Ch 16 APUSH

For what reason had states chartered corporations in the early nineteenth century?

To fulfill specific public purposes

During the 1870s, what decimated the vast herds of buffalo that had roamed the Great Plains?

Animal diseases and overhunting by whites

Which technology permitted homesteaders in the West to plant crops in the prairie in the 1860s and 1870s?

Steel plows

Why did Mormon women argue that giving them the right to vote in Utah Territory would benefit the Mormon community?

because they would out-vote the non-Mormon miners

Unlike most European countries, the United States decided to finance railroads through

private investors.

Why did Great Britain agree to pay the United States $15.5 million in damages after the Civil War?

British shipyards had built Confederate raiding vessels such as CSS Alabama.

How did the United States persuade the Japanese to open trade relations?

By wielding naval power to persuade the Japanese to sign a treaty

What did Oglala Sioux Chief Red Cloud accomplish in 1868?

He convinced the United States to withdraw troops from the Bozeman Trail.

Republicans in the 1880s were staunch advocates of what economic policy?

High Tariffs

Readers of Frederick Jackson Turner's essay on the frontier in American history believed that, in contrast to European nations, the United States had avoided what practice?

Imperialism

Why was the General Mining Act of 1872 not useful in developing the West despite its generous grant of mineral resources to those who discovered them?

Large-scale operations were needed to extract many minerals.

Why was John Wesley Powell's advice about promoting water management and dry farming in the Great Plains ignored in Congress?

Members of Congress clung to the dream of homesteading.

What was the name of the Native American religious movement that drew upon and combined significant Christian and native elements?

The Ghost Dance

Which act gave 160 free public acres to applicants who occupied and improved them?

The Homestead Act

What trend is evident in the three maps of South Dakota reservations?

The diminishment of lands guaranteed to the Sioux

Why did the United States switch from a bimetallic standard to a gold standard in 1873?

The discovery of immense silver deposits in the West

What was the basis for the development of the Far West of the United States?

The extraction of natural resources

Why were Republicans so eager to fund the construction of a transcontinental railroad in the 1860s?

They saw the failure to connect different regions via the railroad as one cause of the Civil War.

Why did William Seward urge Congress to purchase refueling stations in the Pacific and the Caribbean?

To support growing trade with Asia and Latin America

Although in the late 1800s critics decried the ways in which government spending aided the accumulation of enormous private wealth, they acknowledged that the giant railroad companies that received these funds

benefited the economy.