Part 2 - Short Answer Question: Answer all parts of the question in full. 3/4ths page minimum response. 

1. For whom and to what extent was the American West a land of opportunity from 1865 to 1890?

Part 3 - Vocabulary: These words are from the chapter, class readings, or discussion and will be used in context or need to be defined on the weekly chapter quiz.  https://www.merriam-webster.com/

arid          

arable

assimilation

barrio

bonanza  

grandiose        

deflation  

malaise         

populist         

transient

transit

untrammeled

__________________1. (adj.) more complicated or elaborate than necessary; overblown

__________________2. (adj.) being without moisture; extremely dry; parched

__________________3. (adj.) appealing to the interests or prejudices of ordinary people

__________________4. (v.) a Spanish-speaking quarter or neighborhood in a city or town in the U.S.

__________________5. (adj.) lasting only a short time; existing briefly; temporary  

__________________6. (adj.) capable of producing crops; suitable for farming

__________________7. (adj.) not hindered or restricted in thought or action

__________________8. (n.) a vague sense of being mentally or morally unwell

__________________9. (n.) a rich mass of ore, as found in mining

__________________10. (n.) a general decrease in prices, wages, and economic growth

__________________11. (n.) the process of adapting or adjusting to the culture of a group or nation

__________________12. (n.) the act or fact of passing through; passage from one place to another

Synonyms: Choose the vocab word that has the same or nearly the same meaning as the boldface word.

1. __________________& __________________ The California gold rush launched a western mining windfall bringing a flood of short-term workers west. 

2. __________________ The political revolt by farmers in the 1890s was led by democratic, or common citizen, concerns about government and monetary corruption in the United States. 

3. __________________ No longer the Great American Desert, the West was now the “frontier”: an empty land awaiting settlement and civilization; a place of freedom and untamed individualism. 

4. __________________ Painters of the “Rocky Mountain School” celebrated the new West in flamboyant canvases, which attracted enormous crowds among Easterners, eager for a vision of the Great West. 

5. __________________& __________________ As settlers flooded West, the fertile land near streams and rivers was settled first, leaving the barren land, far from water, unsettled and largely used for grazing. 

6. __________________ The U.S. government forced tens of thousands of Native American children to attend conformity boarding schools in the late 19th century in the hope of eliminating native culture. 

7. __________________ The American return to the gold standard in 1875 led to a gradual economic slump that limited growth in the Gilded Age. 

8. __________________& __________________ Mexican Americans in California were displaced from ranches as Anglo pioneers crossed the plains; Californios found limited opportunity in ethnic neighborhoods in Los Angeles and San Diego.

9. __________________ The result of this isolation was a growing dissatisfaction among many farmers, a discontent that would help create a great national political movement in the 1890s .

Resources:

Chart of Federal Land Policies after the Civil War

Timeline and Maps of the moving Western frontier