US
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.
