Chap 4: Expansion

Who were the "exodusters"?

People who settled in Oklahoma

African American Migrants

Hispanic Ranch Hands

Bounty Hunters from New York

What happened at Little Big Horn?

A peace treaty between the US and the Cheyenne

Geronimo Surrendered

The Sioux and Cheyenne defeated Custer

The Sioux had a Ghost Dance

What was a main goal of the Populist Party?

Returning currency to a gold standard

Government owned Railroads

Passing the 15th Amendment

Extending the presidential terms

Why was the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad so important?

It provided jobs

It promoted trade

It allowed women freedom

It allowed for immigration

What was the Homestead Act?

It allowed settlers to move outwest if they paid $10 and lived there for 5 years

It allowed settlers to move outwest if they paid $100 and lived there for 10 years

It settled the west by taking money and land from immigrants

It gave people land in exchange for crops

What is dry farming?

Planting seeds and forgetting about them

Hydroplanting

Planting Seeds deep into the ground.

What is a reservation, in terms of Native Americans?

A promise to trade

Land given to Natives

Land taken from natives for settlers

What is a cooperative?

Stores where farmers only buy from other farmers

A complex where farmers live

Farmers owning land together and working it together

What is populism?

Populating America

The appeal of the upper classes

The appeal of the common people

The popular stores in the Mall working together for a common good.

True or False: The period that we take from the Cowboys was only 20 years long

True

False

What is the Dawes act?

It removed all the Natives' ways of life.

It removed the Natives from the US

It forced religion on the Natives

What happened at Wounded Knee?

A shot caused a massacre of US Soldiers.

A massacre of 200 Sioux

The End of the French and Indian War

The death of Sitting Bull

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