What were the four most important inventions of the 1800s that promoted settlement of the Midwest?

5. What were the four most important inventions of the 1800s that promoted settlement of the Midwest?

26. Steel plow

27. What invention led to the end of the open-range in the West?

28. Barbed wire

29. Where was General Custer killed?

30. Little Big Horn

31. What ritual did the Sioux Indians believe would bring back the buffalo and restore their land?

32. Ghost Dance

33. What is the name of the Alabama area characterized by large areas of fertile, black soil?

34. Black Belt

35. What term describes the belief that the U.S. had a God- given right to expand from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean?

36. Manifest Destiny

37. What term describes the belief that Native Americans should adopt European customs and beliefs?

38. Assimilation

39. What act required that Native Americans adopt the policy of assimilation?

40. Dawes Act

41. Where did the slaughter of Sioux men, women, and children occur by U.S. Army soldiers who were trying to arrest Sitting Bull?

42. Battle of Wounded Knee

43. What is the economic theory that allows individuals to use both silver and gold as currency?

44. Bimetallism

45. The Populist Party in the late 1800’s favored the use of what type of currency?

46. Greenbacks

47. What was the name of African-American soldiers who fought on the Western frontier against Native Americans?

48. Buffalo Soldiers

49. Why were standard time zones created?

50. To make the railroad system run more smoothly.