Read Pages 445-451 (528-533; 537-538) in Your Textbook and Answer the Following Points

Homework Sheet

Friday, January 9

Read pages 445-451 (528-533; 537-538) in your textbook and answer the following points for mastery. - Understand the rising materialism of many Americans in the post-Civil War/Reconstruction era. - Evaluate “Social Darwinism” in reference to economic policy, civil rights, and opening of the West. - Show the similarities and differences between the major parties in the 1870s and 1880s. - Discuss key political issues of the Gilded Age. - Why did the parties fail to confront the major social and economic issues of the late nineteenth century? Consider that both parties were large coalitions with conflicting interests. Consider also that many of the problems were new (industrialization, urbanization). Is it surprising that answers were not readily available? - Compare the myth the West and its reality.

Monday, January 12

Read pages 451-457 (538-540; 436-440) in your textbook and answer the following points for mastery. - Explain why Booker T. Washington delivered his “Atlanta Compromise” address. - Identify Plains Indian tribes, their locations and common cultures. - Explain the outcome of the major Indian wars.

Tuesday, January 13

Read pages 457-464 (440-445) in your textbook and answer the following points for mastery. - Discuss the impact of mining on the American West. - What did two very different acts, the Dawes Act and the Homestead Act, have in common? - Did “laissez-faire” really mean that the government did not intervene in the economy?

Wednesday, January 14

Read pages 464-470 (445-454) in your textbook and answer the following points for mastery. - Explain how land policy was vital to westward settlement. - Identify four major transcontinental railroads, their routes and methods of financing. - Describe how the cattle kingdom developed into open-range ranching and barbed-wire warfare. - How were the lives of the Plains Indians in the second half of the nineteenth century affected by technological developments and government actions?

Friday, January 16

- Take Home Test on Chapter 17 - Chapter 17 Key Terms Name: ______Date: Friday, Jan. 16, 2015 In the Wake of War Period: ______

1) Which law abolished Indian tribal organization and divided reservations for the benefit of individuals? a. Homestead Act c. Dawes Severalty Act e. Indian Education Act b. Desert Land Act d. Timber Culture Act

2) The socioeconomic and religious life of the Plains tribes revolved around a. the sun c. cereal cultivation e. war b. the elk d. the buffalo

3) In the Civil Rights Cases the Supreme Court a. declared that the Constitution is “color-blind” b. upheld African Americans’ right to vote c. forbade segregation in public accommodations d. ruled that the Fourteenth Amendment protects civil rights against invasion by the states but not individuals e. upheld “Plessy v. Ferguson”

4) Immigrants who helped to build the Central Pacific Railroad from Sacramento to Promontory Point, Utah, were mainly a. Indians c. Germans e. Mexican b. Chinese d. Irish

5) The initial government policy toward the Plains tribes was a. to define boundaries for each tribe and sign treaties with them b. to exterminate them c. to give each North American “40 acres and a mule” for farming d. to provide intertribal warfare e. to ignore them and hope they would eventually die out

6) Plains Indians adapted all of the following from the white man EXCEPT a. trade c. the desire to farm e. the rifle b. cloth d. horses

7) Which one of the following would LEAST likely vote for a Democratic candidate in the late nineteenth century? a. Immigrants c. white southerners e. blacks b. Catholics d. former Confederate leaders

8) Social Darwinism would most likely be supported by a. Irish immigrants d. the wealthy business class b. the well educated middle class e. African Americans c. Chinese railroad workers

9) The Yale professor who promoted Social Darwinism as “root, hog, or die” was a. William Graham Sumner c. Walter Prescott Webb e. Francis Bowen b. Oakes Ames d. George Hearst

10) The leader of the fight of the Nez Perce toward Canada in 1877 was a. Crazy Horse c. Chief Joseph e. Wounded Knee b. Sitting Bull d. Spotted Tail 11) In the “Atlanta Compromise,” Booker T. Washington a. demanded passage of a federal law permitting blacks to vote b. called for segregation of public accommodations c. urged his fellow blacks to improve their personal economic well-being before seeking full political and social equality d. claimed Congress was a fault for white violence in the South e. challenged “Plessy v. Ferguson”

12) Which of the following did NOT lead to greater productivity by farmers in the late nineteenth century? a. iron and steel plows b. the use of new farm machinery, such as harvesters c. improved cotton gins d. greater specialization of agricultural production e. the rates charged by grain elevator owners

13) The principal Indian reservations were located in a. Montana and North Dakota d. Kansas and Nebraska b. South Dakota and Oklahoma e. Colorado and Wyoming c. California and Minnesota

14) The massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890 was the a. result of gold being discovered in the Utah territory b. work of Geronimo and his Apache bands in the Southwest c. beginning of a decade of Indian wars in the West d. last armed resistance by Native Americans towards the U.S. government e. final battle fought by the Nez Perce under Chie

15) The inventor of barbed wire was a. Joseph McCoy c. William F. Cody e. Joseph Glidden b. John Chivington d. Frederick Jackson Turner

16) Which of the following was among the objectives of Booker T. Washington? a. To keep up a constant agitation of questions of racial equality b. To encourage blacks to be more militant in demanding their rights c. To encourage blacks to work hard, acquire property, and prove they were worthy of their rights d. To urge blacks not to accept separate but equal status e. To form an organization to advance the rights of blacks

17) The Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 sought to a. end federal subsidies to landless Indian tribes and force them to support themselves b. prohibit the division of tribal lands into allotments and allow Indians to resume using their own tribal languages and rituals on their lands c. requisition desirable land from Indian tribes and force those tribes to relocate on smaller jointly occupied reservations, in which several tribes would reside, intermingle, and share the same land d. break up tribal reservations into individual allotments of land that could be occupied by Indians or purchased by whites e. prohibit Indians from using tribal languages or practicing ancient tribal religions on government reservations

18) Helen Hunt Jackson’s book entitled A Century of Dishonor (1880) recounted a. American imperialism and its effects on the middle class b. discriminatory practices employed by the United States government against African Americans c. the atrocities of the Spanish-American War d. the long record of broken treaties and injustices against American Indians e. the abuses involving big business trusts in America

19) The United States government’s outlawing of the Indian Sun (Ghost) Dance in 1890 resulted in the a. Battle of Little Big Horn d. Massacre at Sand Creek b. Battle of Potowanamie Creek e. Battle of Wounded Knee c. Dawes Severality Act

20) The “boom-and-bust” economy was most commonly associated with the a. mining frontier b. cattle frontier c. farming frontier d. Native American frontier e. expansion of the railroad

21) Which of the following characterized agriculture in BOTH the West and the South in the period 1870- 1900? a. Use of dry-farming techniques d. Raising crops for subsistence, not commerce b. Increased production e. Rising prices for farm products c. Introduction of sharecropping

22) The outbreak of the Indian Wars of the 1870s was caused by all of the following EXCEPT a. the U.S. government’s efforts to isolate Indian tribes on smaller reservations b. the rejection of earlier treaties by young Sioux warriors c. the rush of gold miners into Indian lands d. perceived failure of the U.S. government to honor past treaty commitments e. the division of tribal lands into individual farms for tribal members

23) The goals of assimilationists were most in conflict with which of the following? a. Founders of the Carlisle School b. Proponents of farming and industrial training c. Terms of the Dawes Act of 1887 d. Terms of the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 e. The granting of citizenship to Native Americans

24) The chief cause of farm protest in the late 19th century was a. the closing of the open range d. the increased money supply and prices b. middlemen, trusts, and railroads e. overproduction of crops on Great Plains c. increased competition from international sources

25) According to the Turner Thesis, the frontier encouraged all of the following EXCEPT a. social and political democracy d. a safety valve for discontent b. inventive and practical approaches to problems e. growth of class divisions c. a wasteful attitude toward natural resources

26) The main result of the crop lien system in the South in the late 19th century was a. a fairer distribution of land ownership among whites and blacks b. a decrease in the number of acres planted in cotton c. a cycle of debt for tenant farmers d. increased credit from northern bankers e. greater diversifications of crops 27) The New South movement promoted all of the following EXCEPT a. tax exemptions to attract new industries b. southern railroad systems integrated with the North c. a more self-sufficient southern economy d. social integration of the races e. investment in manufacturing

28) The Supreme Court upheld “separate but equal” accommodations for public transportation in the case of a. Munn v. Illinois c. Dred Scott v. Sanford e. Brown v. Topeka b. Wabash v. Illinois d. Plessy v. Ferguson

29) The Dawes Act (1887) did which of the following? a. Promoted the preservation of Native American cultural identity b. Divided Native American tribal lands into individual holdings c. Granted immediate citizenship to Native Americans d. Set up the reservation system e. Forbade the use of Native American languages in public schools

30) Which of the following was true of the 1873 Slaughterhouse Cases and the 1883 Civil Rights cases? a. They weakened the protection given to African Americans under the Fourteenth Amendment b. They weakened the protections to women under the Fourteenth Amendment c. They were reversed in Plessy v. Ferguson d. They were concerned with the constitutionality of the Emancipation Proclamation e. They were deplored by President Grant Name: ______Topic: In the Wake of War Due Date: Friday, January 16, 2015 Time Period: 1865 – 1898

Directions: Read pages 444-471 (528-540; 436-454). Inform the reader of several of the most important facts about each item on a separate piece of paper and hand-written. If it is an event, describe what happened and how it came out; if it is a person, detail the most important facts that this person should be remembered for. This should take 3 sentences. After finishing the sentence note both the source and note page number(s).

1. Laissez-faire 2. Social Darwinism 3. “Waving the Bloody Shirt” 4. Greenback Party 5. Graduated Income Tax 6. Civil Rights Cases 1883 7. Plessy Vs. Ferguson 1896 8. New South (Economic Changes; Social Conditions) 9. Booker T. Washington (philosophy on how to achieve Civil Rights) 10. Atlanta Compromise 11. W.E.B. DuBois (philosophy on how to achieve Civil Rights) 12. Jim Crow Laws 13. Exodusters 14. Indian Wars (Sand Creek, Little Big Horn, Wounded Knee) 15. Dawes Severalty Act 1887 16. Chisholm Trail 17. Cowboy Era 18. Barbed Wire 19. Transcontinental Railroad (Construction Issues; Impact) 20. Turner’s Thesis