Chapter 16 

· Describe how encroachment by white settlers on Indian lands on the Great Plains led to warfare. 

· Reformers considered the Dawes Severalty Act to be a humanitarian gesture. Why did it turn out to be so terrible for the Indians?

· What unfamiliar problems did farmers encounter on the Great Plains? What methods and devices helped solve these problems? 

· What were the grievances of the farmers and how were these complaints compounded by psychological factors?

· "Unlike earlier westward expansion, almost every aspect of the settlement of the final frontier was influenced by the transformation occurring within American industry and the American economy." Explain and illustrate this statement with the material about the development of farming, mining, and cattle raising.
 

Study Guide Chapter 17
FACTS, figures, people, and places.   Be prepared to identify, define, describe, and explain the significance of the people, places, and events listed below.

1.  Five Civilized Tribes
2.  John M. Chivington
3.  Sand Creek Massacre
4.  Fetterman Massacre
5.  Great Sioux Reserve
6.  Sitting Bull
7.  George Armstrong Custer
8.  Chief Joseph
9.  Chief Dull Knife
10.  Helen Hunt Jackson
11.  A CENTURY OF DISHONOR
12.  Dawes Severalty Act, 1887
13.  Carlisle Indian School
14.  Wovoka
15.  Ghost Dance
16.  Wounded Knee
17.  Homestead Act, 1862

18.  Timber Culture Act
19.  Desert Land Act
20.  Timber and Stone Act
21.  Pacific Railroad Act, 1862
22.  Grange
23.  Granger Laws
24.  WABASH v. ILLINOIS, 1886
25.  Interstate Commerce Act, 1887
26.  Horatio Alger
27.  Henry Comstock
28.  Comstock Lode
29.  Joseph G. McCoy 
30. Cattle Frontier
31. Sooners 
32.  Frederick Jackson Turner
33.  Ned Buntline
34.  William F. Cody (Buffalo Bill)

1.  what doomed the Plains Indians' traditional way of life
2.  policies toward Indians followed by the federal government and eastern reformers between 1840 and 1900 and their consequences
3.  the attraction of the Great Plains to settlers
4.  provisions of the Homestead Act  as well as how it worked in actual practice
5.  influence of the railroads on western development
6.  the lives of farmers on the Great Plains
7.  the Grange and its effects
8.  railroad regulation
9.  the Hispanic population of the Southwest after 1848
10.  important gold and silver strikes in the West
11.  the development and decline of the open range cattle industry
12.  contrasts between the West of the dime novels, the symbolic West of eastern intellectuals and artists, and the real West
13.  Frederick Jackson Turner's "frontier thesis"