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Chapter 19 The New West Powerpoint Questions

The Frontier West (1865-1914) Instructions: Use the American Nation Textbook Pages 542-567 and class notes to answer these questions. Answer the following questions in complete sentences or you will loose half credit! 1. Name a tribe of Indians that lived on the Great Plains. (Slide 2) ________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Describe the Plains Indians. (Hint Write two facts about this tribe, Slide 3 or see your textbook)

________________________________________________________________________________ 3. Define the word agriculture. (Click on web link on slide 4 or use a dictionary.) ________________________________________________________________________________

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4. What was the main source of food for the Plains Indians? (Slide 4) ________________________________________________________________________________ 5. What animal changed the way of life of the Indians? (Slide 4) ________________________________________________________________________________ 6. Who brought horses to the Plains? (Slide 4) ________________________________________________________________________________ 7. What did the Indians do with the horses they were left with? (Slide 4) ________________________________________________________________________________ 8. What animal roamed the plains and served as a living grocery store? (Slide 5) ________________________________________________________________________________

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9. Where were the large herds of buffalo driven into? (Slide 5) ________________________________________________________________________________ 10. What is a corral? (See Web link, Slide 5 or the picture on the right side) ________________________________________________________________________________ 10A.What is a tepee? (Slide 6)

________________________________________________________________________________ 11. What was dried buffalo meat called? (Slide 6)

________________________________________________________________________________ 12. What is a Sundance? (Slide 7)

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13. Name two jobs did the Plains Indian women did? (Slide 8)

________________________________________________________________________________ 14. Name two jobs did the Plains Indian men did? (Slide 9)

________________________________________________________________________________ 15. What was the Gold Rush? (Slide 10)

________________________________________________________________________________ 16. Define the term, lode? (See web link on page 11 or use a dictionary) ________________________________________________________________________________ 17. Who discovered the Comstock Lode? (Slide 11)

________________________________________________________________________________ 18. What was a tent city? (Slide 12)

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19. What was a ghost town? (Slide 13)

________________________________________________________________________________ 20. Using the chart on page 13, what led to the development of a ghost town? (Slide 14)

________________________________________________________________________________ 21. What is an “iron horse?” (Slide 15) ________________________________________________________________________________ 22. What was the transcontinental railroad? (Slide 17) ________________________________________________________________________________ 23. What countries did the railroad workers come from? (Slide 18) ________________________________________________________________________________ 24. Where did the Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads meet? (Slide 19) ________________________________________________________________________________

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25. What was hammered into the rail that joined the Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroad? (Slide 19)

________________________________________________________________________________ 26. What was a longhorn? (Slide 20)

________________________________________________________________________________ 27. What was a cattle drive?” (Slide 21)

________________________________________________________________________________ 28. What was a cow town? (Slide 24) ________________________________________________________________________________ 29. Name two cow towns. (Slide 24) ________________________________________________________________________________ 30. What did each cow town have? (Slide 24)

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31. What role did a church have in a cow town? (Slide 25) ________________________________________________________________________________ 32. Why did the cattle boom end? (Slide 25) ________________________________________________________________________________ 33. Where did Americans force Indians to do? (Slide 26)

________________________________________________________________________________ 34. How did the Indians feel about the broken promises? (Slide 27) ________________________________________________________________________________ 35. What treaty did the United States Government break? (Slide 28)

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36. What did the Fort Laramie Treaty say? (Slide 28)

________________________________________________________________________________ 37. Where was gold struck in 1858? (Slide 29) ________________________________________________________________________________ 38. What were the Indians forced to do when gold was struck in Pikes Peak? (Slide 29) ________________________________________________________________________________ 39. What was the Chivington Massacre? (Slide 29)

________________________________________________________________________________ 40. What is a reservation? (Slide 30)

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41. Name two reasons the buffalo were being destroyed. (Slide 31)

Reason 1._______________________________________________________________________________ 2._______________________________________________________________________________ 42. Who fought back against the Americans when gold was found in the Black Hills? (Slide 33) ________________________________________________________________________________ 43. Who lost the Battle of Little Big Horn? (Slide 33) ________________________________________________________________________________ 44. Who led the Apache Indians against the settlers? (Slide 34) ________________________________________________________________________________

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45. What did the settlers get under the Homestead Act? (Slide 36) ________________________________________________________________________________ 46. What was a homesteader? (Slide 36) ________________________________________________________________________________ 47. Name a problem with the Homestead Act. (Slide 37) ________________________________________________________________________________ 48. Who were the Exodusters? (Slide 37) ________________________________________________________________________________ 49. How many Africans moved to Kansas? (Slide 37) ________________________________________________________________________________ 50. What was a sod house? (Slide 38) ________________________________________________________________________________

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51. What was the National; Grange? (Slide 39) ________________________________________________________________________________ 52. What was a cooperative? (Slide 39) ________________________________________________________________________________ 53. Define the term, wholesale. (Slide 39) ________________________________________________________________________________ 54. Name two jobs did the women did on the plains? (Slide 40) ________________________________________________________________________________ 55. What did the Populist Party demand? (Slide 41) ________________________________________________________________________________ 56. What is income tax? (Slide 41) ________________________________________________________________________________

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57. Who became the President in 1896? (Slide 43) ________________________________________________________________________________ 58. What became standard for American workers? (Slide 44)

_______________________________________ _______________________________________________ 59. What movie was a political commentary of society 1865-1914? (Slide 45)

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