Our Lady Queen of Peace
The New West Study Sheet
Chapter 19 (pgs.
542-566)
Vocabulary Words:
Tepee
Corral
Jerky
Vigilante
Transcontinental Railroad
Subsidy
Cattle Drive
Vaquero
Cow Town
Reservation
Sod House
Sodbuster
Cooperative
Whole sale
Inflation
People to Know:
Colonel John Chivington
Sitting Bull
Crazy Horse
Colonel George A. Custer
Geronimo
Helen Hunt Jackson
Questions to answer:
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What was life like on the plains for Indians?
Why were the buffalo important to the plains Indians?
What role did women play in Indian society?
What role did men play in Indian society?
How did the horse change the way of life of plains Indians?
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How did gold and silver change the west?
What problems were there in mining towns?
How did railroads help develop the west?
What caused ghost towns?
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What’s a cattle kingdom?
What are cowhands and what was it like to be a cowhand?
Why were cow towns important during the cattle boom?
What’s a cattle boom?
What happened to the cattle Kingdom?
16. What were some promises made to Indians?
17. What were some problems the Indians had?
18. Name and explain some conflicts between Indians and settlers.
19. How and why did the Indians way of life come to an end?
20. How were the promises broken?
21. What was the Massacre at Wounded Knee?
22. How did reformers try to help Indians?
23. What’s the Dawes Act and why was
it unsuccessful?
24. Why did farmers and other settlers
move west?
25. What was the Homestead Act?
26. What was the Oklahoma land rush?
27. Explain the difficulties Plains farmers endured?
28. How did the National Grange help
farmers?
29. What were the goals of the Populist
Party?
Teepee’s were used buy the
Plains Indians because they
were easy to move.