Chapter 17
The Homestead Act of 1862 encouraged settlement in western lands because it
made land extremely affordable to those who would make improvements upon it.
The Dawes Act of 1877 was based on implementing a system of
private property.
In the 1860s "the West" encompassed multiple peoples, including all of the following EXCEPT
African slaves.
The event that swung opinion in the East against the Sioux and all the Plains Indians was the
Battle of Little Big Horn.
By 1870, which group comprised over half of California's farmworkers and faced growing discrimination?
Chinese
Anti-Chinese rhetoric escalated in the 1870s, primarily due to
Long Depression of 1873.
The American ranching frontier originated in
Texas and west Louisiana.
In May 1869 the nation's first transcontinental railroad was completed, with the last spikes driven in the state of
Utah.
As a result of the effects of the transcontinental railroad and development of the West, the East experienced a
burst of industrial growth.
During the Civil war, as a precaution against Confederate expansion to the West, the Republican Congress moved to
designate remaining western lands as federal territories.
The single most important force in the conquest, settlement, and ultimate incorporation of the West was the
federal government.
In November 1864, militia colonel John M. Chivington led his men on a bloody rampage through a Cheyenne camp
in spite of Chief Black Kettle's peaceful intentions.
The anti-miscegenation laws passed by several western legislatures prohibited
intermarriage between whites and various nonwhite groups.
Indian chiefs opposed the Dawes Act on the grounds that
it attacked the tribal foundations of their society.
Frontier farmers were
reliant on federally funded transportation. encouraged by railroad corporations to move west. driven by federal incentives. All these answers are correct.
The Wounded Knee massacre included the
slaughter of over 100 Sioux and perpetuated public opinion against the western Indians.
The Homestead Act provided that women could apply for land
under nearly any circumstance.
The Sand Creek Massacre had the effect of
uniting the Plains Indians in distrust of the U.S. government.
The post-Civil War West can best be described as a land of
unprecedented booms and devastating busts.
In his frontier thesis, historian Frederick Jackson Turner emphasized the
untamed West.
The thousands of cowboys that drove cattle across the plains were generally compensated through
wages.
As the West expanded, conflicts erupted
with Chinese workers. among competing communities of Euro-Americans. with Native Americans. All these answers are correct.