Chapter 16 APUSH
99. The 1890 massacre of cold and starving Sioux at ________ signaled the end of the western wars against the Native American.
?
97. The last Indian tribe to maintain organized resistance against whites was the Chiricahua ________.
Apaches.
84. Many of the Plains Indians subsisted largely through hunting ________.
Buffalo, Bison
95. The ________ Act of 1887 sought to assimilate Native Americans into the larger white culture.
Dawes
87. The Workingmen's Party of California was created in 1878 by Irish immigrant ________ to capitalize on hostility to the Chinese.
Denis Kearney
88. In 1882, Congress responded to racist pressure by passing the Chinese ________ Act.
Exclusion
50. Plains Indians were formidable foes of white settlers because they were usually able to present a united front.
F
51. Plains Indians were not particularly vulnerable to infectious diseases brought from the eastern United States.
F
53. The power of the Navajo and Apache tribes in the Southwest was broken by Hispanic settlers before the arrival of the U.S. Army.
F
56. White hostility to Chinese immigrants was rooted in the perception that they were lazy.
F
59. The Timber Culture Act and the Desert Land Act were both designed to limit individual homesteaders in the American West.
F
62. The most valuable mineral in the great Comstock Lode was gold.
F
63. Women in western mining towns were almost always prostitutes.
F
66. Those who flocked to mining towns and failed to strike it rich most often left the West.
F
68. The 1866 attempt to create a "long drive" between Texas and Missouri ended in failure.
F
70. The post-1850 federal government reservation policy for American Indians had few benefits for either whites or Indians.
F
71. Management of Indian affairs by the federal government was in the hands of the army.
F
73. The Sand Creek Massacre was a rare story of Indians killing whites.
F
76. The story of the Nez Percé Indians is of a peaceful tribe forced to turn terribly violent.
F
94. Frederick Jackson Turner wrote of the significance of the ________ in American history.
Frontier
98. A Paiute prophet named Wovoka was responsible for the "________."
Ghost Dance
90. The ________ established the first tentative links between Texas cattle breeders and eastern markets.
Long drives
83. The most widespread Indian groups in the West were the ________.
Plains Indians
92. Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Moran were painters from the "________ School" who celebrated the West in their art.
Rocky mountain
89. Hispanic societies survived in the ________ in part because they were so far from the centers of English-speaking society.
Southwest
47. The real West of the mid-nineteenth century bore little resemblance to its popular image.
T
48. More than 300,000 Indians lived on the Pacific coast before the arrival of Spanish settlers.
T
49. Permanent settlements were somewhat rare among the Plains Indians.
T
52. In the mid-nineteenth century, Hispanic society in the Southwest grew, despite the increasing Anglo-American settlement in that area.
T
54. By the end of the nineteenth century, the Hispanic presence in California was concentrated in the working class.
T
55. By 1880, more than 200,000 Chinese had settled in the United States.
T
57. A number of Chinese immigrants worked in the mines of California before turning to the railroad for employment.
T
58. A homestead unit of 160 acres was too small for grain farming on the Great Plains.
T
60. By the end of the nineteenth century, the American West was firmly tied to the increasingly powerful industrial economy of the East.
T
61. The western working class was highly multiracial and stratified along racial lines.
T
64. In the 1870s, nearly one out of every eighty miners was killed on the job.
T
65. The number of men in mining towns greatly outnumbered the number of women.
T
67. By ancestry, the western cattle industry was Mexican and Texan.
T
69. During the latter half of the nineteenth century, the structure of the cattle industry became increasingly corporate.
T
72. Between 1865 and 1875, the number of buffalo in the American West declined from 15 million to under 1,000.
T
74. At the end of the Civil War, whites stepped up their wars against the western Indians on several fronts.
T
75. Custer's defeat at Little Bighorn in 1876 was made possible in part by an unusually large Indian encampment.
T
86. Secret societies, known as ________, were organized by Chinese Americans.
Tongs
85. Beginning in 1865, more than 12,000 Chinese found work building the ________.
Transcontinental Railroad
93. Buffalo Bill Cody headed the most popular ________ shows in the late nineteenth century.
Wild West
96. In 1851, a new reservation policy known as "________" replaced the idea that large numbers of tribes could live in one great enclave.
concentration
91. Range wars in the West were fought between ranchers and ________.
farmers
100. The western farmers' first and most burning grievance was directed against the ________.
railroads
