Ss: Unit 1 Westward Movement

Front 1

Population increased west of the Mississippi River after the Civil war because...(3 reasons)

Back 1

1) Migration of freed slaves
2) Homestead Act
3) Transcontinental Rail Road

Front 2

Describe the physical environment/surroundings of the Great Plains (5)

Back 2

1)Flatlands
2) Wind & water errosion
3) Low rainfall
4) Dust storms
5) Treeless wasteland

Front 3

Because of the physical environment of the Great Plains, what types of jobs did farmers and ranchers find that worked best on the Great Plains?

Back 3

Wheat farming
Beef/cattle raising (cows)

Front 4

What inventions were created to help people adapt (change) to life on the Great Plains? (6)

Back 4

1)Barbed wire
2) Steel plow
3) Dry farming
4) sod houses
5) windmills

Front 5

List 6 factors that supported the settlement (people living there) of the West...

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1) Transcontenintal RR
2) Adventure
3) Gold & Silver
4) Technological advances (barbed wire, steel, plow)
5) Opportunities for freed slaves
6) Homestead Act 1862 (160 acres)

Front 6

What year was the Homestead Act?

Back 6

1862

Front 7

What were the 3 requirements of the Homestead Act?

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1) 160 acres free land
2) live there 5 years
3) improve land by farming

Front 8

How many acres did the Homestead Act give?

Back 8

160

Front 9

List two major problems farmers and ranchers had with each other

Back 9

1) Cattle ate farmers crops
2) Cattle getting mixed between ranches

Front 10

How was the problem between the ranchers and farmers solved?

Back 10

Barbed wire

Front 11

Farmers faced many problems in the West. What were they? (2)

Back 11

1) Prices set by supply and demand
2) Mechanization

Front 12

What did landowners and the American Indians fight over on the Great Plains?

Back 12

Land

Front 13

Where did the U.S. Government send the American Indians when we took their land?

Back 13

Reservations

Front 14

Who is famous for saying, "I will fight no more forever!"?

Back 14

Chief Joseph

Front 15

Why was the Battle of Little Big Horn so important?

Back 15

Last Native American victory in the Great Plains

Front 16

Dowes Act

Back 16

A law, enacted in 1887, that distributed reservation land to individual owners.

Front 17

Year of Dowes Act

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1887 act

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Reservation

Back 18

Land set aside by the US Government for Native American tribes

Front 19

Sandy Creek Massacre

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An 1864 attack in which more than 150 Cheyenne men, women and children were killed by the Colorado militia

Front 20

Year of Sandy creek Massacre

Back 20

1864

Front 21

Geronimo

Back 21

(1829-1909) An Idian that said, "Once I moved about like the wind and now I surrender".

Front 22

Years Geronimo lived

Back 22

1829-1909

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Sitting Bull

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(1831-1890) "We did not give our country to you; you stole it."

Front 24

Years Sitting Bull lived

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(1831-1890)

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George A. Custer

Back 25

a hero for the Civil War and of other campaigns against Plains tribes

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Battle of the little Bighorn

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An 1876 battle in which the Sioux and the Cheyenne wiped out an entire force of US troops.

Front 27

Wounded knee Massacre

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The massacure by US soldiers of 300 unarmed Native Americans at Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota in 1890.

Front 28

Year of Wounded knee Massacre

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1890

Front 29

Describe Lincolns vision of reuniting the nation after the Civil War

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--Malice towards none, with charity for all let us bind up the nations wounds.
--Reconciliation
--Preservation of the union

Front 30

Describe Lee's vision of reuniting the nation after the Civil War

Back 30

Urged southerners to reconcile and not continue to fight.

President of Washington College.

Front 31

Describe Douglas' vision of reuniting the nation after the Civil War

Back 31

Fought for voting rights for African Americans

Spoke for human rights & civil liberties

Front 32

What was the Republican plan to reunify the US after the Civil War?

Back 32

Their desire to punish the south

Their establishment of military districts.

Front 33

What are the Civil War Amentments?

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--13th-ban slavery
--14th-grants citizenship to those born in the US
--15th-ensure the right to vote to all citizens of previous service

Front 34

What is the 13th Amendment?

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Bans slavery

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What is the 14th Amendment?

Back 35

Grants citizenship to those born in the US

Front 36

What is the 15th Amendment?

Back 36

Ensures the right to vote to all citizens of previous service

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Consequences of reconstruction policies and practices

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--Black codes-limited rights of former slaves (voting only if they passed a test)
--Southern military leaders barred from public office
--Military supervision by Northern soldiers
--Freedmans Bureau established
--Southerners resented
--Carpet Baggers

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Black Codes

Back 38

limited the rights of former slaves.

Allowed them to vote only if they passed a test.

Front 39

Significance of the election of 1876

Back 39

Federal troops removed from the south

Front 40

Political, social, & Economic legalicies of reconstruction

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--African Americans migrated north & west
--Share Cropping & Tenent Farming
--Jim Crow Laws (Black Codes)
--Southern Government used a variety of methods to keep African Americans from voting