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Chapter 18
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11th Grade
03/27/2013

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The last battle between the U.S. Army and American Indians, often recognized symbolically as the death of Plains Indian culture, was fought at
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Wounded Knee.
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"Jim Crow" laws
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mandated racial segregation in public facilities.
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In 1890, the Bureau of Census announced that
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the frontier which had separated the settled from unsettled areas of the continent, no longer existed.
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Most laborers in the west
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were itinerant and temporary.
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The Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson stated that
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the Fourteenth Amendment did not apply to private acts of discrimination.
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The most environmentally destructive type of mining in California's gold rush was
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hydraulic.
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Most of the New South's iron and steel industry was concentrated in
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northern Alabama.
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Texas Rangers
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often acted as vigilantes for Anglos in retaliating against Mexican Americans.
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Longhorn cattle were introduced in southern Texas by
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the Spaniards.
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The U.S. Army encouraged the slaughter of millions of buffalo
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in order to weaken the Plains Indians by depriving them of their source of food, clothing, and shelter.
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Charles Guiteau is noted as the
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paranoid schizophrenic who assassinated James A. Garfield.
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All of the following statements regarding homesteading on the Great Plains are not true except
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the northern Plains were heavily populated by foreign-born residents.
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The Battle of Little Bighorn in which George A. Custer and his men were killed occurred after
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whites had entered the sacred Black Hills seeking gold.
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In the mining frontier,
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he largest and most profitable mines were owned by large mining corporations.
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All of the following statements regarding the Chinese in California are true except they
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were unable to develop communities owing to a shortage of women.
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The Cheyenne at Sand Creek were led by
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Black Kettle
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Southern cotton mills had a competitive advantage over northern mills because of
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cheap labor, made up mostly of poor native southern whites.
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The Dawes Severalty Act
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offered each Indian head of family 160 acres of farmland or 320 acres of grazing land.
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By the 1890s, southern farmers were importing nearly ____ of their food.
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one-half
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Ida Wells was an advocate for
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southern blacks.
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The goal of the Indian schools was
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assimilation into American culture.
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Most cowboys in the Old West were
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laborers who worked for industrial corporations.
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In the years following the Civil War the southern agricultural economy
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depended on the crop lien system.
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The first immigration restriction legislation in the U.S. was directed toward
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Chinese migration.
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According to Frederick Jackson Turner, American character and culture were primarily influenced by
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the existence of the frontier and the westward movement.
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The "Battle" of Wounded Knee
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symbolized the death of the Plains Indians' way of life.
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By 1890, the Sioux and other reservation Indians
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were reduced to lives of poverty, depression, and alcoholism.
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All of the following statements regarding race relations during the New South period are true except
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lynching and racial violence declined significantly.
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