Hist 1302 UTD (Schulze) Exam 1
Questions and Correct Answers.
Edwin Stanton - Answer *Popular Secretary of War who is fired by Johnson and leads to
Johnson's impeachment
Homestead Act - Answer *1862 - Provided free land in the West to anyone willing to settle
there and develop it. Encouraged westward migration.
Las Gorras Blancas - Answer *Night riders that vandalized in protest of westward expansion
in New Mexico
Sand Creek Massacre - Answer *an attack on a village of sleeping Cheyenne Indians by a
regiment of Colorado militiamen on 29 November 1864 that resulted in the death of more than
200 tribal members
-1st major conflict with Native Americans
Ghost Dance - Answer *Native American religious movement in the West
-Dance in circles singing
-Singing certain songs will make the Earth swallow up the white people
-Especially popular among the Sioux tribe
-Anyone was allowed to participate
Wounded Knee - Answer *Massacre at Wounded Knee Creek
*James Forsyth orders troops to disarm ghost dancers
Populists - Answer *A party made up of farmers and laborers that wanted direct election of
senators and an 8hr working day
Chinese Exclusion Act - Answer *(1882) Denied any additional Chinese laborers to enter the
country while allowing students and merchants to immigrate.
Haymarket Affair - Answer *1886 incident that made unions, particularly the Knights of
Labor, look violent because a bomb exploded during a protest of striking workers.
Ida B. Wells - Answer *African-American journalist who led the fight against lynching
-Lynching: To execute someone without a legal trial
Questions and Correct Answers.
Edwin Stanton - Answer *Popular Secretary of War who is fired by Johnson and leads to
Johnson's impeachment
Homestead Act - Answer *1862 - Provided free land in the West to anyone willing to settle
there and develop it. Encouraged westward migration.
Las Gorras Blancas - Answer *Night riders that vandalized in protest of westward expansion
in New Mexico
Sand Creek Massacre - Answer *an attack on a village of sleeping Cheyenne Indians by a
regiment of Colorado militiamen on 29 November 1864 that resulted in the death of more than
200 tribal members
-1st major conflict with Native Americans
Ghost Dance - Answer *Native American religious movement in the West
-Dance in circles singing
-Singing certain songs will make the Earth swallow up the white people
-Especially popular among the Sioux tribe
-Anyone was allowed to participate
Wounded Knee - Answer *Massacre at Wounded Knee Creek
*James Forsyth orders troops to disarm ghost dancers
Populists - Answer *A party made up of farmers and laborers that wanted direct election of
senators and an 8hr working day
Chinese Exclusion Act - Answer *(1882) Denied any additional Chinese laborers to enter the
country while allowing students and merchants to immigrate.
Haymarket Affair - Answer *1886 incident that made unions, particularly the Knights of
Labor, look violent because a bomb exploded during a protest of striking workers.
Ida B. Wells - Answer *African-American journalist who led the fight against lynching
-Lynching: To execute someone without a legal trial
