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APUS: Chapter 26

Pages 604 – 624

1) What ores were found in the various “rushes” in Colorado and Nevada?

2) What were some of these deposits called?

3) What was the status of women on the frontier during the late 19^th century? Why was it different than back east?

4) Where were the main assembly points and packing cities of the cattle drive era?

5) How did the railroad affect the cattle drives?

6) How successful were the homesteaders? Why?

7) What drove many people to the prairies during the 1870s in spite of the warnings of little rain?

8) How successful were these new areas?

9) Explain the concept of “dry farming” and how it would contribute to the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.

10) Explain why 1890 is considered a watershed year.

11) Explain the “safety valve” theory of the frontier. (pg. 611)

12) Do you think that it was valid or not? Explain.

13) Explain the concept of “farm as factory.”

14) How did deflation of the currency “doom the debtor?” How exactly, did the currency’s loss of value affect the farmers of the US?

15) What else “conspired” to keep American farmers poor?

16) Explain what the Grange was, what its policies were, and how it hoped to help the farmers of the late 19^th century.

17) Describe the Farmers’ Alliance, its policies and goals.

18) Explain the platform (policies and goals) of the Populists.