The West Review

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The West Review

• Angela Brown
• Chapter 15

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• 1. What did the Morrill Land-Grant Act and the
  Homestead Act have in common?
• They provided ways for settlers to acquire
  western lands.
• 2. Which statement best describes the lifestyle
  of homesteaders?
• Homesteaders often had to struggle even for the
  necessities.
• 3. Many agreements between Native Americans and
  the federal government fell apart because
• Native Americans and settlers had differing
  concepts of land ownership.

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• 4. What happened at the Massacre at Wounded Knee?
• American soldiers killed more than 200 unarmed
  Sioux.
• 5. In the West, the combination of big business
  and new agricultural techniques resulted in
• bonanza farms.
• 6. Which one of the following was a major
  complaint of farmers in the late 1800s?
• high tariffs on manufactured goods

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• 7. Western farmers wanted free silver because
  they felt it would
• increase crop prices.
• 8. The Interstate Commerce Act was passed to
• regulate railroad rates and practices.
• 9. Which one of the following did the Populists
  support?

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• a progressive income tax
• 10. Which one of the following is a lingering
  myth about the West?
• Settlers were nearly all white males.
• 11. The challenges and hardships of settling the
  Great Plains led settlers to
• depend on help from each other.

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• 12. Most African American Exodusters migrated
  west to
• escape racial violence in the South.
• 13. What reason was given by settlers as to why
  they had a greater right to western lands than
  the Native Americans?
• Settlers produced more food and wealth than
  Native Americans.
• 14. The experiences of Chief Joseph and the Nez
  Percé illustrate how

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• violent conflicts arose among settlers, the
  federal government, and Native Americans.
• 15. One way the government sought to change
  Native Americans was by
• requiring them to farm individual plots.
• 16. Farm mechanization resulted in
• an increase in farm production.

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• 17. One reason that the cattle boom ended in the
  mid-1880s was that
• farmers were using barbed wire to fence in the
  open range.
• 18. Most American farmers in the late 1800s
  protested
• high tariffs on manufactured goods.
• 19. In their platform, the Populists included
  provisions for

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• free silver, a progressive income tax, and an
  eight-hour day.
• 20. Frederick Jackson Turners thesis held that
  the frontier
• helped create the strong, individualistic
  American spirit.
• 21. These people bought up large areas of land in
  the hope of selling it later for a large profit.
• land speculators

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• 22. Custer's cavalry was wiped out at the
• Battle of Little Big Horn
• 23. Native Americans called African American
  Cavalry-men ________________ .
• buffalo soldiers
• 24. This chief led the Nez Perce' in their flight
  from the United States Army.

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• Chief Joseph
• 25. This candidate ran as the Democratic and
  Populist party nominee in the presidential
  election of 1896.
• William Jennings Bryan
• 26. This 1887 Act gave separate plots of land to
  each Native American family headed by a male.
• The Dawes Act

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• 27. These people snuck past the government
  officials to mark their land claims in advance.
• sooner
• 28. Planting crops that did not require a great
  deal of water and keeping the fields free of
  weeds was called
• dry farming
• 29. This American became famous by playing up the
  myths of the American West in his Wild West

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• William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody
• 30. In 1912 this American woman founded the
  American Girl Scouts because she feared that
  civilization had made girls too soft.
• Juliet Low

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Open Response One

• The conquest of the Native Americans resulted
  from a clash of cultures. Based on prior
  knowledge and class activities and discussion
  provide evidence to both support and refute this
  statement.

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• Weather or not it was a clash of cultures between
  the native Americans and the Americans
• The two did NOT get along. They did not like each
  other because there ways were different. Their
  religion was different. Their dress was
  different. Their homes were different. Every
  thing between the two were different. We tried to
  control the and what they did and believed. We
  didnt like their culture so we tried to destroy
  it. For example the dews act giving heads of
  houses land to farm. We even killed women and
  children
• NOT A CULTURAL CLASH
• Americans believed in manifest destiny and that
  we were destined to take over the American
  continent no matter who lived there. Weather it
  be French, English, or Canadians we would have
  still taken over the land regardless.

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NOT A CULTURAL CLASH Americans believed in
manifest destiny and that we were destined to
take over the American continent no matter who
lived there. Weather it be French, English, or
Canadians we would have still taken over the land
regardless.
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Open Response Two

• Discuss the rationalization used by white
  Americans to justify violating treaties and
  taking Native American land. Under what biases
  were the reformers operating who wanted to
  civilize the Native Americans? What
  assumptions did the federal government make in
  passing the Dawes Act? What examples of these
  issues do we continue to see in the world today?

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• The rationalization is that the native Americans
  are doing nothing. They are riding horses and are
  not doing anything with the land.
• We on the other hand were going to produce things
  and make things out of what we are given. More
  than the Indians did
• What were the bias that people had?
• That we would do more and that the Indians ways
  of life was not productive. These two cultures
  could not strive together
• The white men believed that they were doing the
  Indians a favor. That it was the American way so
  it was right

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• What assumptions did we make of the Indians?
• That they could and would want to farm. That is
  not true. They pretty much lived of buffalo.
  There way of life does not call for farming and
  vegetables.
• Where else in this world do we see this today?
• Iraq. The American people are changing there
  culture to be more like ours. We think that our
  culture is superior to theirs so we should take
  it over and help for the better. Americans
  continue to intervene and try to help other
  cultures.