DOING HISTORY WITH MR. JABLONSKY



17. The Last West and the New South, 1865-1900LEARNING OBJECTIVES1. Describe the three forces that stimulated the development of the West (Detailed answer that covers p.339-342). 2. According to Turner, what was the significance of the frontier? How has his thesis been challenged?3. Discuss the shifts in the federal government’s policy toward Native Americans from the 1830s to the 1930s.4. How were Mexican Americans affected in the aftermath of the Mexican War? What migration patterns existed?5. How did the government apply the principles of conservation? 6. What was new about the “new South?” What was not new about the “new South?” 7. How did the South create a segregated society? 8. Summarize how African Americans respond to segregated life in the South. 9. What problems did farmers face? 10. Whom did they often blame for their problems? 11. Examine how farmers tried to fight back. How successful were they? KEY TERMS BY THEME(KTBT), p 354. Select YOUR TOP KTBT from the lists. ID and significance of each.1. Comstock Lode2. Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)3. cowboys, vaqueros4. Great Plains5. Oklahoma Territory6. Frederick Jackson Turner; Frontier Thesis (1893)7. Reservations8. Indian Wars9. Sitting Bull 10. Crazy Horse11. George Custer12. Little Big Horn13. Chief Joseph and the Flight of the Nez Perce14. Helen Hunt Jackson; A Century of Dishonor 15. assimilationists16. Dawes Severalty Act (1887)17. Ghost Dance Movement18. Wounded Knee19. Indian Reorganization Act (1934)ConservationYellowstone National ParkForest Reserve Act of 1891; Forest Reserve Act of 1897ConservationistsPreservationistsJohn Muir; Sierra Club20. New South21. Crop lien system22. George Washington Carver23. Farmers’ Southern Alliance24. Colored Farmers’ National Alliance 25. Civil Rights Cases of 188326. Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)27. Jim Crow laws28. grandfather clause; poll tax; literacy test29. Ida B. Wells30. Booker T. Washington31. National Negro Business League 32. National Grange movement33. cooperatives34. Granger laws35. Munn v. Illinois (1877)36. Wabash v. Illinois (1886)37. Interstate Commerce Act (1886)38. farmer’s alliance39. National Alliance40. Ocala Platformbuffalo soldiers – Name given to African American cavalrymen who fought Indians along the Great Plains in the years following the Civil Warexodusters – Name given to African Americans who fled the South after Reconstruction for freedom in Kansas and OklahomaHISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES: Stages of Frontier Development p 353HistorianMain Points & EvidenceTurnerLaterCrononMultiple-Choice Questions, p 355-7. Question & Letter AnswerResponse Answer Document Significance1. The key idea in the excerpt is that Grady believesDoc. 1-32.Which of the following best demonstrates Henry Grady’s vision for the South?3. Henry Grady’s comments best express the viewpoint of which group of people?4. The Ocala Platform resulted from a protest movement that primarily involvedDoc. 4-65. The economic reasoning behind the Ocala Platform assumes that6. The Ocala Platform proved an important link between which of the following groups?7. Harlan’s opinion goes against the majority opinion on the Supreme Court thatDoc. 7-88. Harlan’s opinion was consistent with the beliefs expressed by theShort Answer. Bullet point answer. Use KTBT whenever possible in responses. Highlight ALL KTBT terms in response. 358-359.1a. Briefly explain an event from the Gilded Age that supports that “the farmers were up in arms.”1b. Briely explain what evidence would support the statement about farmers in this era that “His burdens are heavier…”1c. Explain what the writer most likely had in mind when he stated “he is beginning to fear…”2. Using the excerpt, answer a, b, c2a. Briefly explain TWO regional characteristics of the South that support Turner’s assertion that U.S. was a “vast and varied…”2a. Briefly explain TWO regional characteristics of the West that support Turner’s assertion that U.S. was a “vast and varied…”2b. Briefly explain ONE reason why Turner was concerned with the closing and disappearance of the frontier that was not stated in the above.3. Using the excerpt, answer a, b, c3a. Based on this excerpt and your knowledge, briefly explain ONE argument made by Booker T. Washington to improve race relations in the South.3b. Briefly explain TWO forms of discrimination that African Americans experienced at this time in the South.4. Answer a, b, c4a. Briefly explain ONE change in the South between 1877-1900 that reflected the policies of the New South agenda.4b. Briefly explain ONE way the Southern economy did not change during this era..4c. Briefly explain ONE factor that kept the South from making more progress during this period.Thinking as a Historian: Statements about evidence. Which 2 statements most clearly include evidence to support the claim it makes? ................
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