WEST

In the 1870s and 1880s, novels and art

Made the West look more appealing

Because of railroad collusion

People were at the mercy of high rail freight shipping charges

Cowboys fighting over open land in the West for the purpose of ranching grew into the

Range Wars

One major engineering feat of the 1860s was ____________________ which linked San Francisco to Omaha in a much faster connection than the wagon.

Transcontinental railroad

Regarding the Native Wars, after the Civil War

The U.S. Army increased its efforts of attacking and removing Native Americans

As Western states filled with more people they were organized into states, except for _________ which was prevented from joining the Union until the question of polygamy was answered.

Utah

Exodusters

Moved to the Plains to get away from racism and find economic opportunity

The Homestead Act

Encouraged people to move out West and settle on land

The Nez Perce, Sioux, and Apache

Were all hunted down by the U.S. Army ending in brutal attacks

People of Spanish and Mexican ancestry who remained in Texas as it swapped from Mexico to the U.S. are called

Tejanos

During the 1870s and 1880s, the Bureau of Indian Affairs

Was corrupt and typically cheated and starved Native Americans

When Oklahoma was opened to White settlement, the people who settled it were named

Sooners

_________ was largely responsible for bringing supplies to towns of the American West and taking cattle out of the West to meatpacking towns like Chicago.

Railroads

How did Wyoming encourage more people to settle its territory so it could become a state?

It allowed women the right to vote

One of the advantages of economies of scale like larger farms is that

It usually leads to cheaper prices

The Dawes Act

Created opportunity for White people to steal land from Native Americans

Why were so many immigrants welcomed to mining towns in the American West?

There was a labor shortage, so workers were needed, no matter ethnicity

Because settlers in California stated to see Chinese immigrants as an economic threat, they began restricting their rights, where they could live, and what they could do. In response, the Chinese

Began to form tongs to fight back and support each other

The Battle of Wounded Knee

Was effectively the last large battle between the U.S. Army and Natives

Often when Native Americans attacked White wagon trains

It was because White people had instigated conflicts

Some of the earliest technology used by cattle ranchers in the American West came from

Mexican vaqueros

One of the most culturally destructive parts of the Dawes Act was

Forcing Native children to attend schools and abandon Native ways

Little Bighorn

Was a loss by the American Army that fueled a final brutal push against Native Americans

The ________ were originally welcomed to the West to help with building the Trans-Continental Railroad but later excluded to neighborhoods and had their rights restricted by legislation.

Chinese

"Drives" in the 1870s and 1880s connected which two elements?

Cattle and rail lines

As mining encouraged more people to move to the American West, the raw materials that were mined were

Used in factories in the Eastern part of the U.S.

The invention that revolutionized cattle ranching in the American West was

Barbed wire

An army division of African American soldiers who fought in the West were named

Buffalo Soldiers

Unlike farming in the eastern part of the United States, farming in the Plains and West had to specialize in

Dry farming

In the 1870s Californian policy makers began a racist practice of discriminating Latinos to undesirable neighborhoods called

Barrios

One way that rail companies were encouraged to build more rail lines across the American West was by

States and the federal government offering land as reward for rail lines

The lack of water in the 1880s West led to the development of

Reservoirs

Another way that caused people to fall in love with the West was through presentations like

Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Shows

For the Sioux, the Ghost Dance was

Part of religious revival

The Red River Wars were waged against people who eventually settled the northern parts of what state?

Texas

One unique group that migrated to parts of Minnesota, the Dakotas, and Iowa were

Scandinavians

In the mid 1800s, Native Americans in the U.S. Plains relied heavily on which two animals for transport and food?

Horse and buffalo

In the West, the primary role of the cowboy was to

Herd cattle and sheep

The Comstock Lode

Was a successful mine in Nevada

In the 1870s and 1880s, meat became easier to ship because of

The refrigerated boxcar