Chapter 17

The Homestead Act of 1862 encouraged settlement in western lands because it

made land extremely affordable to those who would make improvements upon it.

The Dawes Act of 1877 was based on implementing a system of

private property.

In the 1860s "the West" encompassed multiple peoples, including all of the following EXCEPT

African slaves.

The event that swung opinion in the East against the Sioux and all the Plains Indians was the

Battle of Little Big Horn.

By 1870, which group comprised over half of California's farmworkers and faced growing discrimination?

Chinese

Anti-Chinese rhetoric escalated in the 1870s, primarily due to

Long Depression of 1873.

The American ranching frontier originated in

Texas and west Louisiana.

In May 1869 the nation's first transcontinental railroad was completed, with the last spikes driven in the state of

Utah.

As a result of the effects of the transcontinental railroad and development of the West, the East experienced a

burst of industrial growth.

During the Civil war, as a precaution against Confederate expansion to the West, the Republican Congress moved to

designate remaining western lands as federal territories.

The single most important force in the conquest, settlement, and ultimate incorporation of the West was the

federal government.

In November 1864, militia colonel John M. Chivington led his men on a bloody rampage through a Cheyenne camp

in spite of Chief Black Kettle's peaceful intentions.

The anti-miscegenation laws passed by several western legislatures prohibited

intermarriage between whites and various nonwhite groups.

Indian chiefs opposed the Dawes Act on the grounds that

it attacked the tribal foundations of their society.

Frontier farmers were

reliant on federally funded transportation. encouraged by railroad corporations to move west. driven by federal incentives. All these answers are correct.

The Wounded Knee massacre included the

slaughter of over 100 Sioux and perpetuated public opinion against the western Indians.

The Homestead Act provided that women could apply for land

under nearly any circumstance.

The Sand Creek Massacre had the effect of

uniting the Plains Indians in distrust of the U.S. government.

The post-Civil War West can best be described as a land of

unprecedented booms and devastating busts.

In his frontier thesis, historian Frederick Jackson Turner emphasized the

untamed West.

The thousands of cowboys that drove cattle across the plains were generally compensated through

wages.

As the West expanded, conflicts erupted

with Chinese workers. among competing communities of Euro-Americans. with Native Americans. All these answers are correct.