CHAPTER 13 STUDY GUIDE
Mrs. Johnson American Studies IIC
CHANGES ON THE WESTERN
FRONTIER
ISSUES TO UNDERSTAND
Answer the following
in your notebooks:
Section One
1. Describe the
culture of the Native Americans living on the
2. Identify at least
3 significant differences between the culture and customs of the
Native Americans and
those of the settlers on the
3. Explain some of
the reasons settlers moved west during the late 1800s.
4. In what ways did
the American government encourage the settlement of the
West?
5. How were Native
Americans restricted by the American government?
6. What happened on
the Bozeman Trail?
7. Describe events
between the army, settlers and the Native Americans in the 1860s
and 1870s.
8. What was the Dawes
Act of 1887? Why was it significant?
9. What was the goal
of the education system established for Native Americans? Why did many
white
Americans think it was appropriate? How
would you react to it if you were from one of the tribes?
10. What happened at
**Be able to discuss
Chief Joseph from our film in class…
Section Two
11. Discuss G.D.
Burrows’ recollections of his days as a cowboy.
12. What are your
images of cowboys?
13. Why were cowboys
needed and what types of work did they do?
14. How did the
cattle industry develop? How did Mexican culture influence it?
15. How did the
growth of America, both in size and population, effect the cattle
industry and the
demand for beef?
16. Compare the
reality of most cowboys’ life with some of the myths that
surrounded
cowboys.
17. What was the Long
Drive?
18. What were some of
the factors that led to the end of the Cattle Frontier?
19. How did barbed
wire change the ranching industry of the Old West?
Daily Life
20. What was the role
of gold in luring people Wset in the late
1800s?
21. Describe the
experiences of most families in moving west to seek their fortune as
gold miners.
Section Three
22. Discuss the role
of railroads in settling the West.
23. List at least 2
ways the government encouraged white and African Americans to
go west.
24. What was the
Turner Thesis? Why was it important?
25. Explain some of
the hardships that plains settlers endured.
26. How did women
contribute to the settling of the west?
27. List 4 inventions
that helped to tame the prarie, and how
each helped.
28. What were the
Section Four
29. Why was Mary
Elizabeth Lease upset? Or…how did the economic cycle the farmers were
caught in
hurt them?
30. What happens
during a period of inflation?
31. How did deflation
hurt farmers?
32. What was the
Grange?
33. Explain what
Populism is.
34. What did the
“Gold Bugs” want…and who represented them?
35. What did the “Silverites”
want…and who spoke for them?
36. Who do you
sympathize with?
VERY IMPORTANT: Who
is going to win the World Series this
year????
Correct answer
>>>>THE RED
SOX