Ch 16 Pt 2 Review

The Homestead Act of 1862

was expanded by the Timber Culture Act

The Chinese from California became the major source of labor for the transcontinental railroad in part because

they worked for lower wages than what whites would accept

In 1890, the "Ghost Dance"

was a spiritual revival among Plains Indians.

Women in nineteenth-century western mining towns

often found work doing domestic tasks

The western cattle industry saw Mexican ranchers first develop

all of the above

In the late nineteenth century, fences for Plains farms were usually made from

barbed wire

During the mid-nineteenth century, Hispanics living in California

lost ownership of large areas of lands

In the 1840s and 1850s, in the Far West, the response by white Americans to the Chinese

moved from initial acceptance to gradual hostility.

During the late nineteenth century, Plains farm life

often lacked any access to the outside world

During the nineteenth century, in the Far West the term "coolie"

referred to Chinese indentured servants

In his writings during the late 1800s, the popular author Hamlin Garland

reflected the growing disillusionment of western farmers

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

resulted in the deportation of half of the Chinese in the United States

Mining in the West

saw individual prospectors move in first, followed by corporations.

Chinese tongs were

secret societies

By 1900, one of the three American territories in the contiguous United States that had NOT been granted statehood was

Arizona

In the second half of the nineteenth century, the working class in the western economy was

All these answers are correct.

In the late nineteenth century, which of the following was NOT a major western industry that relied on the East for markets and capital?

Fur trading

The western farmers' first and most burning grievance was against

Railroads

In the 1870s in the Far West, the largest single Chinese community was located in

San Francisco

The Comstock Lode primarily produced

Silver

Which of the following statements regarding Hispanic New Mexico is FALSE?

Taos Indians, allied with Navajo and Apaches, forced out Anglo-Americans until 1847

In the late nineteenth century, regarding western agriculture,

commercial farmers were not self-sufficient and made little effort to become so

The Rocky Mountain School of painting

helped inspire a growth of tourism in the West