Goal 4 Study Guide

Chapter 11 &12

Chapter 11-The South and West Transformed

  1. What is a key component of industrialization? How did the South change to meet this need? P. 361
  2. Industry rests on a three-legged stool. What were those three legs? P. 361
  3. What remained the centerpiece of the southern agricultural economy? P. 362
  4. What was the purpose of the Farmers’ Alliance? P. 362
  5. What gave African Americans the opportunity to learn to read and write during the years after the Civil War? P. 363
  6. What did the Civil Rights Act of 1875 guarantee? P. 363
  7. By the late 1860’s, what were Indians forced to live on? P. 365
  8. What two staggering blows threatened Native American civilizations? P. 366
  9. What happened in the fall of 1864 known as the Sand Creek Massacre? Why did praise turn to scorn for commanding officer John Chivington? P. 366
  10. In order to end hostilities with the Sioux Indians, what did the government sign with them? What did the government agree to do? What did the Sioux Indians agree to do? P. 368
  11. What war led to the final defeat of the Kiowas and Comanche Indians? P. 368
  12. Leader of the Sioux tribe Crazy Horse, led a charge against what American general? What happened to that general and his men? P. 368
  13. Before leaving the United States and going into Canada, what did Chief Joseph say? P. 370
  14. What did practitioners of the Ghost Dance believe? P. 370
  15. What was the outcome of the battle at Wounded Knee? P. 371
  16. What did the Dawes General Allotment Act give Native American families? P. 372
  17. How long did the families have to keep it until they could sell it? P. 372
  18. If mining towns ran out of gold and silver, what would these towns become? P. 375
  19. What did the United States government give in order for companies to build railroads? P. 375
  20. How did cowboys identify their cattle? P. 377
  21. What were two factors that led to the demise of the Open-range? P. 377
  22. What did the Homestead Act offer? P. 378
  23. What group of people was known as exodusters? Where were they going? P. 379
  24. What three inventions helped farmers succeed? P. 379
  25. What was the purpose of the Morrill Act in 1862? P. 379

Chapter 12-Issues of the Gilded Age

  1. What was the purpose of Jim Crow Laws? P. 388
  2. What three ideas were passed in order to keep African Americans from voting? P. 389
  3. In the Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson, what was the outcome? P. 389
  4. What did Booker T. Washington call for African Americans to do? P. 390
  5. What did W.E.B. Du Bois demand? P. 390
  6. What was the goal of the National Women Suffrage Association formed by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton? P. 395
  7. Who was the noteworthy President of the Gilded Age? P. 398
  8. Who exposed dirty politicians with their political cartoons? P. 398
  9. What did the spoils system offer to loyal political supporters? P. 398
  10. Under the civil service system, how would government workers get their jobs? P. 399
  11. Under the Pendleton Civil Service Act, what would interested applicants have to take before getting a government job? P. 399
  12. What did the gold standard mean the government would do? P. 400
  13. What happened to the price of cotton between 1875 and 1895? P. 401
  14. What were the goals of the grange? Who started this group? P. 403
  15. What was the platform of the Populist Party? P. 404
  16. What woman was a “fiery” speaker for women’s suffrage and the Populist Party? P. 404
  17. What two men ran in the election of 1896? Who spent the most money campaigning? Who won? P. 406-407

Goal 4 Vocabulary

Chapter 11&12

  1. Cash crop
  2. Farmers’ Alliance
  3. Civil Rights Act of 1875
  4. Reservation
  5. Sand Creek Massacre
  6. Sitting Bull
  7. Battle of Little Big Horn
  8. Wounded Knee
  9. Dawes General Allotment Act
  10. Transcontinental Railroad
  11. land grant
  12. open range
  13. Homestead Act
  14. Exodusters
  15. Jim Crow Laws
  16. poll tax
  17. literacy test
  18. grandfather clause
  19. Ida B. Wells
  20. Booker T. Washington
  21. W.E.B. DuBois
  22. spoils system
  23. civil service
  24. Pendleton Civil Service Act
  25. Oliver H. Kelley
  26. Grange
  27. Populist Party
  28. William JenningsBryan
  29. William McKinley