History chapter 16
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
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
Women in nineteenth-century western mining towns
often found work doing domestic tasks
Mining in the West
saw individual prospectors move in first, followed by corporations.
The western cattle industry saw Mexican ranchers first develop
all of the above
In the 1850s the us policy of concentration for Indians
assigned all tribes to their own defined reservations
In the late nineteenth century fences for plains farms were usually made from
barbed wire
Sand Creek Massacre (1864)
involved the killing of Indian women and children in Colorado
During the mid-nineteenth century, Hispanics living in California
lost ownership of large areas of lands
During the late nineteenth century plains farm life
often lacked any access to the outside world
In Owen Wisters novel the Virginian the American cowboy was
portrayed as a simple and virtuous frontiersman
Chinese tongs were
secret societies
In 1890 at wounded knee South Dakota
the U.S. Seventh Cavalry massacred two hundred Indians
Before 1860, the traditional policy of the federal government was to regard Indians as
wards of the president of the United States
The 1876 battle of Little Bighorn
was a short-lived Indian victory
In 1890 the ghost dance
was a spirtiul revival among Plains Indians that would remove the settlers and make the Indians bullet proof
In the late nineteenth century range wars in the west were often between
white American ranchers and farmers
The town that resigned as the railhead of the cattle kingdom for many years was
Abilene Kansas
Early in 1866, a massive joint cattle drive from Texas to Missouri
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In the second half of the nineteenth century, the working class in the western economy was
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The decimation of American buffalo herds in the late nineteenth century
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The Chinese excursion act of 1882
Banned Chinese in the United States from becoming naturalized citizens
Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show
Proved to be popular in Europe as well as the United States
By the mid-1840s, the American West
was extensively populated
In the mid 1880s the open range cattle industry declined as a result of
Severe weather
The comstock lode primarily produced
Silver
In the 1870s in the far west the largest single Chinese community was located in
San Francisco
The significance of the frontier in American history Fredrick 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 the mid nineteenth century the plain Indians were
The most widespread Indian group In the west
The Dawes severalty act of 1887
Was designed to force Indians to become landowners and farmers
The homestead act of 1862
Was later expanded by the timber culture act
The Rocky Mountain school of painting
helped inspire a growth of tourism in the West
In the 1840s and 1850s in the far west the response by white Americans to the Chinese
moved from initial acceptance to gradual hostility.
During the nineteenth century in the far west the term coolie
referred to Chinese indentured servants
