Great Plains Assimilation Longhorn Long Drive

The Americans – Reconstruction to the 21 st Century – Unit 2, Chapter 5, Sections 1 – 3; pgs 202-223; 11.1.4, 11.2.6, CST 1, CST 3, HI 3, 11.8.6, REP 4, HI 2, 11.2.8, REP 1, HI 4; 2 per page

Vocabulary Great Plains assimilation longhorn long drive coup exoduster soddy bonanza farm speculator locust mortgage extortion Grange Populism bimetallism gold standard regulate

Comprehension Questions 1. How did most Easterners picture the West? 2. What did the Spanish bring that changed the Native American way of life? 3. What was one way for the young men of a tribe to win prestige? 4. Why might warring tribes sometimes call a truce? 5. Give four examples of how the Plains Indians used the buffalo. 6. How did the children of the Plains Indian tribes learn proper behavior and culture? 7. What was a major difference between white settlers and Native Americans with respect to ownership of land? 8. What argument did white settlers use to say that Native Americans had forfeited their rights to the land? 9. What was one powerful attraction of the West? 10. How did the government’s policy about Native American land change from 1834 to the 1850s? 11. Describe what happened at the Massacre at Sand Creek. 12. What did Sitting Bull say about George Armstrong Custer? 13. Read the quote in A Personal Voice on page 206. Why did the Native Americans resist the restrictions imposed upon them? 14. What tactics did the army use to crush resistance on the southern plains? 15. What did Helen Hunt Jackson expose in her book A Century of Dishonor? 16. What was the point of the Dawes Act? 17. How much money did the Native Americans get as a result of the property sales authorized by the Dawes Act? 18. What was the most significant blow to tribal life on the plains? 19. What did a Paiute prophet promise would happen if the Sioux performed a ritual called the Ghost Dance? 20. Describe what happened at Wounded Knee. 21. Who taught American settlers how to round up, rope, brand, and care for the large herd of open range cattle? 22. What is a vaquero? 23. Name at least five English words that come from the traditions of the first Spanish ranchers in Mexico. 24. Use at least three sentences to describe a real-life cowboy. 25. What three factors were largely responsible for the end of the open range? 26. Where was most of the gold found during the gold rush located? 27. What made the rapid settlement of 400 million acres of the Great Plains possible? 28. How much public land did the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads get for each mile of track laid in a state or territory? 29. What did the Homestead Act offer? 30. How did Oklahoma come to be known as the Sooner State? 31. What is the U.S Census Bureau? 32. What was the predominant crop of the Great Plains? 33. Describe at least three inventions that made grain available for a wider market. 34. Give an example of how the railroads took advantage of western farmers. 35. What was the original purpose of the Grange? 36. Why did the black farmers’ alliances have to work mostly in secret? 37. Describe three economic reforms proposed by the Populist Party. 38. What two groups of people became the Republicans and the Democrats?

Written Answer Write a paragraph with a minimum of six sentences to explain what you have learned in this lesson. Be sure to include a topic sentence, four detail sentences, and a concluding sentence.