Chapter 16: The Conquest of the Far War Smartbook

How did the United States respond to acts of aggression by native warriors?

By calling upon militias to subdue and destroy them

The farmers' most burning grievance in the late nineteenth century was against the...

Railroads

As part of the Bureau of Indian Affair's assimilation policy, Native American children were taken from their families and...

Sent to boarding schools run by white people

Which of the following best describes the mining boom in the West?

Short-lived

In the 1870s, many western settlers expanded their landholdings by..

Taking advantage of government acts such as the Timber Culture Act

What legislation provided for the gradual elimination of most native land ownership and allotted tracts of land to individual owners?

The Dawes Severalty Act

Why did the Indians' actions at Little Bighorn ultimately fail?

The Indians lacked the political organization or supplies to keep their troops united

The single most important facilitator of settlement in the West was...

The construction of the railroad

In the mid-nineteenth century, the Plains Indians were...

The most widespread native group in the West

Why did most whites engage in the practice of "Indian hunting"?

They did not think white and native people could coexist, so they wanted to "eliminate" them

Which of the following is true of white beliefs about tribal sovereignty that were held before 1860?

They did not withstand the desire of white settlers for more Indian lands

Which of the following best describes the Sand Creek massacre?

A brutal slaughter of mostly native women and children

Which native groups joined together in the mid-nineteenth century to form a powerful alliance that ruled the northern plains?

Arapaho Sioux Cheyenne

After battling American troops in a battle at White Bird Canyon, the Nez Perce...

Attempted to flee to Canada

Which of the following best describes the agricultural economy in the West after the Civil War?

Boom-bust

Some Plains Indians lived a sedentary life as farmers, but others subsisted on hunting ____________, which provided the economic basis for Plains Indians' way of life

Buffalo

As part of the Dawes Act, the Bureau of Indian Affairs...

Encouraged the creation of Christian churches on Native American reservations

T/ F: Gold and silver discoveries were more important to western development than the discovery of any other natural resource

False - Although gold and silver discoveries generated the most popular excitement, less glamorous natural resources were more important to western development

The western agricultural economy of the 1870 and 1880s...

Flourished for a short time before making a long, steady decline

Among the casualties at the Battle of Little Bighorn was a man known for his skirmishes with Native Americans. Who was this man?

George Custer

In 1849, settlers swarmed to California because of the discovery of ___________ in the region

Gold

Which of the following were major grievances western farmers had in the late nineteenth century?

High interest rates Inflated rail costs Inadequate currency

What Native American leader said, "I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stand, I will fight no more forever"?

Chief Joseph

What cornerstone of Native American culture was directly destroyed by the Dawes Severalty Act?

Communal property ownership

The systematic placing of native groups on reservations was known as the ___________ policy

Concentration

Found in the Anaconda mine, which of the following minerals supported the long-term growth of the Montana economy?

Copper

Railroads encouraged western settlement to...

Create new markets for the goods their lines would transport

Which of the following were responsible for the loss of the Native American population in California between 1850 and 1880?

Disease Poverty Indian hunters

Which of the following was a weakness that disadvantaged the Plains Indians in the fight against white aggression?

Inability to unite into a single group

Which of the following is true of the western agricultural economy in the late nineteenth century?

It enclosed land once used as hunting terrain for native peoples and open range for cattle

How did the Homestead Act encourage migration to the West?

It gave settlers land for a small fee in exchange for occupying and improving the land

Which of the following is true of the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887?

It was seen by many in the United States government as a plan to save native groups

Incidents such as the Sand Creek massacre illustrated the tensions between the Cheyenne and Arapaho and the area's...

Miners

The most serious and sustained conflict between western Native Americans and white troops occurred in...

Montana

The Indian Peace Commission proposed that the government...

Move all Plains peoples onto two large reservations

Which Native American group tried to flee to Canada after several of its younger members killed four white settlers while they were in the process of being moved to a reservation?

Nez Perce

Wounded Knee, in 1890, was a...

One-sided massacre

What was the ultimate goal of the Dawes Act?

To assimilate Native Americans into American culture

T/ F: The slaughter of buffalo herds by whites destroyed the native groups' way of life

True

Before the Civil War, most settlers traveled through the Great Plains in...

Wagons

Which of the following occurred at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, in 1890?

White troops killed cold and starving Indians with their new machine guns

Although they didn't know it, the primary root of the problem for farmers was...

Worldwide overproduction