APUSH - Learning Curve Chapter 16

What did Sitting Bull wish for his children by 1885?

A "white" education

Why did Mormon women argue that giving them the right to vote in Utah Territory would benefit the Mormon community?

Because they would outvote non-Mormon miners

Why did Great Britain agree to pay the United States $15.5 million in damages after the Civil War?

British shipyards had built Confederate raiding vessels such as CSS Alabama.

How did the United States persuade the Japanese to open trade relations?

By wielding naval power to persuade the Japanese to sign a treaty

Republicans in the 1880s were staunch advocates of what economic policy?

High tariffs

What problem plagued homesteaders of the Great Plains in the 1880s?

Lack of rain

Which issue distinguished homesteading in the plains from pioneer farming in Iowa or Oregon in the antebellum years?

Land speculation

Why was John Wesley Powell's advice about promoting water management and dry farming in the Great Plains ignored in Congress?

Members of Congress clung to the dream of homesteading.

What did the advertisement for Buffalo Bills' Wild West show suggest to audiences?

Native tribes in the American West were a fierce and uncivilized race.

What ended the Long Drive of cattle from Texas to Missouri in the 1870s?

Railroads

Which of the following ethnic groups was represented in notable numbers in the agricultural settlement of the Great Plains?

Scandinavians

What did the U.S. Supreme Court rule in the case of Munn v. Illinois (1877)?

States had the right to regulate businesses with a public purpose.

Which technology permitted homesteaders in the West to plant crops in the prairie in the 1860s and 1870s?

Steel plows

What trend is evident in the three maps of South Dakota reservations?

The diminishment of lands guaranteed to the Sioux

What was the basis for the development of the Far West of the United States?

The extraction of natural resources

Why did whites living in the West in the early 1860s undertake vigilante action against Native Americans on their own rather than relying on the federal government?

The government was preoccupied with the Civil War.

One critic called the Comstock Lode "the tomb of the forests of the Sierra." Why was that phrase apt?

The mining industry ravaged the landscape.

What might have been the purpose behind this photo taken by Edward S. Curtis of Piegan (Blackfeet) warriors Little Plume and his son Yellow Kidney?

The photographer wanted to portray their distinctly different culture.

In an issue of the journal Wonderland, the Northern Pacific Railroad Company introduced eastern readers to a view of the west from the railcar: "We are now in the far-famed Yellowstone Valley. . . . There are but few Indians now to be seen along the line of the railroad, and those are engaged in agricultural and industrial pursuits. The extinction of the buffalo has rendered the Indian much more amenable to the civilizing influences brought to bear upon him than he formerly was." In the view of the railroad, what made the Yellowstone Valley more appealing?

The taming of Indians

Why did Indian agents and missionaries create Indian schools off the reservations as part of the effort to solve what was seen as the "Indian problem"?

They did not think they could re-educate Indian children when still living with their families.

Why were Republicans so eager to fund the construction of a transcontinental railroad in the 1860s?

They saw the failure to connect different regions via the railroad as one cause of the Civil War.

Why did Sioux and Cheyenne Indians sign on with Buffalo Bill's entertainment group?

They sought to escape the harsh conditions on reservations.

For what reason had states chartered corporations in the early nineteenth century?

To fulfill specific public purposes

Why did William Seward urge Congress to purchase refueling stations in the Pacific and the Caribbean?

To support growing trade with Asia and Latin America