US history ch 16 – Flashcards
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By the mid-1840s, the American West
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was extensively populated
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Which of the following Indian tribes was NOT found on the Pacific coast of the Far West?
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Creek
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In the mid-nineteenth century, the Plains Indians were
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the most widespread Indian groups in the West
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Which tribe should NOT be included among the Plains Indians?
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the Chumash
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Which of the following statements regarding Hispanic New Mexico is FALSE?
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Taos Indians, allied with Navajo and Apaches, forced out Anglo-Americans until 1847
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During the 1840s, Hispanics living in California
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lost ownership of large areas of lands
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During the nineteenth century, in the Far West the term "coolie"
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referred to Chinese indentured servants
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In the 1840s and 1850s, in the Far West, the response by white Americans to the Chinese
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moved from initial acceptance of them to gradual opposition
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The Chinese from California became the major source of labor for the transcontinental railroad because
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they worked for lower wages than what whites would accept
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In the 1870s, in the Far West the largest single Chinese community was located in
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San Francisco
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Chinese "tongs" were
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secret societies
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The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
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resulted in the deportation of half of the Chinese in the United States
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The Homestead Act of 1862
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was expanded by the Timber Culture Act
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By 1900, one of the three American territories that had not been granted statehood was
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Colorado
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In the second half of the nineteenth century, the working class in the western economy was
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both A and B
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In the late nineteenth century, which of the following was NOT a major western industry?
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fur trading
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Mining in the west
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produced the region's first economic boom
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The Comstock Lode primarily produced
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silver
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Women in nineteenth-century western mining towns
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often found work doing domestic tasks
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The western cattle industry saw Mexican ranchers first develop
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all of the above
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In the 1860s, cattle drives from Texas to Missouri
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both A and B
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After the Civil War, cattle driven on the Chisholm Trail ended the journey in
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Abilene, Kansas
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In the late nineteenth century, "Range wars" in the West were between
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white American ranchers and farmers
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In the 1880s, the open range cattle industry declined as a result of
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drought
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In the late nineteenth century, the popular image of the American West
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both A and B
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The "Rocky Mountain School" of painting
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helped inspire a growth of tourism in the West
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In Owen Wister's novel, The Virginian (1902), the American cowboy was
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portrayed as a simple and virtuous frontiersman
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William Cody's Wild West shows
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proved to be popular in Europe as well as the United States
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All of the following writers and artists made significant contributions to the romanticizing of the American West EXCEPT
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James Whistler
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In "The Significance of the Frontier in American History," Frederick Jackson Turner claimed
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the frontier had made Americans distinctive people
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Before 1860, the traditional policy of the federal government was to regard Indians as
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wards of the president of the United States
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In the 1850s, the United States policy of "concentration" for Indians
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assigned all tribes to their own defined reservations
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The decimation of American buffalo herds of the late nineteenth century
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both A and B
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The Sand Creek Massacre of 1864
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involved the killing of Indian women and children
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The 1876 Battle of Little Big Horn
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was a short-lived Indian victory
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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
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Chief Joseph
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In 1886, the end of formal warfare between the United States and American Indians was marked by the surrender of
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Geronimo
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In 1890, the "Ghost Dance"
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was a spiritual revival among Plains Indians
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In 1890, at Wounded Knee, South Dakota
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the U.S. Seventh Cavalry massacred two hundred Indians
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The Dawes Act of 1887
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was viewed by the United States government as a plan to save the Indians
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In the late nineteenth century, the western agricultural economy
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saw the railroad become the most important factor in its development
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In the late nineteenth century, fences for Plains farms were usually made from
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barbed wire
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In the late nineteenth century, in regards to western agriculture
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commercial farmers were not self-sufficient and made little effort to become so
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Which of the following was NOT a significant source of resentment for the late nineteenth-century farmers?
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state governments
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During the late nineteenth century, Plains farm life
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often lacked access to the outside world
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In his writings during the late 1800s, the popular author Hamlin Garland
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reflected the growing disillusionment of western farmers
