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Pueblo society was noted for its

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agriculture and trade with Mexican ranchers

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Where did cattle ranching and cattle drives originate

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Texas

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American forces commanded by George Armstrong Custer were overwhelmed in

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the Battle of Little Bighorn

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the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroad companies relied heavily on the low-paid and difficult work done by

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Irish and Chinese immigrants

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What conflict came to symbolize the brutality associated with the conquest of the West

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the Wounded Knee Massacre

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Posters encouraging migration, such as this one, associated prosperity with

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land ownership

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The Ghost Dancers alarmed federal officials because of their

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potential to foster rebellion

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This painting by George Catlin reveals his

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***appreciation of native American culture

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which statement best characterizes American Agriculture in the second half of the nineteenth century

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farmers were vulnerable to market forces

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what triggered the brief political success of the grange

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the panic of 1873

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what does this image celebrate

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the westward migration of the exoduses

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the treatment of both native American and the environment revealed what about western settlement

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**** its narrow focus on exploitation and gain

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which of the following was a common consequence of the adoption of horses by many native American tribes

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**** increased migration and contact with whites

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Buffalo Bills, Wild West was popular for all the following reason except that

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it provided an accurate representation of the west

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Images such as this sculpture by Horatio Greenough promoted the idea that

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native Americans were violent savages

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how did the us government view its treaties with native Americans

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*****as generally negotiated in bad faith

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which group were frequent victims of violence in mining towns

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Chinese immigrants

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in education native American children as required by the dawes severalty act, the government opted to establish

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off-reservation boarding schools where children were required to abandon there native American ways

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in the 1990s the site of the battle of little bighorn

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was renamed

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which topic is likely to be stressed by a new western historian

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the diversity of the west

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those who migrated west from the late 1840s onward shared

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a desire for opportunity

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the morrill land grant college act was designed to promote

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agricultural and technical education

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how did native American maintain their resistance even after the conclusion of armed conflict with euro American settlers

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by maintaining their culture

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the English author William blackmore considered the demise of native American to be inevitable and he

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**** saw them as giving way to a higher and more civilized race

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in the west, the industrial revolution took the form of railroads and

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*****mining

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the central pacific railroad began its work on the transcontinental railroad in

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California

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It took months for US troops to capture a small band of apaches led by

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Geronimo

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Sarah Winnemucca advocated for

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the maintenance of Indian cultures

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All of the following contributed o native Americans difficulties in resisting the encroachments of Americans except

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**** the decimation of the buffalo on which many depended

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what happened at wounded knee, south Dakota in 1890

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more than 200 hundred Sioux ghost dancers were slaughtered

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Indian boarding schools established under the Dawes Severalty act operated on the principle of \"kill the Indian and save the man\"

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True

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Annie Oakley completely discredited Victorian ideals of femininity

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False

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Though western farmers generally benefited from the railroads, the passage of granger laws in the 1870s revealed tension in the relationship

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True

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East finally met West on May 10 1869 when the transcontinental railroad was completed

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True

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The battle of Little Bighorn was a crushing defeat for Custer and his men, but propaganda in the east nevertheless portrayed the American soldiers as valiant

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True

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mark twains major novels, the adventures of tom sawyer and the adventures of huckleberry finn, incorporated common western themes

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False

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until 1900,railroads were unique to the eastern united states

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False

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The American cowboy owes much of his culture and traditions to Mexican vaqueros

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True

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Artists and intellectuals of the nineteenth century romanticized the image of cowboys as rugged individuals

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True

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Native American children initially resented boarding schools, but most eventually came to value their education there

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False

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Notably excluded from this photograph celebrating the completion of the transcontinental railroad were

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the Chinese laborers who helped build it

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All of the following tribes lived on the great plains expect the

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chinook

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Which statement best describes the native american tribes that lived west of the mississippi

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a wide spectrum of tribes had successfully adapted to a variety of environments

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As seen in this photograph, Annie oakley was typically portrayed as

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combining feminine beauty with masculine strength

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what was the purpose of the annual long drives

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to bring cattle to market

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What do films such as dances with wolves and unforgiven represent

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sorrowful memorials to the closing of the american frontier

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what caused hardships for wheat farmers on the plains in the 1800s

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agricultural competition from foreign nations

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who profited most from western mining booms

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corporate mining operations

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Which of the following indicates that the social status of the white man in this picture was higher than that of the other cowboys

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his standing in the foreground

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The second Fort Laramie treaty was violated when

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gold was discovered in the black hills

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The grangers were members of a society of

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western farmers

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annie oakley was born and raised in

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ohio

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Americans generally viewed buffalo as

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obstacles to development

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as a results of the dawes severalty act

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native Americans lost a large portion of their land

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The monument commemorating the native american who fell at the battle of little bighorn celebrates the unity of sioux, cheyenne, and araphaho warriors even as it symbolically protrays

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how Americans have relied on an incomplete and overly simplistic understanding of the history of the American west

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In counting coup, Plains warriors earned respect by

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confronting the enemy at very close range

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According to his Frontier Thesis, Frederick Jackson Turner proposed all of the following of the western frontier except that

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it contributed to the creation of a classless society

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how did helen hunt jackson call attention to the unjust treatment of native americans

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by writing a book

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In the sand creek massacre

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American forces slaughtered peaceful Cheyenne

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How did the railroad benefit western farmers most

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It enabled them to get their products to market

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Charles Russell's painting The Herd Quitters could BEST be viewed as symbolizing what view of the West

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as a place of heroism, daring and manly individualism

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The homestead act

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granted land to settlers willing and able to farm the land for five years

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Mark Twain's novels were marked by their celebration of

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adventure and individualism

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The main goal of the Dawes Severalty act was

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assimilation

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Much of the culture of the American cowboy was derived from the traditions of which group

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mexicans

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The invention of barbed wire was a boon to open-range ranchers

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False

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The \"Exodusters\" were African Americans who moved West to escape violence and poverty in the South

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True

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Native American possessions shrank rapidly from 1850 to 1890

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True

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Whereas mining in the West was devastating to the environment, western agriculture was generally beneficial to ecosystems

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False

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The Frontier Thesis of Frederick Jackson Turner challenged many romantic notions of the West that prevailed in the nineteenth century

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False

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The American cowboy owes much of his culture and traditions to Mexican vaqueros

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True

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