CHAPTER 16
Which of the following was included in theatrical and dime novel depictions of the American West?
Amazing feats of skilled horseback riding, roping, and shooting.
Which of the following statements about nineteenth-century Chinese immigrants to the United States is accurate?
By 1880, three-fourths of Chinese immigrants lived in California, where many worked on farms.
By the turn of the century, most Americans still worked for themselves as small-business owners or as farmers.
F
Male farmers experienced the most hardship on the Great Plains, because farm women did not experience long days in the fields.
F
Most nineteenth-century Indians were willing to assimilate and give up their tribal identity for citizenship.
F
The Dawes Act was an extension of the treaty system practiced by the American government since the Revolutionary War.
F
The Morrill Land-Grant Act, passed during the Civil War, prohibited mining and railroad companies from continued use of public lands.
F
West?
Government policy orchestrated the removal of Aboriginal children from their homes for official adoption by whites.
Why was William Tweed so popular with the city's immigrant poor?
He had provided food, fuel, and patronage to them in exchange for their votes.
How did expanding agricultural production in places like Argentina and the American West lead to the migration of rural populations to cities?
Increasing output worldwide pushed down the prices of farm products, making it more difficult for farmers to make ends meet.
According to the authors of the Dawes Severalty Act, what constituted a civilized life for Native Americans in the later nineteenth century?
Individual property ownership and farming on family plots.
Why did President James Buchanan replace Utah's territorial governor Brigham Young with a non-Mormon appointee in 1857?
It became known that the work of federal judges in Utah was being obstructed.
Why did western territories take longer than eastern territories to achieve statehood?
Many easterners were wary of granting statehood until white and non-Mormon settlers counterbalanced the large Latino and Mormon populations
Why was the Hollywood version of the western "cowboy" based more on fantasy than reality?
Most cowboys were low-paid workers, some of whom even went on strike for higher wages.
An example of what the economist and social historian Thorstein Veblen meant by "conspicuous consumption" is
Mrs. Bradley Martin's costume ball.
How did the expansion of railroads accelerate the second industrial revolution in America?
Railroads created a true national market for U.S. goods.
How were skilled workers able to secure new freedoms for themselves in rapidly expanding industries?
Their knowledge allowed them to control the production process and the training of apprentices.
Why did new products like Ivory Soap and Quaker Oats symbolize the continuing integration of the economy in America's Gilded Age?
These products were national brands, sold everywhere across the United States thanks to the expanding railroad network.
What did Native Americans have in common with the Zulu of South Africa and the aboriginal people in Australia?
They found themselves pushed aside by centralizing government trying to control large interior regions.
Which of the following does NOT describe the impact of corporations on the American West?
Urban populations in California declined as people moved to the centers of agricultural production.
The impact of the second industrial revolution on the trans-Mississippi West was:
dramatic as an agricultural empire grew.
In How the Other Half Lives, Jacob Riis:
focused on the wretched conditions of New York City slums.
One significant economic impact of the second industrial revolution was
frequent and prolonged economic depressions.
The Plains Indians
included the Cheyenne, Comanche, Crow, Kiowa, and Sioux.
The second industrial revolution was marked by
the acceleration of factory production and increased activity in the mining and railroad industries
Bonanza farms
typically had thousands of acres of land or more
Chief Joseph
wanted freedom for his people, the Nez Percé
The Ghost Dance
was a religious revitalization campaign among Indians, feared by whites.
By 1890, the majority of Americans
worked for wages
Chinese immigrants to the West:
worked in shoe and cigar factories in western cities
Both Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller amassed huge fortunes through vertical integration
T
The coming of the railroad to the Far West had little to do with the rapid expansion of corporate timber production.
F
The economy surged forward between 1870 and 1890, bringing prosperity and growth with only minor disruptions.
F
By 1880, a majority of Americans worked in non-farm activities.
T
Why did railroad companies and other businesses form "pools" during the American Gilded Age?
They hoped to escape the chaos of market forces by fixing prices with their competitors.
Thomas Edison
invented, among other things, a system for generating and distributing electricity.
What criticism did Henry Demarest Lloyd leverage against Rockefeller's Standard Oil in Wealth against Commonwealth (1892)?
Standard Oil was undermining fair competition in the marketplace.
American workers received higher pay than their European counterparts, but their working conditions were more dangerous.
T
Before the Civil War, most Chinese arrivals in the American West were single men, but by the 1870s, Chinese families had begun to arrive.
T
Elk v. Wilkins (1884) agreed with lower court rulings that the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments did not apply to Indians.
T
John Wesley Powell warned that the western region's arid land would require large-scale irrigation projects and cooperative, communal farming to prosper.
T
The idea for the Statue of Liberty originated as a response to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
T
The spread of electricity was essential to industrial and urban growth.
T
What was the aim of Carlisle, a boarding school for Indians
To civilize the Indians, making them "American," as whites defined the term.
The term "Gilded Age" describes all of the following EXCEPT:
an era where the scramble for wealth benefited all Americans equally.
Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller:
built up giant corporations that dominated their respective markets.
William Cody
created a "Wild West" show that toured the United States and Europe
Nineteenth-century Americans imagined the "Wild West" as all of the following EXCEPT:
isolated farms, where men and women carved out difficult lives on the Great Plains.
All of the following factors contributed to explosive economic growth during the Gilded Age EXCEPT
low tariffs
The Indian victory at the Little Bighorn
only temporarily delayed the advance of white settlement