Chapter 5

Sec. 1 Obj.: Changes on the Western FrontierDate ______

Territory west of the Miss R was called the ______and left to Indians.

1.

2.

3.

4.

Factors contributing to plains settlement

1. ______

2. ______: Gave ______to any settler willing to stay for

______and to make ______.

3. ______: began shortly after the gold rush of 1849 and exploded during ______

Transcontinental RR – completed in 1869.

______moved west from Omaha, using ______

______moved east form Sacramento, using ______

May 10, 1869: lines were connected at ______

Results:

1.

2. Contributed to the destruction of the ______. Less than ______left by 1900. Why?

b.

c.

3.

Why were Plains Indians doomed?

1.

2.

3.

US Gov’t Indian Policy

1. Until 1880, tribes had moved to ______

2. 1881 Helen Hunt Jackson: “ ______”; criticized ______

______

3. Dawes Act, 1887: Attempt to “______” Indians. Each family was given ______

______. Failed. Why?

Homework

  1. ID: Sand Creek Massacre, 1864
  2. ID: Little Big Horn, 1876
  3. ID: Wounded Knee, 1890

Chapter 5

Sec. 1, 2 Obj.: Ranching and Farming on the Great PlainsDate ______

  1. ID: Treaty of Ft. Laramie
  2. What were the causes of the cattle industry becoming a big business?
  3. What were some of the causes of end of the open range?
  4. ID: vaqueros, exodusters, soddies, Morrill Act, bonanzas
  5. ID: Joseph Glidden, John Deere, Cyrus McCormick
  6. Why did the Homestead Act fail?
  7. ID: Frederick Jackson Turner, Boomers, Sooners
  8. Create a time line with the ten following events:
  1. Dawes Act
  2. Homestead Act
  3. Morrill Act
  4. Wounded Knee
  5. Little Big Horn
  6. Sand Creek
  7. Treaty of Ft. Laramie
  8. Promontroy Pt. (Transcontinental RR completed)
  9. Settlement of Oklahoma (closing of the frontier)
  10. “A Century of Dishonor”

Chapter 5

Sec. 3 Obj.: The Rise and Fall of PopulismDate ______

Problems with Plains farming

  1. Unstable ______
  2. ______: 1866-67: Wheat fell from $2.00 to .68 a bushel
  3. ______: Banks would foreclose on farms unable to pay ______
  4. Fluctuating money supply: ______were taken out of circulation after the ______

Bland Allison Act, 1878: Gov’t promised to purchase ______monthly to cause inflation: ______

  1. High shipping rates on ______: monopolies meant no ______

Formation of Farmers Organizations

Patrons of Animal Husbandry (The Grange) : Founded by ______

  1. Provide ______
  2. 1870’s: Began to fight the ______
  3. Set up ______

Farmers Alliances

  1. Sent ______to towns to teach farmers about ______and RR ______
  2. ______: “Farmers need to raise less corn and more hell.”
  3. Membership reached ______

The Populist Party, 1892

  1. Platform:
  1. Election 1892: 5 senators, 3 governors elected; became a plank in the platform of the ______
  2. Panic of 1893: 15,000 businesses and 500 banks failed. Unemployment at 20%
  1. Farmers had massive amounts of ______
  2. Collapse of several ______
  3. Low gov’t ______
  4. Panic on ______caused stock prices to ______

4. Gold vs. Silver: What should back money?

Gold BugsSilverites

Who they were

What they wanted

Why

Effects

5. Election of 1896:

a. Republicans nominate ______

b. Democrats and Populists nominate ______

c. Sig.: McKinley’s win signals the death of the ______, but shows

1) that politics can provide a______, and

2) sets in place an agenda of ______coming in the 20th century.