Chapter 17 Study Guide, Mr. Busque 8^th grade Social Studies

General Info:

The test will be 20-25 questions. It will be a combination of true and false, multiple choice, fill in the blanks, and short answer. The accelerated class will also have a short essay. The test needs to be completed in 1 class period. Use this study guide to make notes to study for the test. Make flash cards for the key terms. Make sure you have read the entire chapter. See me with questions.

Key Terms:

Know these terms and people. Also know how they were important to US history.

Chapter 17

-Transcontinental Railroad

-Reservation

-Geronimo

-Open Range

-Sodbuster

-Buffalo Soldiers

-Promontory

-Sooners

-Subsidies

-Leland Stanford

Concepts:

Understand how these items worked, why they were important, or how they changed or effected history.

Chapter 17

- How did mining cause a need for Westward Expansion?

- What were some of the challenges in building the Transcontinental Railroad?

- What was life like for Native Americans before and after Westward Expansion?

- How did the Cattle Kingdom happen, and why did it end so quickly?

- Describe what life was like for early farmers during Westward Expansion?

- Understand the belief system of the Apache and how they describe the origins of everything.

Accelerated Class Essay Topic Areas

Be able to describe what is was like to be one of the three people listed below during the time of westward expansion.

- Life as an early farmer to the plains

- Life as an Apache

- Life as a worker on the Transcontinental Railroad