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10/17/2011
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The last major chapter in the Indian wars took place at
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Wounded Knee Creek
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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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Important factors in promoting settlement of the Great Plains was (were)
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all of these are correct.
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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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The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
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banned Chinese in the United States from becoming naturalized citizens.
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By 1900, one of the three American territories in the contiguous United States that had not been granted statehood was
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Arizona.
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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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The Comstock Lode primarily produced
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silver.
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The town which reigned as the railhead of the cattle kingdom for many years was
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Abilene, Kansas.
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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 a distinctive people.
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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 1876 Battle of Little Big Horn
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was a short-lived Indian victory.
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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, fences for Plains farms were usually made from
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barbed wire.
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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 any access to the outside world.
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In the 1880s, the open range cattle industry declined as a result of
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drought and blizzards.
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Plains Indians were formidable foes of white settlers because they were usually able to present a united front against those white settlers.
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False
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A homestead unit of 160 acres was too small for grain farming on the Great Plains.
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True
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By the end of the nineteenth century, the American West was firmly tied to the increasingly powerful industrial economy of the East.
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True
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During the latter half of the nineteenth century, the structure of the cattle industry became increasingly corporate.
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True
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Late nineteenth-century American farmers increasingly sold their produce in competitive international markets and bought their supplies in a domestic market protected by tariffs.
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True
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