Ch.14 Review

Match the following

• Raced across Indian territory to stake land claims

• Exodusters

• Led the U.S. Calvary at the Battle of Little Bighorn

• Land Speculators

• Bought up large areas of land in the hope of selling later for a profit

• boomers

• Migrated to western lands to escape racial violence faced in the south

• Chief Sitting Bull

• Led the Sioux in battle after the federal government allowed miners to build a road

• General Custer

Match the following

• People who travel from place to place, usually following food sources, don't live in one location

• The Great Plains

• Events and conditions that either force people to move elsewhere or strongly attract them to do so

• Push-pull factors

• A rise in the price of goods

• Deflation

• The vast grassland between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains

• Inflation

• A drop in the price of goods

• Nomads

Match the following

• The federal government's plan for the makeup and quantity of the nation's money supply

• Assimilation

• Exaggerated or oversimplified descriptions of reality

• Stereotypes

• The process by which one society becomes a part of another

• Homesteaders

• Those who farmed claims under the Homestead Act

• Monetary Policy

What happened at the Massacre at Wounded Knee?

• American Soldiers killed more than 200 unarmed Sioux

• General Custer's calvary was completely wiped out

• The Nez Perce fought for possession of their homeland

• The last buffalos of the Great Plains were killed

In the west, the combination of big business and new agricultural techniques resulted in

• placer mines

• bonanza farms

• the long drive

• reservations

The Interstate Commerce Act was passed to

• end the cattle boom

• place Native Americans on reservations

• regulate railroad rates and practices

• tax business profits made in interstate trade