Name: ______Date: ______
Class: ____
Topic II Review
Identify the following:
A Black farmer who migrated West after the Civil War____Exoduster______
An Indian chief killed during the Wounded Knee Massacre____SittingBull______
Began the farmer’s organization known as the Grange____Kelley______
People’s Party candidate for president in 1896____Bryan______
A farmer on the prairie____Sodbuster______
Signed the Pendleton Civil Service Act into law____Arthur______
President who led the nation back to prosperity____McKinley______
Waited to claim land in Oklahoma____Boomer______
Killed at the Battle of Little Bighorn____Custer______
Claimed land in Oklahoma illegally____Sooner______
Began political campaigning for the people:____Bryan______
Be prepared to write about the conflict with Native Americans or
The reasons for the growth of the U.S. government
Know these Acts of Congress
Bland-Allison Act – Required the government to mint ____silver______for money.
Dawes Act – Gave land to ___Indians______for farming to assimilate them.
Homestead Act – Gave land to whites for ___farming______and ____ranching______
InterstateCommerce Act - Allowed government to regulate ___railroads______
Morrill Land Grant Act – Gave land to states for __selling______
Pendleton Civil Service Act – Required civil servants to take a ___test______
Pacific Railway Act – Gave __land_____ for building railroads
Chinese Exclusion Act – Limited the immigration of ___Chinese______
The Plains Indians used this for food, shelter, clothes, and tools:__Buffalo______
A tax on imported goods:__Tariff______
The Gold Standard caused:__Deflation______
A politician controlled by a business man or group:_Political______Machine______
Political favors offered for support:_Spoils______System______
Invention that ended the open range:_Barbed______Wire______
The destination of cattle drives:__Railroads______
Too much money in circulation:__Inflation______
A member of the People’s Party:__Populist______
Creating a list
What were THREE things someone needed to do in order to receive land under the Homestead Act?
___Build a house and a road______
___Build a fence______
___Dig a well______
What were THREEtechnological advances that improved farming life on the Great Plains?
____The steel plow that could cut and turn the sod______
____The mechanical reaper, seed drill, windmill______
_____Barbed Wire______
What were TWO effects of the railroads on the development of the western United States?
_____Railroads move people to the west for settling______
_____Railroads moved resources and produce east to markets______
List THREEpresidents of the United States during the era of westward expansion.
__Hayes or Garfield______Arthur or Cleveland__ __McKinley______
List THREE famous IndianChiefs involved in the Indian wars of the west.
__Red Cloud or Joseph______Crazy Horse______Sitting Bull or Piapot__