APUSH Chapter 16

What did Sitting Bull wish for his children by 1885?

A "white" education

Technological innovation and the global expansion of export agriculture had what impact on farmers working on the plains in the late 1800s?

A drop in crop prices

What did the United States purchase from Russia in 1868?

Alaska

The purposeful destruction of which of the following opened the Great Plains to settlement?

Bison

Why did Great Britain agree to pay the United States $15.5 million in damages after the Civil War?

British shipyards had built Confederate raiding vessels such as CSS Alabama.

How did the United States persuade the Japanese to open trade relations?

By wielding naval power to persuade the Japanese to sign a treaty

In the largest mass hanging in U.S. history, President Abraham Lincoln ordered the execution of thirty-eight men from which group?

Dakota Sioux

Republicans in the 1880s were staunch advocates of what economic policy?

High tariffs

What did the Homestead Act of 1862 do?

It gave 160 acres to applicants who occupied and improved them.

Which tribe openly refused to settle on a reservation in the mid-1870s?

Lakota Sioux

Which issue distinguished homesteading in the plains from pioneer farming in Iowa or Oregon in the antebellum years?

Land speculation

What was one consequence of the shift to steam-powered vessels in the transoceanic trade in the 1850s?

Merchants and the U.S. Navy needed ports where they could refuel.

Which two languages became the primary languages spoken in parts of Minnesota and the Dakotas by the mid-1880s?

Norwegian and Swedish

Which mode of transportation helped integrate the national economy after the Civil War?

Railroad

The nation's monetary policy between 1865 and 1880 can best be described as deflationary, which means policymakers did what?

Sharply limited the nation's money supply

Which technology permitted homesteaders in the West to plant crops in the prairie in the 1860s and 1870s?

Steel plows

The major silver discovery made in Nevada in 1859 was known by what name?

The Comstock Lode

Which act of 1887 led to the break-up and sale of Indian reservation lands?

The Dawes Severalty Act

What federal department did Congress create in 1862 to conduct research and provide advice to farmers?

The Department of Agriculture

What was the name of the Native American religious movement that drew upon and combined significant Christian and native elements?

The Ghost Dance

Who was in charge of Yellowstone National Park prior to the creation of a national park service?

The U.S. Army

What was the significance of the Battle of the Little Big Horn?

The battle overshadowed the white massacre of Indians at Sand Creek.

What was the basis for the development of the Far West of the United States?

The extraction of natural resources

Why were Republicans so eager to fund the construction of a transcontinental railroad in the 1860s?

They saw the failure to connect different regions via the railroad as one cause of the Civil War.

For what reason had states chartered corporations in the early nineteenth century?

To fulfill specific public purposes

Why did William Seward urge Congress to purchase refueling stations in the Pacific and the Caribbean?

To support growing trade with Asia and Latin America

What was the status of land ownership in New Mexico and Arizona in the late 1800s?

Traditional land claims from Spanish colonial times were rejected in favor of new claims by Anglos.

What event highlighted federal incompetence in regard to Indian relations in 1870, early in Ulysses S. Grant's presidency?

U.S. troops killed over 170 Blackfoot Indians in Montana.

What prompted the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890?

White efforts to suppress the Ghost Dance

Exodusters were blacks who left which region to seek a better life in the 1870s?

south