Chapter 13 - Changes on the Western Frontier

Why did the policy of treating the Great Plains as a huge reservation change?

• White settlers wanted the land on the Plains

• NativeAmericans refused to remain on the Plains

• Native American population decreased and needed less land

• The Plains failed to meet the needs of the Native American peoples

Which was NOT central to the life and culture of the Plains Indians?

• the horse

• the buffalo

• the extended family

• land ownership

Former slaves from the South who settled on the Great Plains

• Nacirema

• Exodusters

• Populists

• Scalawags

Most responsible for bringing an end to the cattle industry

• the railroad

• barbed wire

• disappearance of the buffalo

• cattle trails

The Dawes Act was designed to benefit

• Native Americans

• white settlers

• both Native Americans & white settlers

• neither

Demand for beef in the East contributed to

• the invention of the Cowboy's way of life

• the end of the long drives

• the development of the Chisholm Trail

• the decline of the railroads

The purpose of the Homestead Act was to

• prevent African Americans from settling the West

• settle Native Americans in farming communities

• make money for the government

• encourage white families to develop the West

A Homesteader was a(n)

• settler recruited in Europe by a railroad company

• African American settler originally from the South

• settler who claimed land in Oklahoma by squatting on it

• settler who farmed land given by the federal government

A soddy was a(n)

• home made out of prairie turf and hills

• invention that increased farm production

• loan made to frontier farmers by the federal government

• person who bought frontier land hoping to resell it at a profit

This area was originally inhabited by highly developed Native Americans and became a source of conflict with white settlers

• The Ozarks

• The Great Plains

• The Sierra Nevadas

• The Great Basin