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Reading Outline Chapter 17: Period 5 pgs 397-420

The Transformation of the Trans-Mississippi West

(This is only an outline- be sure to take your own notes as well) (For example I may ask about a specific accomplishment or location on the quiz - it’s fair game)

As you read and use the outline label your notes using BAGPIPE to figure out where the details fit into the themes.

  1. Introduction
  2. How was the transformation of the west a mixed legacy?
  3. Native Americans and the Trans-Mississippi West
  4. The Plains Indians
  5. What regions did the plains Indians inhabit?
  6. Who were the so called 5 civilized tribes?
  7. Describe the lifestyle of the Dakota Sioux versus the Lakota Sioux
  8. Describe at least 3 characteristics of plains Indian Culture
  9. What happened in the 1860s that impacted the Native American way of life?
  10. The assault on Nomadic Indian Life
  11. How did the government reevaluate its Indian policies in the 1850s?
  12. How did Native Americans react?
  13. Give at least 2 examples of final battles for the west.
  14. What were the effects?
  15. Define the Fort Laramie Treaty and actions taken by Native Americans or army troops following the treaty
  16. What happened to treaty making in 1871?
  17. How does this change how this show how the government views Native Americans political standing even today?
  18. What did Native Americans do in the 1870s?
  19. Custer’s Last Stand 1876
  20. What did the Fort Laramie Treaty give to the Sioux Tribe?
  21. Describe three causes for conflict between the Native American and the government at this time.
  22. Who is Sitting Bull?
  23. Who is George Custer? What are his intentions in the Black Hills? What happened to him?
  24. How did American react?
  25. How did the army react after the defeat at Bighorn?
  26. “Saving” the Indians
  27. Some American did not agree with the actions of the US government. Give example.
  28. How did Americans feel they could solve the “Indian problem”?
  29. Define the Dawes Severalty Act. What was its purpose and effect?
  30. How is the widespread poverty on reservations today rooted in these events of the early 1900s?
  31. The Ghost Dance and the End of Indian Resistance on the Great Plains, 1890
  32. What happened to Sioux living conditions in the late 1880s?
  33. How did the Ghost danced emerge? What did it become?
  34. What happened to Chief Sitting Bull?
  35. What happened at Wounded Knee and what is its significance?
  36. Settling the West
  37. After the defeat of the Native Americans in the west what changed?
  38. First Transcontinental Railroad
  39. What is the transcontinental railroad?
  40. What were the effects of the expansion of these rails?
  41. What is the significance of Promontory Point? Who did the work to build these railroads?
  42. What were the economic effects?
  43. Settlers and the Railroad
  44. Who provided the land that these railroads needed to expand?
  45. How did the government and railroads try to recruit settlers?
  46. How did they influence agriculture?
  47. Homesteading on the Great Plains
  48. Define the Homestead Act. What was its impact?
  49. What other acts were intended to solve the problem of the Homestead Act?
  50. What problems did many settlers face? (know several examples) How did they try and overcome these?
  51. New Farms, New Markets
  52. What new inventions did farmers take advantage of? Know the effects on farming life of these inventions
  53. Building a Society and Achieving Statehood
  54. What were some new states that were created?
  55. How did these states feel about women’s suffrage? Why?
  56. The Spread of Mormonism
  57. Who were the Mormons? How did they help settle the west?
  58. Define United States v. Reynolds
  59. Southwestern Borderlands
  60. What happened to the Spanish speaking residents of the southwest after the Mexican war?
  61. What was happening in Texas with regards to identity and cultural disputes? California?
  62. How were Mexicans, Native Americans, and Chinese treated in many western states? Why?
  63. What is one example of successful cooperation between Hispanic and white Americans?
  64. How did some Mexican Americans react?
  65. Why did Mexican Americans continue to lose work, their land and become impoverished?
  66. Know examples of violence and discrimination against Spanish speaking citizens. What connections can you make to some of the issues of today?
  67. Exploiting the Western Landscape
  68. Define Bonanza Farm
  69. The Mining Frontier
  70. Define Comstock Lode- what was its significance in the 1850s?
  71. What other precious minerals were discovered and where?
  72. What impact did these discoveries have on the west?
  73. What areas began to expand as a result of mining?
  74. What were the environmental effects of this “progress?
  75. Cowboys and the Cattle Frontier
  76. How did the identity of the cowboy change as a result of the Cattle Business?
  77. What impact did Joseph McCoy have on the cattle industry?
  78. What were the great cattle drives of the 1860s and 1870s
  79. What happened to the cattle business after the panic of 1873?
  80. What was life like for a try cowpuncher?
  81. What brought the days of the open range and great cattle drives to an end?
  82. Cattle Towns and Prostitutes
  83. How would you describe the American Identity of the West?
  84. Bonanza Farms?
  85. How did farming begin in the Dakota Territory?
  86. What were these farms like?
  87. Why did the Wheat Boom collapse?
  88. Where were farms most successful? Why?
  89. The Oklahoma Land Rush
  90. Originally what was land in Oklahoma designated for?
  91. What was the Oklahoma land grab? Who were the Sooners?
  92. Define the Curtis Act
  93. What eventually happened to the “free land”
  94. The West of Life and Legend
  95. Who was Frederick Jackson Turner and what did he discuss in his writing?
  96. How did his writings impact the identity of the west?
  97. The American Adam and The Dime Novel
  98. What is the west according to Huckleberry Finn?
  99. What were Dime Novels?
  100. Revitalizing the Frontier Legend
  101. What was the west to writers and artists?
  102. What did the myth of the west fail to mention?
  103. Beginning a National Parks Movement
  104. Who was John Wesley Powell?
  105. What was the importance of this new appreciation of the land during the 1870s?
  106. What is ironic about the creation of the Yellowstone National Park with regards to Native American land?
  107. Who was John Muir? What was his impact on land conservation?