APUSH Chapter 16
What did the United States purchase from Russia in 1868
Alaska
How did the United States persuade the Japanese to open trade relations
By wielding naval power to persuade the Japanese to sign a treaty
Which were the motives of Senator Henry L. Dawes of Massachusetts in writing the Dawes Severalty Act
He was eager for reform and hoped to improve the lives of Native Americans
What explains the popularity of the Ghost Dance movement in the 1880s
Its promise of Indian resurrection
Who was the one-armed Civil War veteran who wrote a famous book on western land conditions in 1879
John Wesley Powell
Which tribe openly refused to settle on a reservation in the mid-1870s
Lakota Sioux
Why was the General Mining Act of 1872 not useful in developing the West despite its generous grant of mineral resources to those who discovered them
Large-scale operations were needed to extract many minerals
Which of the following regions was the last that Native Americans ceded to the United States
The area of the North Dakota Territory to the east of the Missouri river
One critic called the Comstock Lode "the tomb of the forests of the Sierra." Why was that phrase apt
The mining industry ravaged the landscape
Why did new prairie homesteaders often spend their first winter in hillside dugouts rather than houses
The plains lacked the lumber for housing construction
What was a major difference between the settlement of the Great Plains and of mining camps and cattle ranches
There were proportionately more women on the plains
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
What was the purpose of the Long Drive
To bring cattle from Texas to railroad towns so they could be shipped east for food
For what reason had states chartered corporations in the early nineteenth century
To fulfill specific public purposes
How did Native American traditions develop over time after the end of armed resistance
Traditional customs remained alive in private and secret settings
Who was the expansionist secretary of state during the 1860s that negotiated the purchase of Alaska from Russia
William Seward
Congress in 1864 set aside ten square miles of which valley for public use
Yosemite
What did Sitting Bull wish for his children by 1885
a "white" education
the United States decided to finance railroads through
private investors (unlike Europe)
What idea from Frederick Jackson Turner's "frontier thesis" do historians reject today
white settlers claimed empty land
Why did Mormon women argue that giving them the right to vote in Utah Territory would benefit the Mormon community
because they would out-vote the non-Mormon miners
What distinguished the story of "Deadwood Dick" whose stories were published as The Life and Adventures of Nat Love in 1907
he was born into slavery in Tennessee
What ended the Long Drive of cattle from Texas to Missouri in the 1870s
railroads
Which technology permitted homesteaders in the West to plant crops in the prairie in the 1860s and 1870s
steel plows
Which act of 1887 led to the break-up and sale of Indian reservation lands
the Dawes Severalty Act
Which trail was a private road under army protection that served as the main route into Montana in the 1860s and 1870s
the bozeman trail
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
Exodusters were blacks who left which region to seek a better life in the 1870s
the south
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