Use
your notes, and textbook (Ch. 17)
1.
Describe what the American West frontier looked like in the
mid 1800’s.
2.
What was the main cause of the settlement of the West by
American settlers?
3.
Who worked as gold miners in the 1850’s? Where did they come
from?
4.
Why did large businesses usually benefit more from mining
than individual prospectors?
5.
Describe what it was like to work for a large company mine.
6.
What was the difference between how Plains Indians viewed
nature and how American settlers viewed nature?
7.
Describe at least three examples of Native American
resistance to American expansion in the West.
8.
What was the effect of settlers destroying buffalo herds?
9.
What was the only way some white Americans thought that
Native Americans could survive?
10. Why did the
Dawes Act fail?
11. How did
railroads help the cattle industry to grow?
12. Why was it
difficult to enforce the law in the West?
13. How did westerners
try to keep the peace?
14. Give three
examples how the government encouraged farmers to settle in the west.
15. What were
houses made of in the Great Plains? Why?
16. What was life
like for Plains farmers?
17. Why were women
granted more rights in the West than in the east?
18. What symbolized
the closing of the frontier?
19. According to
Frederick Jackson Turner, what did the American Frontier mean?
20. Why was the
Grange founded? What did it develop into?
21. How did farmers
get into so much debt?
22. What effect do
third parties have on presidential elections?
23. Why did farmers
want the government to use silver as well as gold for money?
24. What were the
proposals of the Populist party?
25. What did
McKinley’s victory in 1896 symbolize?
