Chapter 16 Conquest of the Far West MC (pg 431-442)

11. Chinese tongs were A. secret societies. B. prostitutes. C. community officials. D. merchants. E. indentured servants.

A

14. By 1900, one of the three American territories in the contiguous United States that had NOT been granted statehood was A. Arizona. B. Utah. C. Colorado. D. Nebraska. E. South Dakota.

A

4. Which tribe should NOT be included among the Plains Indians? A. Yurok B. Sioux C. Arapaho D. Pawnee E. Cheyenne

A

6. During the mid-nineteenth century, Hispanics living in California A. lost ownership of large areas of lands. B. saw an expansion in the power of californios. C. attempted to revive the Spanish mission society. D. joined with white Americans to drive out Indians. E. increasingly became part of the state's middle class.

A

18. The Comstock Lode primarily produced A. copper. B. silver. C. gold. D. lead. E. zinc.

B

1. By the mid-1840s, the American West A. contained few migrants from the United States. B. was extensively populated. C. had seen the elimination of nearly all Indian tribes. D. closely resembled its popular image. E. was still an empty, desolate land.

B

16. In the late nineteenth century, which of the following was NOT a major western industry that relied on the East for markets and capital? A. mining B. fur trading C. ranching D. commercial farming E. timbering

B

22. The town that reigned as the railhead of the cattle kingdom for many years was A. Sedalia, Missouri. B. Abilene, Kansas. C. Dallas, Texas. D. Omaha, Nebraska. E. Deadwood, South Dakota.

B

24. In the mid-1880s, the open-range cattle industry declined as a result of A. Indian wars. B. severe weather. C. disease. D. competition from Mexico. E. changing consumer habits in the East.

B

9. The Chinese from California became the major source of labor for the transcontinental railroad in part because A. they had no other employment prospects. B. they worked for lower wages than what whites would accept. C. most were experienced in railroad construction. D. most were forced into working for the railroads. E. their more well-established unions won the railroad contracts.

B

12. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 A. resulted in the deportation of half of the Chinese in the United States. B. was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. C. banned Chinese in the United States from becoming naturalized citizens. D. was only applied in California. E. had little effect on the size of the Chinese population in America.

C

19. Women in nineteenth-century western mining towns A. were nearly all single when they first arrived. B. had few economic opportunities outside of prostitution. C. often found work doing domestic tasks. D. generally worked as miners. E. often greatly outnumbered the men.

C

5. Which of the following statements regarding Hispanic New Mexico is FALSE? A. At the time of the Mexican War, Hispanics greatly outnumbered Anglo-Americans. B. The Spanish had had settlements in the area since the seventeenth century. C. Taos Indians, allied with Navajos and Apaches, forced out Anglo-Americans until 1847. D. By the 1870s, the government of New Mexico was dominated by "territorial rings" of Anglo business people and politicians. E. Descendants of the original settlers engaged primarily in cattle and sheep ranching.

C

2. Which of the following Indian tribes was NOT found on the Pacific coast of the Far West? A. Chumash B. Chinook C. Pomo D. Creek E. Serrano

D

8. In the 1840s and 1850s, in the Far West, the response by white Americans to the Chinese A. moved from initial hostility to gradual acceptance. B. was one of consistent acceptance. C. was one of consistent hostility. D. moved from initial acceptance to gradual hostility. E. depended mainly on whether the white American was pro-slavery or antislavery.

D

10. In the 1870s in the Far West, the largest single Chinese community was located in A. Seattle. B. Sacramento. C. San Diego. D. Los Angeles. E. San Francisco.

E

13. The Homestead Act of 1862 A. gave without condition 160 acres to all settlers who would move to the West. B. only applied to public lands within the borders of an organized state. C. saw settlers on the Plains complain the claims were too large for grain farming. D. proved to be enormously popular with western ranchers. E. was expanded by the Timber Culture Act.

E

15. In the second half of the nineteenth century, the working class in the western economy was A. highly multiracial. B. highly stratified along racial lines. C. paid higher wages than workers in the East. D. both highly multiracial and paid higher wages than workers in the East. E. All these answers are correct.

E

17. Mining in the West A. did not see any great mineral strikes until after the Civil War. B. flourished until the 1930s. C. saw corporations move in first, followed by individual prospectors. D. kept ranchers and farmers from establishing their own economic base. E. saw individual prospectors move in first, followed by corporations.

E

20. The western cattle industry saw Mexican ranchers first develop A. saddles. B. spurs. C. lariats. D. leather chaps. E. All these answers are correct.

E

21. Early in 1866, a massive joint cattle drive from Texas to Missouri A. saw the herds suffer heavy losses. B. proved that cattle could be driven to distant markets. C. established a link to the booming urban markets of the East. D. both proved that cattle could be driven to distant markets, and established a link to the booming urban markets of the East. E. All these answers are correct.

E

23. In the late nineteenth century, "range wars" in the West were often between A. white Americans and Indians. B. white American ranchers and Mexican ranchers. C. white American ranchers and Chinese ranchers. D. individual white American ranchers and large American ranching corporations. E. white American ranchers and farmers.

E

3. In the mid-nineteenth century, the Plains Indians were A. usually able to unite against white aggression. B. not as vulnerable to disease as eastern tribes. C. among the least aggressive of all American Indians. D. mostly sedentary farmers. E. the most widespread Indian groups in the West.

E

7. During the nineteenth century, in the Far West the term "coolie" A. was a description for all Asian immigrants. B. was an epithet used by whites to describe members of Chinese tongs. C. applied to all non-Indians who came to the Far West before the California gold rush. D. was a slang term for prostitutes in mining towns. E. referred to Chinese indentured servants.

E