The following terms will be assigned for homework and classwork throughout this chapter.  Refer to the numbers below and complete them according to the schedule provided in your homework plans.  They MAY BE A QUIZ on any or all items WITHOUT NOTICE.  It is your responsibility to keep up with the work on time.  Each item is worth 1 point.  The point will be awarded for thoroughness not for simply having a quick identification.  You should be able to answer the following in each answer: who what where and when and also establish the historical context and consequences.

 


1.            Indian subsistence cultures

2.            slaughter of the buffalo

3.            United States government’s reservation policy

4.            the Battle of Little Big Horn

5.            George Manypenny and Helen Hunt Jackson

6.            Canada’s Indian Policy

7.            the Women’s National Indian Association and the Indian Rights Association

8.            the Dawes Severalty Act

9.            The Indian Bureau of the Interior Department

10.        the Ghost Dance movement Wovoka

11.        the Massacre at Wounded Knee

12.        the Clapp rider to the Indian appropriations bill

13.        mining syndicates

14.        the Timber and Stone Act

15.        mining and lumber communities

16.        the home mission movement

17.        women and nonwhites in frontier society

18.        John Muir

19.        the omnibus bill

20.        the Clanton family and Johnny Ringo

21.        the Earp brother, “Bat” Masterson and “Doc” Holliday

22.        the shootout at the OK Corral

23.        riparian rights v. prior appropriation

24.        California irrigation legislation of 1887

25.        reclamation

26.        the Newlands Reclamation Act

27.        standard time zones

28.        westward migration, 1870-1890

29.        life of the plain

30.        the Great Blizzard of 1888

31.        grasshopper plagues

32.        the Homestead Act of 1862

33.        mail-order houses and Rural Free Delivery

34.        mechanization of agriculture

35.        the Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862 and 1890

36.        the Hatch Act of 1887

37.        dry farming

38.        Luther Burbank and George Washington Carver

39.        the ranching frontier

40.        the long drive

41.        open range ranching

42.        barbed wire

43.        the crop-lien system

44.        southern backcountry farmers

45.        lynching of African –Americans

46.        the poll tax

47.        U.S. v. Reese

48.        the “Mississippi Plan”

49.        the grandfather clause

50.        the Civil Rights Cases (1883)

51.        Plessy v. Ferguson and Cummins v. County Board of Education

52.        Jim Crow Laws

53.         The southern textile industry

54.        the southern tobacco industry

55.        the New South