Ch 8 SG

American History

 

  1. What is the difference between place and quartz mining?

 

 

  1. In what areas were gold and silver found in the western US?

 

 

  1. On whose ground did cattle graze in the early days of the old west?

 

 

  1. What were the long drives and what was their purpose?

 

 

  1. What factors helped to bring the long drives to an end?

 

 

  1. What did the Homestead Act do?

 

 

  1. How did early Plains settlers get around the wood shortage?

 

 

  1. What other kind of problems did the early Plains settlers face?

 

 

  1. What crop became #1 in the Great Plains? Why?

 

 

  1. What factors later caused problems for the Plains farmers?

 

 

  1. What generally caused conflict between Plains settlers and the Plains Indians?

 

 

  1. Who were major leaders of the Lakota Sioux?

 

 

  1. What was Fetterman’s Massacre? What did it lead to?

 

 

  1. Why did there become a buffalo shortage?

 

 

  1. What caused the events at Little Bighorn?
  2. What was the last of the major events in the Indian Wars? What was at issue here?

 

 

  1. What was “assimilation” in regards to the Native Americans?

 

 

  1. What was the Dawes Act? Did it work? Why not?