Transcript Chapter 19 Study Guide - Our Lady Of The Wayside

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Cooperative
Inflation
Subsidy
Corral
Lode
Reservation
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Comstock Lode affect on the West
What changed the way the Plains Indians
hunting
Threat to cowhands on cattle drives
Terms of the Fort Laramie Treaty
Dawes Act of 1887
 Reason for unsuccessfulness
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Role of buffalo in the lives of the Plains
Indians
Cow towns function during the cattle boom
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Exodusters move to Kansas – reasons
Problems caused by mining boom
Mens role in the society of Plains Indians
Reason for buffalo herds decline in the 1830’s
and 1840’s
Challenge to Plains farmers in the 1800’s
Victory for Native Americans over the cavalry
troops – where
Plains Indians ways of communication
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The Illinois State Farmers’ Association, April
1873
 “Resolved, That we regard it as the undoubted
power and the imperative duty of the legislature,
to pass laws fixing reasonable maximum rates for
freight and passengers…”
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Support this resolution – Who
Interpretation of the quote
Group to be allies with the Association
What would the Association support
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Challenge of foreign miners
Leader who surrendered ending formal
warfare
Reason for the Plains Indians using buffalo
Job to drive cattle – Who
Reason for buffalo extinction
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Problems Plains farmers faced because of the
climate
Texas longhorn cattle popularity – why
Women’s role in the Plains Indian society
Native Americans way of life demise – why
Gold and silver effect on development in the
west
Fort Laramie Treaty promised not kept
Homestead Act – what was the
encouragement
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How was life in a boomtown during a gold rush similar to life in a
cow town during Cattle Kingdom? Use at least two examples.
 Describe the steps farmers took and the organizations they
formed to promote political and economic reform between 1867
and 1896
 Describe the life that farm families led on the Great Plains in the
1870’s. Explain why they were called “sodbusters” and how they
endured hardships.
 Examine how movement of settlers to the west affected the
Indian way of life in the United States. Analyze the attempts of
Native American groups and the United States government to
settle disputes between Native Americans and settlers, giving at
least three examples that support your main idea.
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