chapter 16 activities
The Dawes Severalty Act of 1887.....
was designed to force Indians to become landowners and farmers.
The 1890 massacre at __________________ signaled the end of the western wars against the Native Americans....
wounded knee, south dakota
(T/F) White agents who observed the Indian "Ghost Dance" often did not understand it....
True
Women in nineteenth-century western mining towns.....
often found work doing domestic tasks.
The western farmers' first and most burning grievance was directed against the __________________....
railroads
which of the following were major grievances western farmers had in the late nineteenth century?
-inflated rail costs -high interest rates
What was the first of the major cities to develop as a railhead of the cattle kingdom?
Abilene, Kansas
Approximately how long did the era of the "long drive" last in the cattle kingdom?
about twenty years
In the late nineteenth century, fences for Plains farms were usually made from....
barbed wire
in the mid 1870's Joseph Gidden and I.L. Ellwood developed and marketed _____, which helped revolutionize fencing practices worldwide
barbed wire
as more and more English-speaking immigrants entered California, many hispanics known as californium found themselves living in ____________ in Los Angeles.
barrios
some tribes of Plains Indians lived a sedentary life as farmers, but others subsisted on hunting what???
buffalo
The "range wars" were fought among which groups?
cattlemen, sheep breeders, and farmers
What was the ultimate destination of the cattle that were driven on the "long drives"?
eastern U.S. markets
In 1882, Congress responded to racist pressure by passing the Chinese ______ Act.....
exclusion
What disasters did cattlemen face between 1885 and 1887?
extreme winters and summers
(T/F) The Sand Creek massacre was a rare story of Indians killing whites.
false
(T/F) White hostility to Chinese immigrants was rooted in the perception that they were lazy.
false
Frederick Jackson Turner wrote of the significance of the _____________ in American history....
frontier
which of the following best describes the work of the Rocky Mountain school painters?
grandiose
which of the following was a weakness that disadvantaged Indians in the fight against white aggression?
inability to unite into a single group
The first economic boom in the Far West came in the _________ industry....
mining
The Comstock Lode primarily produced
silver
how did U.S. expansion to the Southwest affect Spanish-speaking communities in New Mexico?
the ruling classes lost their power
what ended the practice of long cattle drives?
the use of railroads to transport livestock
how did the works of Mark Twain romanticize frontier America?
they depicted freedom from social constraints
how did the role of Mexicans change in the late nineteenth century New Mexico?
they were forced into low-paying labor jobs
what best describes commercial farmers of the late nineteenth century?
they were specialized
(T/F) Between 1865 and 1875, the number of buffalo in the American West declined from 15 million to under 1,000.
true
A homestead unit of 160 acres was too small for grain farming on the Great Plains.....
true
The 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn...
was a short-lived Indian victory.