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By the mid-1840s, the American West

was extensively populated

Which of the following Indian tribes was NOT found on the Pacific coast of the Far West

Creek

In the mid-nineteenth century, the Plains Indians were

the most widespread Indian groups in the West

Which tribe should NOT be included among the Plains Indians

Yurok

Which of the following statements regarding Hispanic New Mexico is FALSE

Taos Indians, allied with Navajos and Apaches, forced out Anglo-Americans until 1847

During the mid-nineteenth century, Hispanics living in California

lost ownership of large areas of lands

During the nineteenth century, in the Far West the term “coolie”

referred to Chinese indentured servants

In the 1840s and 1850s, in the Far West, the response by white Americans to the Chinese

moved from initial acceptance to gradual hostility

The Chinese from California became the major source of labor for the transcontinental

railroad in part because

they worked for lower wages than what whites would accept.

In the 1870s in the Far West, the largest single Chinese community was located in

San Francisco

Chinese tongs were

secret societies.

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

banned Chinese in the United States from becoming naturalized citizens

The Homestead Act of 1862

was expanded by the Timber Culture Act

By 1900, one of the three American territories in the contiguous United States that had NOT

been granted statehood was

Arizona

In the second half of the nineteenth century, the working class in the western economy was

All these answers are correct

In the late nineteenth century, which of the following was NOT a major western industry that

relied on the East for markets and capital

fur trading

Mining in the West

saw individual prospectors move in first, followed by corporations

The Comstock Lode primarily produced

silver

Women in nineteenth-century western mining towns

often found work doing domestic tasks

The western cattle industry saw Mexican ranchers first develop

All these answers are correct.

Early in 1866, a massive joint cattle drive from Texas to Missouri

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The town that reigned as the railhead of the cattle kingdom for many years was

Abilene, Kansas

In the late nineteenth century, “range wars” in the West were often between

white American ranchers and farmers

In the mid-1880s, the open-range cattle industry declined as a result of

severe weather

In the late nineteenth century, the popular image of the American West

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The Rocky Mountain School of painting

helped inspire the growth of tourism in the West

In Owen Wister’s novel, The Virginian (1902), the American cowboy was

portrayed as a simple and virtuous frontiersman

William Cody’s Wild West shows

proved to be popular in Europe as well as the United States

All of the following writers and artists made significant contributions to the romanticizing of

the American West EXCEPT

James Whistler

In “The Significance of the Frontier in American History,” Frederick Jackson Turner claimed

that the end of the “frontier” also marked the end of one of the most important democratizing

forces in American life.

Before 1860, the traditional policy of the federal government was to regard Indians partly as

members of dependent states

In the 1850s, the U.S. policy of “concentration” for Indians

assigned all tribes to their own defined reservations

The decimation of American buffalo herds in the late nineteenth century

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The Sand Creek Massacre of 1864

involved the killing of Indian women and children

The 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn

was a short-lived Indian victory

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

In 1886, the end of formal warfare between the United States and American Indians was

marked by the surrender of

Geronimo

In 1890, the “Ghost Dance”

was a spiritual revival among Plains Indians.

In 1890 at Wounded Knee, South Dakota,

the U.S. Seventh Cavalry massacred more than 300 Indians

The Dawes Act of 1887

was designed to force Indians to become landowners and farmers

In the late nineteenth century, the surge of farming settlement in the West

In the late nineteenth century, the surge of farming settlement in the West

In the late nineteenth century, fences for Plains farms were usually made from

barbed wire.

In the late nineteenth century, regarding western agriculture

commercial farmers were not self-sufficient and made little effort to become so

The western farmers’ first and most burning grievance was against

the railroads

During the late nineteenth century, Plains farm life

often lacked any access to the outside world.

In his writings during the late 1800s, the popular author Hamlin Garland

reflected the growing disillusionment of western farmers.