Henretta chapter 16 study guide

Study Guide CH. 16: CONQUERING A CONTINENT (493-522)
KEY TERMS
Index cards should be created for the following key terms including time period relevant, definition, and significance in historical time period

• Homestead Act
• Protective tariff
• Trusts
• Munn v. Illinois
• Gold standard
• Bimetallic standard
• The Crime of 1873
• Greenbacks
• Bland-Allison Act
• Matthew Perry
• William Seward
• Morill Act
• Great Plains
• Cow country
• Long Drive
• Cattle towns
• Wild West
• Ghost town
• Great American Desert
• Barbed wire
• Exodusters
• Polygamy
• Dry farming
• Report on the Lands of the Arid Regions of the United States
• Yellowstone
• “Reservation wars”
• Sand Creek
• Blackfoot
• Dawes Severality Act
• Navajo
• Sitting Bull
• Battle of Little Big Horn (Custer’s Last Stand)
• “Buffalo Bill”
• Geronimo
• Ghost Dance Movement
• Battle of Wounded Knee

LEARNING OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS
Answer the following questions using the information gathered in the textbook. Please answer on a SEPARATE sheet of paper. Assignment will NOT be accepted if typed, or answered on this sheet of paper. Please PRINT this and attach to answers.
1. How and why did Republicans create an integrated economy during and after the Civil War?
2. What strategies did Americans utilize to deal with aridity in the West?
3. In what ways did mining, farming, and ranching shape the development of the West?
4. How did Native Americans respond to U.S. government policies? What strategies did Indians use for survival?

REVIEWING THE TOPIC
Before you take the quiz and/or unit exam you should be able to articulate the following ideas
• What factors helped advance the integration of the national economy after the Civil War?
• How did the post-Civil War nation’s economic goal shape its foreign policy? What role did William Seward play in advancing that policy?
• How did cattle ranching develop on the western grasslands and become part of the integrated national economy?
• What factors drew homesteaders to the Great Plains, and what role did they play in the Republicans’ vision for the post-Civil War nation?
• What environmental conditions did the homesteaders confront on the Great Plains? How did they respond to those conditions, and what were the consequences of that response?
• What prompted the U.S. government to set aside natural reserves such as Yellowstone? What were the results of that policy?
• How did the Civil War affect relations between the Sioux and their allies, white settlers, and the U.S. government?
• What effect did Grant’s Peace Policy and subsequent U.S. Indian policy have on native peoples? What role did white reformers play in those policies?
• What were the last acts of native people’s armed resistance? What were the consequences of that resistance?
• What survival strategies did conquered native peoples develop?