ch 18 5th

How did the transcontinental railroads help spread white settlement in the West?

• government gave settlers lands

• the railroad made it easier

• people were starting to get over populated

Check the ways in which the life of blacks changed after the Civil War.

• Congress proclaimed all slaves free.

• Congress and the states passed two amendments to the Constitution. One said that black people have the same rights as white people. The other said that black people have the right to vote.

• Fearful that blacks in South (who had the right to vote in Southern states even before the amendment mentioned above) would rule over them and, perhaps, wreak vengeance on them, white southerners formed secret groups like the Ku Klux Klan to frighten blacks. In many cases, men in these groups beat up and even killed black people.

• Eventually, most blacks in the South were not permitted to vote. In both the North and the South, black people suffered great injustices.

  
  

Many Southerners suffered from poverty and hunger. Radical Republicans in Congress wanted to punish southern whites for the war. Thus:· many southern whites were not permitted to vote· Northerners, called Carpetbaggers, came south and brought up plantations and other property that white Southerners were too poor to hold onto. These Carpetbaggers could vote and serve in state and local governments, when many Southerners were forbidden to.

• True

• False

passed by Congress in 1862, gave settlers 160 acres of land if they paid a small fee for it and lived on it for five years.

• Homestead Act

• Sedation Act

• Treaty of Ghent

The Plains Indians were angry because the railroads ran across lands on which Indians hunted buffalo. These lands the Indians considered their own. Train engines also frightened away buffalo upon which the Indians relied for food, clothing, and shelter.

• true

• false

How did the U.S. government make peace with the Indians?

• The government tried to pacify the Indians by giving them certain lands in return for lands on which the railroads could run.

• The government tried to pacify the Indians by giving them a large payment for the land.

• The government tried to pacify the Indians by giving them new rights

Who thought the government had not treated Indians justly; in particular, he said, it had not kept its treaties with the tribes and had employed greedy and dishonest government agents to deal with the Indians?

• Father De Smet

• General Custer

• Chief Joseph

Why was Custer defeated at the Battle of the Little Bighorn?

• He was outnumbered

• He ran out of ammunition

• He was caught of guard

Why did Chief Joseph finally agree to move his people from the Wallowa Valley to a reservation in Idaho?

• There was no more food

• He was told they would force him off

• He was paid

Who led his tribe on the warpath after he had been accused of kidnapping a white child and after a U.S. army lieutenant had his wife and nephews killed.

• Chief Joseph

• Chief Cochise

• Sitting Bull