Link to Quizlet Set
Key Terms:
- Farmers' Hardships
- The Grange
- Munn v. Illinois
- Wabash v. Illinois
- Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)
-Farmers' Alliances
-Money Supply Issue
-Populist Party (People's Party)
-Mary Elizabeth Lease
-Panic of 1893
-Election of 1896
-William Jennings Bryan
-Frederick Jackson Turner
Link to The West Slideshow
We will also be watching a video from the America: Story of Us series entitled "Heartland".
Below is a viewing guide to go along with the video.
America: The Story of Us Ep. 6: “Heartland”
The Transcontinental Railroad 00:00 - 10:46
- How long did it take to journey across the U.S. by wagon?
- What was the big obstacle to the transcontinental railroad?
- How did the government pay for the railroad?
- How does Han Lai Wo (the Chinese immigrant) manage to create a better life for himself in America?
The Great Plains 10:47 - 25:48
- What did you need to claim 160 acres under the Homestead Act?
- What major problem hits the farms on the Great Plains every year?
- Aside from tornadoes, what major problem hits the people of the Great Plains?
- What do the rivermen do?
- What were the buffalo hides used for back East?
- Why did Natives prefer bows to firearms for buffalo hunts?
- By 1889, how many wild buffalo remained in the U.S.?
Cowboys 25:49 - 35:24
- Where did the knowledge of how to be cowboys come from?
- What was the racial makeup of the cowboys?
- “Abraham Lincoln may have freed all men, but ______________ made them equal.”
- What brought the cowboy era to an end?
Natives and New Technologies 35:24 - 43:54
- How did Custer find the Sioux?
- What triggered the massacre at Wounded Knee?
- How did they solve the problem of scheduling trains with different times?
- What idea came from Sears selling pocket watches?
- In 20 years, the U.S. population doubles to _______________ million.
