Honors US: Ch. 22 – Flashcards
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The first large gold rush of the 1800s occurred in
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The mountains of Colorado
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All of the following statements are true about typical mining towns except
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As towns developed, local agriculture and transportation decreased
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Which statement about prostitutes in mining towns is NOT true?
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Most prostitutes were able to save enough to buy small homes or businesses
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In Roughing It, Mark Twain wrote that men became influential in mining towns by selling
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Whiskey
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What was significant about the town of Bodie, California between 1877 and 1883?
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It had a homicide rate higher than that of any US city
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Which group suffered from the most prejudice in mining towns?
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Chinese-Americans
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Mining eventually became a corporate operation because
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Massive capital investment I'm equipment was conducive to financial success
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The mining industry entered a new era of commercial success with the mining of
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Quartz
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The development of mining technology resulted in
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Less use of skilled labor
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Violence and conflict often erupted between miners and mine owners due to
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Conditions caused by the industrialization of mining
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The Dawes Act passed to
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Force Native Americans to adopt the Western culture and farming practices
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The Dawes Act
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Tried to turn Native Americans into farmers who would form their own individual plots only
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Which Native American nation is the most associated with Wounded Knee?
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Sioux
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What did the events that took place between Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce and the federal government illustrate about us Native American relations in the late 19th century?
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Violent conflict continue to be waged between the Native Americans and the government
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What was the main focus of the Ghost Dance movement?
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Restoring the traditional way of life to Native Americans and repelling white settlement
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In what ways did the Dawes Act affect the status of American Indians?
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Tribal land was transferred to individual Indian families
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Which statement best describes the cultures of the tribes that lived in throughout the West?
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A wide spectrum of tribes had successfully adapted their lives to a variety of environments
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The speakers of the words was
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Sioux Chief, Sitting Bull
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Who is they in the quote?
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European American settlers
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Which statement best describes the speaker's meaning of this mysterious power?
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The gods whose spirits are alive in a shared earth
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When the speaker for first two fences and buildings he is expressing disenchantment with
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The whites rigid territorial belief in private property
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The speaker concludes that we cannot live side by side because
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He feels like will never stop wanting Indian land
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What event in 1848 started a huge influx of whites into Indian territory?
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Discovery of gold
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Which statement about the Sand Creek Massacre is not true?
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The fighting began when Indians attacked a mining town
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Whites destroyed the Buffalo hurts for all of the following reasons except
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The government believed the Indians with survive better with fewer Buffalo
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Ecological disasters that played the cattle Kingdom included all of the following EXCEPT
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A series of deadly tornadoes that destroyed commercial ranges
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The Homestead Act
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Guaranteed three acres of land to citizens who farm the land for five years
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Many farmers of the Great Plains tried to growing wheat because
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It was more resistant to drought than corn
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S Western farming was incorporated into national life it were light on all of the following EXCEPT
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Foreign capital
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In the 1880s western farmers were plagued by severe drought and
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Protective trade barriers established by foreign nations
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White pioneers on the Great Plains face all of the following problems except
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The loud clamoring of crowded neighbors who rushed to building housing
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The Westward Expansion had all of the following effects except
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Vast wealth for many pioneers
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Which statement would have most likely been said by a member of las gorras Blancas
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"we raid at night, if needed, to stop the Anglo encroachment on our land"
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A lot of timber cost a shortage of fencing that was finally solved by
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The invention of barbed wire
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Railroad companies encourage settlers to come to the west
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So they would grow food that would be transported on rail lines
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Those farmers who were successful on the Great Plains
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Relied on the assistance of other settlers around them
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Exodusters were
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Southern blacks went west to settle
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The _ was an area Texans used to drive their cattle through Indian Territory northwards to Abilene
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Chisholm Trail
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What event happened last?
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Transcontinental Railroad completed
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All of the following statements about cattle Kingdom are true except
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Large-scale capital investment was not a major part of the cattle kingdom
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Joseph McCoy made an important decision when he
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Establish a northern shipping point for cattle in Abilene
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Primary duties of gunfighters-turned-sheriffs such as Wyatt Earp often included
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Arresting drunks and collecting fine
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The corporate cattle boom collapse because
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Corporations overstocked ranges which cost ecological disaster
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The function of the Morrill land-grant Act of 1862 was to
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Assist states with establishing colleges
