Crash Course in Western Migration and Populism

All Due Thursday

Quiz Thursday on Goal 4

Part I. Watch the following video

“Transcontinental Railroad”

  1. What impact did the Railroad have on Westward expansion?
  2. How did the Railroad acquire the land to construct the railroad? What did they do with some of the land?
  3. What group of people helped to construction the railroad?

Part II. Write the following terms to define.

  1. Comstock Lode
  2. Homestead Act
  3. Morrill Land Grant Act 1862
  4. Promontory Point Utah
  5. Transcontinental Railroad
  6. Cattle Drives
  7. Dime Novels
  8. Sand Creek Massacre
  9. Battle of Little Big Horn
  10. Dawes Severalty Act
  11. Wounded Knee
  12. The Grange
  13. National Farmers Alliances
  14. Southern Alliance
  15. Bimetallism
  16. Greenbacks.
  17. Munn V. Illinois
  18. Wabash V. Illinois
  19. Rebates
  20. Interstate Commerce Act
  21. A Century of Dishonor

Part III. Culture Clash on the Prairie

Read Chapter 13 Section 1 to complete this section.

  1. What animal provided food, shelter, and clothing to the Plains Indians?
  2. Describe the lifestyle of these Indians.
  3. How did the view of land between Indians and white settlers differ?
  4. What means of travel did settlers use to get out west?
  5. What was one cause for settlement out west?
  6. What did the government do in the 1850’s in regards to how to deal with Native Americans? What would be the effect of this?
  7. What effect would the effect of the Dawes Act?
  8. What was the most significant blow to the Plains Indians way of life?

Indian Wars Chart: Complete the chart below providing information about the Indian wars fought in the Great Plains

Battle/War / Who (Tribes and key people) / Cause / Effect (outcome)
Sand Creek Massacre
Fettermen Massacre
Red River War
Battle of Little Big Horn
Battle of Wounded Knee

Cattle Becomes Big Business

  1. What was the cause of high demand for beef? Which region demanded more beef?
  2. What became the major cattle route?
  3. What would close the range (open plains)?

Part IV. Settling the Plains Chapter 13 Section 2

  1. Complete the following flow chart.
  1. Write a one day journal entry of what it was like living on the prairie. Choose to write from the perspective of a farmer, gold miner or cowboy. Use Chapter 13 section 2 notes and or the internet.

Part V. Science and Technology: Inventions That Tamed The Prairie: Chapter 13 Section 2

Identify the new technology and innovations that helped farmers “tame the prairie.”

Invention/Innovation / Impact

Part VI. Farmers and the Populist Movement: Chapter 13 Section 3

Answer the following questions

  1. What were the issues that farmers were dealing with toward the end of the 1800’s?
  2. Problem 1 (describe)
  1. Problem 2 (describe)
  1. Problem 3 (describe)
  1. Identify the names of the early farmers organization created to push for reforms.
  2. What was the name of the political party that was formed by the Leaders of these Farmers Alliances? List their proposed reforms. What would be the lasting legacy that was kept alive by the Democratic Party?
  3. What would become the central issue of political parties during the election of 1896?
  4. What name of William Jennings Bryan famous speech?
  5. What were the two legacies left after the collapse of the Populist Party?

Part VII. Review

  1. What was so significant about the transcontinental railroad?
  2. It was the first railroad built after the Civil War.
  3. It served to unite the nation by connecting eastern and western railways.
  4. It served to unite the nation by connecting southern and northern railways.
  5. It was the first railroad built solely y white, native born citizens.
  1. Settlers who moved west were Least motivated by which of the following?
  2. A desire for wealth
  3. A desire on the part of women to have more freedoms and opportunities
  4. A desire to possess land
  5. A desire to avoid new technologies
  6. The Comstock Lode is an example of which of the following.
  7. The impact of precious ore discoveries on western settlement in the 1800s
  8. The impact of land availability on western settlement in the 1800s
  9. Concerns on the part of farmers leading to the Populists Movement
  10. The Gold Rush of 1849
  11. Which of the following would have had the Least amount of impact on Native Americans in the West?
  12. The discovery of gold
  13. The Homestead Act
  14. Killing of the buffalo
  15. The Omaha Platform
  16. Which of the following statements would a Populist’s have MOST agreed with?
  17. It is essential in order to maintain a stable economy, that the US dollar be based solely on gold.
  18. It is not the role of the government to interfere with commerce.
  19. It is necessary to pump more money into the nation’s economy in order to east the nation’s burdens.
  20. Congress must not pass the Interstate Commerce Act because it will hurt the US farmer.
  21. Of the following, which is the only battle representing a Native American victory?
  22. Little Bighorn
  23. Wounded Knee
  24. The Sand Creek Massacre
  25. Promontory, Utah
  26. In what way did the Homestead At and the Morrill Land-Grant Act impact western settlement?
  27. They both served to make it easier tor people to acquire land if they would move west
  28. They both stated that if one discovered gold on a certain piece of land, then that land became theirs.
  29. They both ensure religious freedom on the frontier
  30. They both established land grant colleges in Oklahoma territory.