quiz 12

Which of these was true of agriculture on the Great Plains and in the West in the late 1800s?

Commercial farmers were not self-sufficient and made little effort to become so.

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

Geronimo

The Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 did which of the following?

It involved the killing of Indian women and children.

In the late nineteenth century, what was the popular image of the American West?

It presented a heroic image of cowboys.

What was the result of the 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn?

It was a short-lived Indian victory.

During the late nineteenth century, which of the following was true of Plains farm life?

It was often isolating for those who lived it.

In the second half of the nineteenth century, which statement was true regarding the working class in the western economy?

It was paid higher wages than workers in the East.

Which of the following was a means for implementing the eventual policy against American Indians in the late nineteenth century resulting from reports such as the one above?

establishment of American Indian boarding schools for American Indian children

The Rocky Mountain School of painting ________.

helped inspire the growth of tourism in the West

In the mid-1880s, the open-range cattle industry declined as a result of which of these?

severe weather

The above excerpt best reflects the changing nature of government policies towards the American Indian by the late 19th century in which of the following ways?

A shift from a policy of isolating the tribes from white society to one of assimilation.

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

Chief Joseph

All of the following writers and artists made significant contributions to the romanticizing of the American West EXCEPT which one?

Harriet Beecher Stowe

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 did which of the following?

It banned Chinese in the United States from becoming naturalized citizens.

In "The Significance of the Frontier in American History," Frederick Jackson Turner claimed which of the following?

The end of the "frontier" also marked the end of one of the most important democratizing forces in American life.

During the mid-nineteenth century, what happened to Hispanics living in California?

They lost ownership of large areas of lands.

In the 1850s, the U.S. policy of "concentration" for Indians

assigned all tribes to their own defined reservations.

In his writings during the late 1800s, the popular author Hamlin Garland did which of the following?

reflected the growing disillusionment of western farmers

Mining in the West ________.

saw individual prospectors move in first, followed by corporations

The Homestead Act of 1862 ________.

was expanded by the Timber Culture Act and the Desert Lands Act

Which later practice was most similar to what the Office of Indian Affairs warned against in this document?

the growing popularity of the Ghost Dance

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

the most widespread Indian groups in the West

. In the late nineteenth century, "range wars" in the West were often between which of the following?

white American ranchers and farmers

In the late nineteenth century, the surge of farming settlement in the West ________.

would not have been possible without the transcontinental railroads