5 Written Questions

1. An act that removed Indian land from tribal possesion, redivided it, and distributed it among individual Indian families. In this 1887 law which gave all Native American males 160 acres to farm and also set up schools to make Native American children more like other Americans: see assimilation.
2. the process by which minorities gradually adopt patterns of the dominant culture
3. a monetary standard under which the basic unit of currency is defined by a stated quantity of gold; Used by the U.S. until FDR removed it in 1933
4. hoping to ensure peace, the federal government negotiated this treaty in 1851. eight native american groups agreed to specific geographical boundaries, while the u.s. promised that these territories would belong to the native americans forever
5. Refers to the overland transport of cattle by the cowboy over the three month period. Cattle were sold to settlers and Native Americans.

5 Matching Questions

1. HOMESTEAD ACT
2. SODDY
3. MORRILL ACT
4. GRANGE
5. OLIVER HUDSON KELLY

1. a Allows for creation of land-grant colleges, colleges built on federally granted land specially appropriated for this purpose. It was signed into law by Lincoln
2. b an association formed by farmers in the last 1800s to make life better for farmers by sharing information about crops, prices, and supplies
3. c organized the Grange
4. d a frontier home usually dug into a hill or made from sod
5. e Passed in 1862, it gave 160 acres of public land to any settler who would farm the land for five years. The settler would only have to pay a registration fee of $25.

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. Farm-based movement of the late 1800s that arose mainly in the area from Texas to the Dakotas and grew into a joint effort between farmer and labor groups against big business and machine-based politics. The movement became a third party in the election of 1892.
   1. BIMETALISM
   2. SODDY
   3. PULLMAN
   4. POPULISM
2. He was a Military leader in the Battle of Little Big Horn. Found Gold in Black Hills and forced Sioux out (Little Big Horn)
   1. EXODUSTERS
   2. GEORGE A. CUSTER
   3. GREAT PLAINS
   4. GRANGE
3. a vast prairie region extending from Alberta and Saskatchewan and Manitoba in Canada south through the west central United States into Texas
   1. BIMETALISM
   2. GREENHORN
   3. GREAT PLAINS
   4. GRANGE
4. "The Great Commoner.": he was defeated by William McKinley but retained control of the Democrat Willic Party.supporter of Prohibition in the 1920s, and energetically attacked Darwinism and evolution, most famously at the Scopes Trial
   1. PUBLIC DOMAIN STATE
   2. SITTING BULL
   3. WILLIAMS JENNINGS BRYAN
   4. WILLIAM MCKINLEY
5. Indians became restless, and the government dispatched the 7th Cavalry, Custer's old unit to the scene. In hope of calming hte crisis, the Indian police officers tried to arrest Sitting Bull but he refused making the officers shoot and kill him, his followers surrendered and were round up at a creek called Wounded Kee. as they were being disarmed, someone fired a shot and soldiers opened fire killing more than 200 sioux.
   1. TREATY OF FORT LARAMIE
   2. BATTLE OF WOUNDED KNEE
   3. LONG DRIVE
   4. GEORGE A. CUSTER

5 True/False Questions

1. LONGHORN → a breed of sturdy, long-horned cattle brought by the Spanish to Mexico and suited to the dry conditions of the southwest

   True        False

2. BIMETALISM → Farm-based movement of the late 1800s that arose mainly in the area from Texas to the Dakotas and grew into a joint effort between farmer and labor groups against big business and machine-based politics. The movement became a third party in the election of 1892.

   True        False

3. EXODUSTERS → the African Americans migrating to the Great Plains state (ie: Kansas & Oklahoma) in 1879 to escape conditions in the South

   True        False

4. CHISHOLM TRAIL → the major long drive route north from Texas to Ablilene, Kansas, where cowboys drove herds of cattle to the railroads to be shipped back East for huge profits

   True        False

5. PULLMAN → Farm-based movement of the late 1800s that arose mainly in the area from Texas to the Dakotas and grew into a joint effort between farmer and labor groups against big business and machine-based politics. The movement became a third party in the election of 1892.

   True        False