2. Chapter 17: The Last West & The New South, 1865-1900
The Frontier
Indian Wars
Farming Frontier
A. American Issues
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Final Jeopardy

3. The region between the Missouri River and the Rocky Mountains; many people believed it to be uninhabitable because it was so dry
What is the Great American Desert

4. Rich deposits of silver were discovered in Nevada in 1859
What is Comstock Lode

5. American historian who claimed that the population would continue to expand as long as there was land available to move into
Who is Frederick Jackson Turner

6. The broad expanse of flat land, west of the Mississippi and east of the Rocky Mountains
What is the Great Plains

7. This territory was once set aside for Native Americans but was thrown open for American settlement in 1889
What is the Oklahoma Territory

8. General Custer and his men were wiped out by a coalition of Sioux and Cheyenne Indians led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse here
What is Little Big Horn

9. He led the Nez Perce North during hostilities between the tribe and the United States Army in 1877
Who is Chief Joseph

10. The Sioux, convinced they had been made invincible by magic, were massacred by US troops here
What is Wounded Knee

11. This act tried to dissolve Indian tribes by redistributing the land; designed to forestall growing Indian poverty, it resulted in many Indians losing their land to speculators
What is the Dawes Severalty Act (1887)

12. Reversal of the Dawes Severalty Act, it secured certain rights to Native Americans and returned the power of self-government on a tribal basis
What is the Indian Reorganization Act (1934)

13. This invention helped to fence in cattle in the vast open spaces of the Great Plains, where lumber was scarce
What is barbed wire

14. A system in which farmers borrowed money against their crops, using their harvests as a payment on the debt
What is the Crop Lien System

15. What is the National Grange Movement
A movement that began with farmers who were angered by prices and other alienating conditions; they would ally to create a national alliance that fought for farmers’ rights
What is the National Grange Movement

16. It is the large-scale production of goods and crops to be sold to the public
What is commercial farming

17. This act required railroads to be “reasonable and just;” a five-member board was created to monitor the business operation of carriers transporting goods between the states
What is the Interstate Commerce Act (1886)

18. These created a caste system in the south, included laws that would prevent blacks from voting and create segregated facilities
What are Jim Crow Laws

19. This clause allowed blacks to vote on the basis that their grandfather had had the right to vote as well; a method of preventing African Americans from voting
What is the Grandfather Clause

20. What is the National Negro Business League
Organized by Booker T Washington, established 320 chapters across the United States to support businesses owned and operated by African Americans
What is the National Negro Business League

21. What are the Civil Rights Cases of 1883
Cases in which the Supreme Court ruled that Congress could not pass legislation against the racial discrimination practiced by private citizens (included railroads, hotels, and other public businesses)
What are the Civil Rights Cases of 1883

22. 1896 landmark case; the Court held up a Louisiana law requiring “separate but equal accommodations” and that it did not violate the 14th amendment
What is Plessy v. Ferguson

23. Former slave who graduated from Hampton Institute, established an industrial and agricultural school in Tuskegee, Alabama, which became the largest and best-known industrial school in the nation
Who is Booker T Washington

24. He formed the International Migration Society in 1894 with the goal to help black Americans emigrate to Africa
Who is Henry Turner

25. Who is George Washington Carver
A black chemist and director of agriculture at Tuskegee Institute; invented many new uses for peanuts, sweet potatoes, and soy beans
Who is George Washington Carver

26. She was the editor of a black newspaper, campaigned against lynching and Jim Crow laws; death threats and destruction of her printing press forced her to carry on her work in the north
Who is Ida B Wells

27. She was a muckraker whose book, A Century of Dishonor, exposed the unjust manner in which the United States government had treated the Indians, and protested the Dawes Severalty Act
Who is Helen Hunt Jackson

28. Frontier Restrictions

29. This act, passed in 1834, banned any white citizen from passing into Indian country without a license
What is the Indian Intercourse Act