost dance

other than food and culture, what were bison used for?

shelter/teepees

why did farmers want inflation?

debts would be paid off with cheaper money, higher prices of goods

why were native americans unsuccessful at farming under the dawes act?

didn’t have the knowledge, nomadic, hunters,not enough land

bankers were on what side of the gold/silver backing debate

gold

the completion of this encouraged westerward expansion

transcontinental railroad

native american chief at little bighorn

sitting bull

group of immigrants that primarily worked for central pacific

chinese

group of immigrants that primarily worked for union pacific

irish

acres of land given to each household in the homestead act

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