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APUSH- AMSCO Period 6 Questions and
Answers 100% Correct
Great American Desert - ANSWER - The vast arid territory which includes the Great Plains, the
Rocky Mountains, and Western Plateau (this is in between the Mississippi River and Pacific
Coast) was named this.


Mining frontier - ANSWER - The western states which had series of gold strikes including,
Colorado, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Arizona, and South Dakota.


Comstock Lode - ANSWER - The major U.S. discovery of gold and silver (this produced over
$340 million in gold and silver by 1890) which was responsible for Nevada entering the Union in
1864.


Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) - ANSWER - Prohibited further immigration of Chinese laborers to
the U.S. in order to reduce competition for mining gold. This was also the first major act of
Congress to restrict immigration on the basis of race and nationality.


Cattle drives - ANSWER - Rounding cattle up and moving them from one area to another by
cowboys.


Barbed wire - ANSWER - Homesteaders had used these fencings to cut off the cattle from
accessing formerly open range.


Farming frontier - ANSWER - The Great Plains was mainly the farming frontier. Settlement in
the farming frontier was encouraged by the Homestead Act (which gave 160 acres of public land
free to any family that settled on it for a period of five years).


Indian Reorganization Act (1934) - ANSWER - Promoted the reestablishment of tribal
organization and culture.


Crop lien system - ANSWER - A credit system that became widely used by farmers in the U.S.
after the Civil War in the South. This system was a way for farmers to get credit before the

, planting season by borrowing against the value for anticipated harvests. After the crops were
harvested, they would use it to pay back their loan.


George Washington Carver - ANSWER - An African American scientist at Tuskegee Institute in
Alabama, who promoted the growing of such crops as peanuts, sweet potatoes, and soybeans.
He played an important role in shifting southern agriculture toward a more diversified base.


Tuskegee Institute - ANSWER - A private, historically black university located in Tuskegee,
Alabama.


Great Plains - ANSWER - The broad expanse of prairie and steppe which lie in the west of the
Mississippi River and east of the Rocky Mountains (Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska,
New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming are apart of the
plains).


Oklahoma Territory - ANSWER - Was once set for Native Americans, but was then open for
settlement in 1889.


Frederick Jackson Turner; frontier thesis - ANSWER - He was a historian who created the
frontier thesis. His thesis explained that the frontier experience had promoted a habit of
independence and individualism. It was also said that the frontier had also acted as a powerful
social leveler, breaking down class distinctions and ensuring social and political democracy
(basically the thesis says that the frontier life makes Americans become more inventive and
practical-minded).


Indian Wars - ANSWER - Wars fought between the Americans and Native Americans due to the
settlement of miners, cattlemen, and homesteaders in the Native American lands.


Helen Hunt Jackson, A Century of Dishonor - ANSWER - American writer who wrote this A
Century of Dishonor, which was about the injustice done to Native Americans . This book
became a best-seller and created sympathy for Native Americans and motivated many to help
Native Americans propose assimilation as a solution


Assimilationists - ANSWER - Humanitarians who emphasized formal education and training and
conversion to Christianity.

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