Chapter 19 - The West

When “booms” were followed by “busts,” what did boomtowns become?

• Bust Towns

• Dusty Towns

• Dead Towns

• Ghost Towns

For most of their history, how did the Plains Native Americans meet their needs for food, clothing, shelter, and tools?

• Farming

• fishing and mining

• hunting buffalo

• raising cattle and horses

Railroads changed how we measure time when _____.

• Congress set up delivery zones

• the cost of shipping needed to be standardized

• travel became faster

• the country was divided into time zones

Because few boomtowns had police, criminals were captured by ordinary people known as _____.

• Miners

• Vaqueros

• Vigilantes

• sodbusters

In which confrontation were more than 200 Lakota Sioux killed?

• Little Bighorn

• Sand Creek

• San Carlos

• Wounded Knee

Which dance celebrated the hoped-for day when white settlers would disappear and the buffalo would return?

• Ghost dance

• Warrior dance

• Sioux dance 

• Wovoka dance

The Populist Party wanted to replace the country’s gold-based currency system with a system based on which of the following?

• copper

• free silver

• diamonds

• subsidies

Why was Wounded Knee significant?

• It marked the end of armed conflict between the U.S. government and Native Americans.

• It was a battle over mining rights in Montana.

• It showed that Native Americans could not be forced onto reservations.

• It was a terrible massacre of U.S. soldiers.

Who was elected president in 1896?

• Grover Cleveland

• William Jennings Bryan

• James B. Weaver

• William McKinley

William Jennings Bryan was the presidential nominee of _____ in the 1896 election.

• both the Democratic and the Populist parties

• the Republican Party

• only the Democratic Party

• only the Populist Party