CHP. 16 Quiz
In the late nineteenth century, the popular image of the American West
All of these answers are correct
Early in 1866, a massive joint cattle drive 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 in the late nineteenth century
All these answers are correct.
The western cattle industry saw Mexican ranchers first develop
All these answers are correct.
By 1900, one of the three American territories in the contiguous United States that had NOT been granted statehood was
Arizona
In 1886, the end of formal warfare between the United States and American Indians was marked by the surrender of
Geronimo
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 Navajos and Apaches, forced out Anglo-Americans until 1847.
Which tribe should NOT be included among the Plains Indians?
Yurok
In the late nineteenth century, regarding 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 that relied on the East for markets and capital?
fur trading
The Rocky Mountain School of painting
helped inspire the growth of tourism in the West.
The Sand Creek Massacre of 1864
involved the killing of Indian women and children.
During the mid-nineteenth century, Hispanics living in California
lost ownership of large areas of lands.
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.
In the mid-1880s, the open-range cattle industry declined as a result of
severe weather.
The Comstock Lode primarily produced
silver.
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.
The town that reigned as the railhead of the cattle kingdom for many years was
Abilene, Kansas.
The Dawes Act of 1887
was designed to force Indians to become landowners and farmers.
In the late nineteenth century, fences for Plains farms were usually made from
Barbed wire.
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.
Which of the following Indian tribes was NOT found on the Pacific coast of the Far West?
Creek
All of the following writers and artists made significant contributions to the romanticizing of the American West EXCEPT
James Whistler.
In the 1850s, the U.S. policy of "concentration" for Indians
assigned all tribes to their own defined reservations.
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
banned Chinese in the United States from becoming naturalized citizens.
In the 1840s and 1850s, in the Far West, the response by white Americans to the Chinese
moved from initial acceptance to gradual hostility.
Women in nineteenth-century western mining towns
often found work doing domestic tasks.
During the late nineteenth century, Plains farm life
often lacked any access to the outside world.
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.
Mining in the West
saw individual prospectors move in first, followed by corporations.
Chinese tongs were
secret societies.
In the mid-nineteenth century, the Plains Indians were
the most widespread Indian groups in the West.
The western farmers' first and most burning grievance was against
the railroads.
The Chinese from California became the major source of labor for the transcontinental railroad in part because
they worked for lower wages than what whites would accept.
Before 1860, the traditional policy of the federal government was to regard Indians partly 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 Bighorn
was a short-lived Indian victory.
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.
In the late nineteenth century, "range wars" in the West were often between
white American ranchers and farmers.