US history ch 16
Chinese "tongs" were
secret societies
In the mid-1880s, the open range cattle industry declined as a result of
severe weather
The Comstock Lode primarily produced
silver
Which of the following was NOT a significant source of resentment for the late nineteenth-century farmers?
state governments
In "The Significance of the Frontier in American History," Frederick Jackson Turner claimed
that the end of the "frontier" also marked the end of one of the most important democratizing forces in American life
In 1890, at Wounded Knee, South Dakota
the U.S. Seventh Cavalry massacred more than 300 Indians.
In the late nineteenth century, "Range wars" in the West were between
white American ranchers and farmers
In 1890, the "Ghost Dance"
was a spiritual revival among Plains Indians;
The Homestead Act of 1862
was expanded by the Timber Culture Act
By the mid-1840s, the American West
was extensively populated
After the Civil War, cattle driven on the Chisholm Trail ended the journey in
Abilene, Kansas
In the 1860s, cattle drives from Texas to Missouri
All these answers are correct.
In the second half of the nineteenth century, the working class in the western economy was
All these answers are correct.
The decimation of American buffalo herds of the late nineteenth century
All these answers are correct.
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
By 1900, one of the three American territories that had not been granted statehood was
Colorado
Which of the following Indian tribes was NOT found on the Pacific coast of the Far West?
Creek
In 1886, the end of formal warfare between the United States and American Indians was marked by the surrender of
Geronimo
All of the following writers and artists made significant contributions to the romanticizing of the American West EXCEPT
James Whistler
In the 1870s, in the Far West the largest single Chinese community was located in
San Francisco
Which of the following statements regarding Hispanic New Mexico is FALSE?
Taos Indians, allied with Navajo and Apaches, forced out Anglo-Americans until 1847
During the late nineteenth century, Plains farm life
often lacked access to the outside world
Which tribe should NOT be included among the Plains Indians?
Yurok
The Dawes Act of 1887
Was designed to force Indians to become landowners and farmers
The western cattle industry saw Mexican ranchers first develop
all of the above
In the late nineteenth century, the popular image of the American West
all these ansewers are correct
In the 1850s, the United States policy of "concentration" for Indians
assigned all tribes to their own defined reservations
In the late nineteenth century, fences for Plains farms were usually made from
barbed wire
In the late nineteenth century, in regards to western agriculture
commercial farmers were not self-sufficient and made little effort to become so
In the late nineteenth century, which of the following was NOT a major western industry?
fur trading
The "Rocky Mountain School" of painting
helped inspire a growth of tourism in the West
The Sand Creek Massacre of 1864
involved the killing of Indian women and children
During the 1840s, Hispanics living in California
lost ownership of large areas of lands
In the 1840s and 1850s, in the Far West, the response by white Americans to the Chinese
moved from initial acceptance of them to gradual opposition
Women in nineteenth-century western mining towns
often found work doing domestic tasks
In Owen Wister's novel, The Virginian (1902), the American cowboy was
portrayed as a simple and virtuous frontiersman
William Cody's Wild West shows
proved to be popular in Europe as well as the United States
During the nineteenth century, in the Far West the term "coolie"
referred to Chinese indentured servants
In his writings during the late 1800s, the popular author Hamlin Garland
reflected the growing disillusionment of western farmers
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
resulted in the deportation of half of the Chinese in the United States
Mining in the west
saw individual prospectors move in first, followed by corporations.
In the mid-nineteenth century, the Plains Indians were
the most widespread Indian groups in the West
The Chinese from California became the major source of labor for the transcontinental railroad because
they worked for lower wages than what whites would accept
Before 1860, the traditional policy of the federal government was to regard Indians as
wards of the president of the United States
In the late nineteenth century, the surge of farming settlement in the west
was a result of many factors, but the most important was the railroad.
The 1876 Battle of Little Big Horn
was a short-lived Indian victory
