history chapter 16

Which of the following is true of the Sand Creek Massacre?

A Cheyenne camp under federal protection was brutally attacked by a state militia.

Why were late-nineteenth-century farms on the Great Plains much larger than eastern farms?

Dry-farming techniques required about three hundred acres to support a family.

Which of the following statements accurately characterizes the post-Civil War western cattle boom?

It attracted both investors seeking large profits and romantics drawn by the allure of the West.

Who benefitted most from the General Mining Act of 1872, which allowed individuals who discovered minerals on federally owned land to work the claim and keep the proceeds?

Powerful investors

Which of the following was the dominant northern Plains Indian tribe?

Sioux

Why did the Ghost Dance movement spread so quickly in Native American reservations in the late 1880s and early 1890s?

The dance fostered native peoples' hope that they could drive away white settlers.

Which of the following statements describes the historical significance of the Battle of Wounded Knee?

The massacre of the Lakotas there stands as an indictment of U.S. Indian policy and western expansionism.

What was the purpose of Indian boarding schools in the late nineteenth century?

To assimilate Native American children more easily into white culture

Which Reconstruction-era politician created the blueprint for American economic expansion and later imperialism?

William Seward

In 1872, which of the following was established by Congress as the first national park?

Yellowstone

As a result of the Dawes Severalty Act, Indian tribes

lost almost two-thirds of their land.

John Wesley Powell, in his Report on the Lands of the Arid Regions of the United States (1878), famously stated that

massive cooperation under government control was the only way farming would succeed on the Great Plains.

In Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock (1903), the Supreme Court

ruled that Congress could ignore all existing Indian treaties.

The 1868 Burlingame Treaty achieved the American goal of

setting the terms of emigration for Chinese laborers.

The federal government's Civil War debt was paid off primarily through

tariff revenues.

White reformers, such as those who founded the Indian Rights Association, advocated for

the idea that Indians had the innate capacity to become equal with whites.