Chapter 17 Review Sheet

What happened to the native Americans, Chinese miners and laborers, and Mexican herdsmen
as white Americans expanded across America?

What happened to these tribes: the Ute, Apache, Navajo?

Why was the buffalo so important to native Americans?

What was the Chivington Massacre?

What was the Fetterman Massacre?

What happened at the Little Bighorn River in 1876?

What happened at Wounded Knee?

What was the Dawes Severalty Act?

What happened to the buffalo?

Why did Americans move west between 1870 and 1900?

What was the journey out west like?

What was the Homestead Act of 1862?

What began the mining boom?

What were race relations like out west?

What was cattle ranching and where was it dominant?

What were cattle trails? Famous ones?

What was farming like on the Great Plains?

What new farm inventions helped farmers?

What was the Grange?

When did the farming boom end?

How was the Oklahoma district settled?