Chapter 17

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What were the physical features of the Great Plains?

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rolling prairies, south of the Missouri River

Answer 2

rough, semi arid, lands, at the foot of the Rocky Mountains

Answer 3

east of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, parched deserts

Answer 4

treeless, nearly flat with grassy hillocks, from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains

Answer 5

men held positions of authority, cleared grounds for farming, supervised ceremonial activities, hunters; women did domestic work, reared children, gatherers, had roles in political, economic, and religious activities

Answer 6

tribes and bands depended horses for transportation and buffalos for weapons, fuel for fire, food, housing, clothing, glue

Answer 7

tribes of thousands broke down into bands of hundreds who all spoke the same dialects and were often dependent on one another

Answer 8

fierce warriors, fighting between tribes and/or bands took place as brief skirmishes or small raids

Answer 9

prohibited white men from entering Indian land without a license

Answer 10

assigned definite boundaries to each Indian tribe

Answer 11

small reservations for Indian tribes to civilize them up to American standards

Answer 12

exchanged land for assimilation

Answer 13

divided tribal lands into small plots for distribution among Native Americans

Answer 14

any extra land not given away was sold to white settlers with the profits going towards Native American schools

Answer 15

American citizenship was given to Native Americans who accepted their land, lived away from their tribes, and assimilated

Answer 16

government kept Native American lands in their trusts for 25 years to keep them from falling into the hands of speculators

Answer 17

forced into reservations

Answer 18

settlers taking their land and supplies

Answer 19

diseases brought over by white settlers and explorers

Answer 20

extermination of the buffalo

Answer 21

160 acres of land to those who planted trees on a quarter of the land within four years

Answer 22

160 acres of land to those who paid a registration fee and pledged to live on and cultivate the land for five years

Answer 23

family heads received 160 acres of land, single adults 80 acres, and children received 40 acres of land

Answer 24

buy up to 160 acres of land for $1.25 per acre, provided that they irrigate part of the bought land in three years

Answer 25

oil companies

Answer 26

steel companies

Answer 27

mining companies

Answer 28

railroad companies

Answer 29

Northwest Ordinance of 1787 (established rules on how territories became states)

Answer 30

president appointed governor and judges in each territory while Congress detailed their duties, set their budgets, and oversaw their activities

Answer 31

until statehood, territorial government depended on the federal government and national political parties funneled government funds into territorial economies

Answer 32

All of the above

Answer 33

brought new mining, stock raising, ranching methods, and irrigated farming techniques along with new laws, burros, chaps

Answer 34

created legal framework for distributing land and water and the distinctive shape of society ( men headed households, women kept full control of property owned before marriage along and held half title to property in a marriage)

Answer 35

modified economic caste system, strong Protestant influence, primary use of Spanish language

Answer 36

established present day economic structure of the Southwest

Answer 37

Pikes Peak, Colorado and Carson River Valley, Nevada in 1859

Answer 38

Klondike Gold Rush, 1876

Answer 39

1874-1876, Black Hills, Dakota Territory

Answer 40

California Gold Rush of 1849, Big Bonanza in 1873, Sierra Nevada

Answer 41

severe droughts, declining crop prices, swarms of locusts

Answer 42

harsh winters, severe droughts in summers, low crop prices, rising railroad rates

Answer 43

declining crop prices, rising railroad rates, heavy mortgages, severe droughts, harsh winters, locusts, farmers gave up and left

Answer 44

severe droughts, farmers gave up and left, declining crop prices, rising railroad rates, heavy mortgages

Answer 45

farmers planted crops that could survive without watering

Answer 46

farmers plowed furrows 12-14 inches deep to

Answer 47

farmers plowed furrows 12-14 inches deep and created dust mulch to fill the furrows to fertilize their crops

Answer 48

farmers plowed furrows 12-14 inches deep and created dust mulch to fill the furrows, loosened soil to slow evaportaion

Answer 49

imported a variety of European crops to withstand the harsh winters, and new inventions such as iron plows, spring toothed harrow, grain drill, lister, baling press, hay loader, cord binder, barbed wire, bonanza farms

Answer 50

new inventions such as iron plows, spring toothed harrow, grain drill, lister, baling press, hay loader, cord binder, barbed wire

Answer 51

dry farming, new inventions such as iron plows, spring toothed harrow, grain drill, lister, baling press, hay loader, cord binder, barbed wire

Answer 52

dry farming, new inventions such as iron plows, spring toothed harrow, grain drill, lister, baling press, hay loader, cord binder, barbed wire, bonanza farms

Answer 53

earthquakes wreaked havoc upon crops and homes

Answer 54

farmers lived in sod houses, distant from each other

Answer 55

lumber, water, and fences were scarce

Answer 56

fearsome winter storms, harsh spring rainstorms, hot summers, swarms of locusts

Answer 57

cattle ownership, roundups, meal allowance

Answer 58

cattle ownership, branding, guard duty

Answer 59

cattle ownership, pay, meal allowance

Answer 60

cattle ownership, branding, roundups

Answer 61

simple democracy, after strikes, workers organized mining district and adopted rules governing behavior, size and boundaries of claims, and settling disputes

Answer 62

men outnumbered women, mixed with foreign born immigrants

Answer 63

laws were enforced, minor criminals banished, major offenses were hung after being judged by the district

Answer 64

all of the above

Answer 65

Joseph G McCoy had the idea and of using railroads to move cattle, vaqueros developed essential techniques to cattle herding, cowboys began to move cattle by the thousands

Answer 66

vaqueros developed essential techniques to cattle herding, Joseph G McCoy had the idea and of using railroads to move cattle, cowboys began to move cattle by the thousands

Answer 67

Joseph G McCoy had the idea and of using railroads to move cattle, cowboys began to move cattle by the thousands, vaqueros developed essential techniques to cattle herding

Answer 68

vaqueros developed essential techniques to cattle herding, cowboys began to move cattle by the thousands, Joseph G McCoy had the idea and of using railroads to move cattle

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