CH 18

Proponents of creating a "New South" argued that the Confederacy lost the Civil War because:

it relied too much on King Cotton.

Redeemers were all of the following EXCEPT:

members of the Republican party.

The fight for survival in the trans-Mississippi West made men and women:

more equal partners than were their eastern counterparts.

Following the 1867 "Report on the Condition of the Indian Tribes," Congress decided that the best way to end the Indian wars was to:

persuade the Indians to live on out-of-the-way reservations.

In the Battle at the Little Bighorn River in 1876:

some 2,500 Indians annihilated a detachment of 210 soldiers.

As railroads spread into Texas and across the plains, the cattle business:

spread with them.

The Mississippi Plan:

stripped blacks' voting rights.

By the late nineteenth century, Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce Indians believed:

the time had come to stop fighting and put a stop to his people's needless deaths.

The very poor generally did not migrate to the West because:

they generally could not afford the expense of transportation, land, and supplies.

This export crop spurred growth in agriculture in the West during the late nineteenth century.

wheat

Women in the western territories and states were the last to get the right to vote.

False

The Indian tribe that defeated Custer and put up the greatest resistance to U.S. domination was the:

Sioux.

The Homestead Act of 1862 encouraged the development of thriving western farms.

False

The first great cowtown was:

Abilene, Kansas.

The frontier Indian wars began with the closing of the frontier in 1890.

False

The main goal in passing the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 was to swindle the Indians out of their remaining lands.

False

Six states were created from the western territories in the years 1889-1890. These states were not admitted before 1889 because:

Democrats in Congress were reluctant to create states out of territories that were heavily Republican.

Because of high cotton prices, many sharecroppers were able to save money and buy farms.

False

Why was the Fort Laramie Treaty, signed in 1851, significant to westward expansion?

It allowed white emigrants to travel on the trails of Plains Indians unmolested.

Why was Alabama named the "Pittsburgh of the South"?

It was an iron center.

By 1900, lumber in the South had surpassed textiles in value.

True

In the 1880s, southern politics remained surprisingly open and democratic.

True

In the crop-lien system, farmers could grow little besides cotton, tobacco, or some other staple crop.

True

The number of cotton mills in the South more than doubled between 1880 and 1900.

True

In the late 1800s, the South experienced major increases in the production of all of the following areas EXCEPT:

automobiles.

What was a "fifty-niner"?

a miner who came to Colorado following several new discoveries made in 1859

The Comstock Lode refers to:

a mining discovery of gold and silver in Nevada.

The Civil Rights Act of 1875 was:

declared unconstitutional.

The so-called frontier thesis is problematic because, among other things, it:

exaggerated the homogenizing effect of the frontier environment and virtually ignored the role of women.