Chapter 16 APUSH Review
What role did trade and industrial development play in the adoption of the gold standard by the U.S. government in 1873?
Adopting the gold standard opened the country to foreign investment.
Who were the Exodusters?
African Americans who migrated to Kansas in the late 1870s
What did the Homestead Act of 1862 do?
It gave 160 acres to applicants who occupied and improved them.
What explains the popularity of the Ghost Dance movement in the 1880s?
Its promise of Indian resurrection
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 did whites living in the West in the early 1860s undertake vigilante action against Native Americans on their own rather than relying on the federal government?
The government was preoccupied with the Civil War.
What did the 1868 Burlingame Treaty guarantee?
The rights of U.S. missionaries in China and terms for the emigration of Chinese laborers to the United States
Why did Indian agents and missionaries create Indian schools off the reservations as part of the effort to solve what was seen as the "Indian problem"?
They did not think they could re-educate Indian children when still living with their families.
Why did Sioux and Cheyenne Indians sign on with Buffalo Bill's entertainment group?
They sought to escape the harsh conditions on reservations.
What was the purpose of the Long Drive?
To bring cattle from Texas to railroad towns so they could be shipped east for food
The creation of Yellowstone National Park in 1872 was an early important step toward a public commitment to
preservation.
