topic 2 - test review
the government and president during the gilded age could be described as?
"weak"
what is the dawes act?
a 1887 law that divided reservation land into private family plots.
what was the primary effect of native americans being confined to reservations?
it changed their way of life + they faced poverty
what did the gridlock between parties in congress and the white house in the late 1800s lead to?
lead to nothing being passed: no laws, no bills, no regulations
a native american like crazy horse views on manifest destiny would be what?
they were against the manifest destiny; they believed that no one owned the land.
why did chief joseph of the nez perce finally agree to surrender to the u.s government?
to save his people
why was sod used by homesteaders on the great plains?
used to build homes
why did the government outlaw practices of traditional native american ceremonys?
wanted to get rid of Native americans traditions
what was the sand creek massacre?
was an 1864 incident in which colorado militia attacked a camp of cheyenne and arapho indians, some of who were under u.s army protection
what group of people was negatively effected by Horace Greeley telling people to move west?
Native Americans
what group of people faced the most discrimination on the west coast?
chinese immigrants
what type of people supported the populist party?
common people like farmers
how was william jennings byan different from the majority of other presidential candidates of the era?
he was part of the populist party
what did william jennings bryan do during the gilded age?
he was the "spokesman" for the populist party.
what was the basic life of most native americans?
most were rewaged by poverty
president grant is remembered as a corrupt president because he?
people in his administration that he appointed made bribes.
what solution did the populist party propose to solve the problem of crop prices not meeting their cost of production?
they wanted to coin silver
farmers believed that they were getting unfairly exploited by whom?
the business men
who did the populist party want to control the cost of railroad shipping?
the government
what group of people was setting up monopolies?
the industrialists/ "fat cats"
who did Horace Greeley encourage to move west and take the homestead act?
the poor
how did the federal gov. affect the practice of mining the west?
they provided land and approved new patterns for new inventions.
