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In 1890, the "Ghost Dance"

was a spiritual revival among Plains Indians

In the 1850s, the United States policy of "concentration" for Indians...

assigned all tribes to their own defined reservations

Women in the 19th century western mining towns...

often found work doing domestic tasks

Mining in the West

produced the region's first economic boom

In the 1860's cattle drivers from Texas to Missouri...

saw herds suffer heavy losses, proved that cattle could be driven to distant markets

What was NOT a significant source of resentment for the late 10th century farmers?

state governments

Before 1860, the traditional policy of the federal government was to regard Indians as

wards of the president of the United States

the 1890 massacre at _____________ signaled the end of the western wars against the Native Americans.

wounded Knee

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882...

banned Chinese in the United States from becoming naturalized citizens.

The Sand Creek Massacre of 1864

involved the killing of Indian women and children

The "___________" established the first tentative links between Texas cattle breeders and eastern markets.

long drives

During the 1840's, Hispanics living in California...

lost ownership of large areas of lands.

The first economic boom in the Far West came in the ___________ industry.

mining

During the late 19th century, Plains farm life...

often lacked access to the outside world

In Owen Wister's novel, The Virginian (1902), the American cowboy was...

portrayed as a simple and virtuous frontiersman

In the late 19th century, the popular image of the American West...

presented a heroic image of cowboys, precieved the region to be a place offering true freedom

William Cody's Wild West shows

proved to be popular in Europe as well as the United States

The Western cattle industry saw Mexican ranchers first develop...

saddles, spurs and lariats

Chinese "tongs" were...

secret societies

The Comstock Lode primarily produced...

silver

In 1890, at Wounded Knee, South Dakota..

the US Seventh Cavalry massacred two hundred Indians

In "The Significance of the Frontier in American history," Frederick Jackson Turner claimed...

the frontier had made Americans distinctive people

In the mid-nineteenth century, the Plains Indians were...

the most widespread Indian groups in the West

The Chinese from California became the major source of labor for the transcontinental railroad because...

they worked for lower wages than the whites would accept.

The 1876 Battle of Little Big Horn

was a short-lived Indian victory

The Homestead Act of 1862...

was expanded by the Timber Culture Act

By the mid-1840's, the American West...

was extensively populated

the Dawes Act of 1887...

was viewed by the United States government as a plan to save the Indians

In the 19th century, the western agricultural economy...

saw the railroad become the most important factor in its development

The last Indian tribe to maintain organized resistance against the whites was the ___________

Apaches

Many of the Plains Indians subsisted largely through hunting...

Buffalo

The _________ Act of 1887 sought to assimilate Native Americans into the larger white culture.

Dawes Severalty Act

After the Civil war, cattle driven on the Chisholm Trail ended the journey in...

Abilene, Kansas

In the late 19th century, fences for Plains farms were usually made from...

Barbed wire

next to the Indians, the ________ probably suffered the most intense persecution from white Americans in the West.

Chinese

by 1900, one of the three American territories that had not been granted states hood was...

Colorado

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...

Crazy Horse

Which of the following Indian tribes was NOT found on the Pacific coast of the Far West?

Creek

In 1882, Congress responded to racist pressure by pressure by passing the Chinese _________ Act

Exclusion

In the late 19th century, what was NOT a major western industry?

Fur Trading

In 1886, the end of formal warfare between the United States and American Indians was marked by the surrender of...

Geronimo

In the second half of the 19th century, the working class in the western economy was...

Highly multiracial and divided along racial lines

Who didn't romanticize the American West in his "works"

James Whistler

Hispanic New Mexico

Mexican war, Hispanics greatly outnumbered Anglo-Americans, Spanish had settlements in the area since the 17th century, military victories by the US army led to large increase of Hispanic migration.

The most widespread Indian groups in the West were the...

Plains Indians

Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Moran were painters from the "____________________ School" who celebrated the West in their art.

Rocky mountain school

In the late 19th century in regards to western agriculture...

commercial farmers were not self-sufficient and made little effort to become so

In 1851 the new reservation policy, known as "__________," replaced the idea that large numbers of tribes could live in one great enclave.

concentration

The decimation of American buffalo herds of the late 19th century...

destroyed the ability of Plains Indians to resist the advance of white settlers, was accelerated by Indian tribes who killed large numbers of buffalo to sell to white Americans

In the 1880s, the open range cattle industry declined as a result of...

drought

Frederick Jackson turner wrote of the significance of the ___________ in American history.

frontier

The "Rocky Mountain School" of painting

helped inspire a growth of tourism in the West

In the 1870's, in the Far West the largest single Chinese community was located in...

San Francisco

Which tribe should NOT be included among the Plains Indians?

The Chumash

Secret societies, known as ________, were organized by chinese Americans

Tongs

The 1869 completion of the_________ sped development of the West.

Transcontinental railroad

In the late 19th century, "Range Wars" in the West were between...

White American ranchers and farmers

__________ headed the most popular Wild West shows in the late 19th century

buffalo bill cody

In the 1840s and 1850s, in the Far West, the response by white Americans to the Chinese...

moved from initial acceptance of them to gradual opposition

the western farmers first and most burning grievance was directed against ____________

railroads

Range wars in the West were fought between farmers and __________

ranchers

During the 19th century, in the Far West the term "coolie"

referred to Chinese indentured servants.

In his writing during the late 1800s, the popular author Hamlin Garland...

reflected the growing disillusionment of western farmers.


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