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This stated that black and white Americans could be segregated by race, but must be supplied with equal facilities. $100 Q1
1A What was Plessy v. Ferguson?
Q1 $200 This offered each Indian head of family 160 acres of farmland and 320 acres of grazing land.
1A $200 What was the Dawes Severalty Act?
Q1 $300 From 1865 to 1890, the frontier changed markedly. This offered whites 160 acres of land as long as they improved it and lived on it for 5 years.
1A $300 What was the Homestead Act ?
Q1 $400 The assassination of President Garfield served as an odd catalyst for Civil- service reform via the __________ of 1883.
1A $400 What was the Pendleton Act?
Q1 $500 This 1890 tariff was a protective tax that raised import duties to an average of 50%.
1A A $500 What was the McKinley Tariff?
2Q $100 Drawn to California by the Gold Rush, these people would face intense discrimination while working on the Central Pacific Railroad.
2A $100 Who were the Chinese laborers?
2Q $200 Faced with persistent poverty and overwhelming racism, these blacks left the South for the West.
2A $200 Who were the Exodusters?
2Q $300 According to this author, American character and culture were primarily influenced by the existence of the frontier and the westward movement.
2A $300 Who was Frederick Jackson Turner?
2Q $400 In the fight for equal rights, this black leader adopted a strategy that emphasized self-help and education.
2A $400 Who was Booker T. Washington?
2Q $500 Charles Guiteau, a paranoid schizophrenic assassinated this U.S. President.
2A $500 Who was James Garfield?
3Q $100 Homesteaders built this type of house on the treeless Great Plains.
A3 $100 What were Sod houses?
Q3 $200 This was one of the main agencies of westward expansion and brought thousands of settlers onto the frontier.
A3 $200 What were the Railroads?
Q3 $300 The completion of the transcontinental railroad would be symbolized by the driving of a final _______ into the connecting track.
A3 $300 What is the “golden spike?
Q3 $400 This system kept most practitioners of southern agriculture mired in sever poverty.
A3 $400 What was the crop-lien system?
Q3 $500 This refers to the belief that Native Americans should give up their way of life to become part of the “white” culture.
A3 $500 What is assimilation?
4 $100 The destruction of this deprived the Indians of their source of food, clothing and shelter. Q
A4 $100 What was the buffalo?
Q4 $200 The most famous of the Indian fights in which the Sioux defeated the U.S. Army and caused the Army to make it their mission to destroy the Plains Indians
A4 $200 What was the Battle of Little Bighorn?
Q4 $300 This last battle between the U.S. Army and the Indians is often recognized symbolically as the death of the Plains Indians culture.
A4 $300 What was the Battle of Wounded Knee?
Q4 $400 This was created by President Grant in the 1870s and advocated “civilizing” the Indians and ending the treaty system.
A4 $400 What was the “Peace Policy”?
Q4 $500 A religious movement swept through Plains Tribes in the 1890s. This was wrongly interpreted by whites as mystical and dangerous.
A4 $500 What was the “Ghost Dance” ?
5 $100 In the 1880s this was industrialized by James B. Duke.
A5 $100 What was the tobacco industry ?
Q5 $200 Cowboys engaged in cattle drives and lived on the ___________.
A5 $200 What was the open-range ?
Q5 $300 This probably can best be described as a society of commerce, cotton mills, and steel.
A5 $300 What was the New South?
Q5 $400 This was the major mineral being mined in the West.
A5 $400 What was Silver?
Q5 $500 Most of the New South’s iron and steel industry was concentrated in this area.
A5 $500 What was Northern Alabama?
FINAL FQ These two people were part of the popular myths of the west that turned the destruction of Plains Indians by white encroachment and warfare into dramatic and action-filled commercial entertainment.
FINAL FA Who were Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill?