Areas to Concentrate on for Chapter 14 Test

 

Frederick Jackson Turner

Turner’s Frontier Thesis

All of the Acts that dealt with the settlement of the West

Reasons for the end of the open range/cattle boom

Chief Joseph

Destruction of Native Americans

Myth/reality of the west

Bonanza Farms

Cash crops

Farmers’ problems

Government’s policy towards Native Americans

Mining/Farming & big business

Disagreements of federal government and Native Americans

Result of the Massacre at Wounded Knee

Cowboy fact

Inflation

Deflation

Election 1896

Buffalo importance

Reforms of Populists

Comstock Lode

Department of Agriculture

Helen Hunt Jackson

Nat Love

Reservations

Long Drive

Battle of Little Bighorn

Goldbugs/silverites

Ghost Dance/Wovoka

Dawes Act

Mary Lease

Women’s achievement in the west

Order of Native American battles

Abilene, Kansas

Boomers, sooners, squatters

Vaquero

Mexican influence on cowboy

Grange

Farmers Alliance

Election 1892

Speculators

Tariffs

Custer

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*Map areas on test:  Mountains (Bitteroot, Rocky, Cascade & Sierra Nevada), States (Wyoming, Missouri, Montana, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, Arizona, Nebraska, Kansas, Wisconsin, Oklahoma,  & New Mexico) and Rivers (Colorado, Mississippi, Arkansas, Missouri & Platte), Goodnight Loving Trail, Chisholm Trail, Battle locations (Wounded Knee, Big Horn, Sand Creek)

 

R/A test info under handouts

 

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