The Conquest of the Far West- Chapter 16

After passage of the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, the Chinese population declined by over 40% over the next 40 years.

True

Between 1865 and 1875, the number of buffalo in the American West declined from 15 million to under 1,000.

True

By the end of the nineteenth century, the American West was firmly tied to the increasingly powerful industrial economy of the East.

True

By the end of the nineteenth century, the Hispanic presence in California was concentrated in the working class.

True

Custer's defeat at Little Big Horn in 1876 was made possible in part by an unusually large gathering of tribal warriors.

True

Late nineteenth-century American farmers increasingly sold their produce in competitive international markets, but they had to buy their supplies in a domestic market with inflated prices protected by tariffs.

True

The Dawes Severalty Act sought the gradual elimination of most tribal ownership of land.

True

The real West of the mid-nineteenth century bore little resemblance to its popular image.

True

The western working class was highly multiracial but also highly stratified (layers on top, layers below) along racial lines.

True

The "Rocky Mountain School" of painting

helped inspire a growth of tourism in the West.

During the 1840s, Hispanics living in California

lost ownership of large areas of lands.

In the late nineteenth century, the popular image of the American West

presented a heroic image of cowboys, perceived the region to be a place offering true freedom

William Cody's Wild West shows

proved to be popular in Europe as well as the United States.

The western cattle industry saw Mexican ranchers first develop

saddles. spurs. lariats

In 1890, the "Ghost Dance"

was a spiritual revival among Plains Indians.

In the 1850s, the United States policy of "concentration" for Indians

assigned all tribes to their own defined reservations.

Which tribe should NOT be included among the Plains Indians?

the Chumash

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

banned Chinese in the United States from becoming naturalized citizens.

The 1876 Battle of Little Big Horn

was a short-lived Indian victory.

The Dawes Act of 1887

was viewed by the United States government as a plan to save the Indians.

In the late nineteenth century, "range wars" in the West were between

white American ranchers and farmers.

The Indian leader who said, "I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever," was

Chief Joseph.

White hostility to the Chinese immigrant was rooted in the perception that they were lazy.

False

In 1886, the end of formal warfare between the United States and American Indians was marked by the surrender of

Geronimo.

In the 1880s, the open range cattle industry declined as a result of

drought.

By the late nineteenth century, which of the following was NOT a major western industry?

fur trading.

In 1890, at Wounded Knee, South Dakota

he U.S. Seventh Cavalry massacred two hundred Indians.

In the mid-nineteenth century, the Plains Indians were

he most widespread Indian groups in the West.

The Comstock Lode primarily produced

Silver

Mining in the American west

produced the region's first economic boom.