Chapter 16

8) In the 1850s, the U.S. policy of "concentration" for Indians A) assigned all tribes to their own defined reservations. B) set the basis for Indian policy for the rest of the century. C) affirmed and continued the previous federal treatment of Indians. D) had many benefits for both whites and Indians. E) reduced conflicts between whites and Indians.

A) assigned all tribes to their own defined reservations.

2) During the nineteenth century, in the Far West the term "coolie" A) referred to Chinese indentured servants. B) was a description for all Asian immigrants. C) was an epithet used by whites to describe members of Chinese tongs. D) was a slang term for prostitutes in mining towns. E) applied to all non-Indians who came to the Far West before the California gold rush.

A) referred to Chinese indentured servants.

7) The Rocky Mountain School of painting A) emphasized the primitive art of Indians and other indigenous peoples. B) helped inspire the growth of tourism in the West. C) was a significant influence on the abstract art that would soon flourish in Europe. D) marked a sharp departure from the artistic style of the Hudson River Valley painters. E) first gained popular acceptance in the early twentieth century.

B) helped inspire the growth of tourism in the West.

1) By the mid-1840s, the American West A) had seen the elimination of nearly all Indian tribes. B) was extremely populated C) contained few migrants from the United States. D) closely resembled its popular image. E) was still an empty, desolate land.

B) was extremely populated.

4) Mining in the West A) did not see any great mineral strikes until after the Civil War. B) flourished until the 1930s. C) saw individual prospectors move in first, followed by corporations. D) saw corporations move in first, followed by individual prospectors. E) kept ranchers and farmers from establishing their own economic base.

C) saw individual prospectors move in first, followed by corporations.

6) In the late nineteenth century, "range wars" in the West were often between A) individual white American ranchers and large American ranching corporations. B) white American ranchers and Chinese ranchers. C) white American ranchers and farmers. D) white Americans and Indians. E) white American ranchers and Mexican ranchers.

C) white American ranchers and farmers.

5) Women in nineteenth-century western mining towns A) had few economic opportunities outside of prostitution. B) generally worked as miners. C) were nearly all single when they first arrived. D) often found work doing domestic tasks. E) often greatly outnumbered the men.

D) often found work doing domestic tasks.

10) The western farmers' first and most burning grievance was against A) eastern manufacturers. B) state governments. C) the banks. D) the railroads. E) crop speculators.

D) the railroads.

9) The Dawes Act of 1887 A) ended the U.S. government's effort to assimilate Indian tribes. B) reaffirmed tribal ownership of western lands in the face of white claims to it. C) was intended to preserve traditional Indian culture. D) was designed to force Indians to become landowners and farmers. E) denied U.S. citizenship to landowning Indian adults.

D) was designed to force Indians to become landowners and farmers.

3) The Chinese from California became the major source of labor for the transcontinental railroad in part because A) their more well-established unions won the railroad contracts. B) they had no other employment prospects. C) most were forced into working for the railroads. D) most were experienced in railroad construction. E) they worked for lower wages than what whites would accept.

E) they worked for lower wages than what whites would accept.