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By the mid-1840s, the American West |
was extensively populated |
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Which of the following Indian tribes was NOT found on the Pacific coast of the Far West? |
Creek |
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In the mid-nineteenth century, the Plains Indians were |
the most widespread Indian groups in the West |
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Which tribe should NOT be included among the Plains Indians? |
the Chumash |
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Which of the following statements regarding Hispanic New Mexico is FALSE? |
Taos Indians, allied with Navajo and Apaches, forced out Anglo-Americans until 1847 |
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During the 1840s, Hispanics living in California |
lost ownership of large areas of lands |
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During the nineteenth century, in the Far West the term "coolie" |
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 |
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 |
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 |
San Francisco |
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Chinese "tongs" were |
secret societies |
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The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 |
resulted in the deportation of half of the Chinese in the United States |
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The Homestead Act of 1862 |
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 |
Colorado |
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In the second half of the nineteenth century, the working class in the western economy was |
both A and B |
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In the late nineteenth century, which of the following was NOT a major western industry? |
fur trading |
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Mining in the west |
produced the region’s first economic boom |
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The Comstock Lode primarily produced |
silver |
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Women in nineteenth-century western mining towns |
often found work doing domestic tasks |
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The western cattle industry saw Mexican ranchers first develop |
all of the above |
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In the 1860s, cattle drives from Texas to Missouri |
both A and B |
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After the Civil War, cattle driven on the Chisholm Trail ended the journey in |
Abilene, Kansas |
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In the late nineteenth century, "Range wars" in the West were between |
white American ranchers and farmers |
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In the 1880s, the open range cattle industry declined as a result of |
drought |
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In the late nineteenth century, the popular image of the American West |
both A and B |
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The "Rocky Mountain School" of painting |
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 |
portrayed as a simple and virtuous frontiersman |
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William Cody’s Wild West shows |
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 |
James Whistler |
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In "The Significance of the Frontier in American History," Frederick Jackson Turner claimed |
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 |
wards of the president of the United States |
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In the 1850s, the United States policy of "concentration" for Indians |
assigned all tribes to their own defined reservations |
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The decimation of American buffalo herds of the late nineteenth century |
both A and B |
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The Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 |
involved the killing of Indian women and children |
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The 1876 Battle of Little Big Horn |
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 |
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 |
Geronimo |
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In 1890, the "Ghost Dance" |
was a spiritual revival among Plains Indians |
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In 1890, at Wounded Knee, South Dakota |
the U.S. Seventh Cavalry massacred two hundred Indians |
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The Dawes Act of 1887 |
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 |
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 |
barbed wire |
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In the late nineteenth century, in regards to western agriculture |
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? |
state governments |
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During the late nineteenth century, Plains farm life |
often lacked access to the outside world |
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In his writings during the late 1800s, the popular author Hamlin Garland |
reflected the growing disillusionment of western farmers |
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