SSUSH12 Cowboys and indians

Which development had the greatest impact of territorial growth, economic growth, industrial growth

during the years after the Civil War? (SSUSH12a)

• Canals

• Airplanes

• Railroads

• Telephones

What was one of the GREATEST contributions Chinese immigrants made to the development of the

western United States? (SSUSH12a)

• They helped build a number of mining

  towns

• They played a significant role in the

  constructing the nation’s railroads

• They fought valiantly against hostile

  Native American tribes

• They helped populate the Northwest

  Territory

Chinese and Irish immigrants played a major role in the (SSUSH12a)

• Opening of Ellis Island

• Rapid growth of northern cities

• Construction of western railroads

• Organized labor movement

Which of the following contributed MOST to the forced removal of Native Americans from the Great

Plains from 1867 to 1890? (SSUSH12a,c)

• the desire to establish military posts

• the building of the Trans-Continental

  railroad

• the building of new canals

• the desire for more land to grow cotton

On May 10, 1869, in Promontory, Utah, the East and the West became connected by the completion of

(SSUSH12a)

• a telegraph line reaching from New York

  to San Francisco

• the Oregon Trail system

• the Transcontinental Railroad

• the stations that served the Pony Express

How did the growth of the western population and innovations in farming and ranching impact Plains

Indians? (SSUSH12b)

• Native American were moved off their

  land and into reservations

• Native Americans lead several successful

  court cases that allowed them to stay on

  their land

• Native Americans assimilated into the

  western population

• Native Americans developed farmers

  unions to protect their cattle

Which of the following technological advances played an important role in opening the Great Plains

in the late nineteenth century? (SSUSH12b)

• Advance irrigation techniques

• Corporate development of

  drought-resistant grains

• Steel plows, barbed wire and the

  mechanical reaper

• Scientific development of synthetic

  pesticides

In the period from 1860 to 1890, which experience was shared by most Plains Indians’ living in

western states? (SSUSH12c)

• They maintained control of their

  traditional lands

• They became farmers and small business

  owners

• They benefited economically from

  government police

• They were forced to live on reservations

He was the famous Sioux leader who fought the U.S. Army and led his people to a brief exile to

Canada before finally agreeing to settle on a reservation? (SSUSH12c)

• Metacom

• Chief Joseph

• Powhatan

• Sitting Bull

Battle of Wounded Knee, the mass killing of buffalo, and the completion of the transcontinental

railroad are most closely associated with the (SSUSH12c)

• rise of organized labor

• northern migration of African Americans

• building of the Erie Canal

• decline of the Plains Indians