Exam 2: The Contested West, 1865-1900

What happened at the Sand Creek Massacre in November 1864?

What was the Ghost Dance?

For what reason were African American troops,known as Buffalo soldiers,serving in the West during the Indian Wars?

Which of the following characterizes life for women on the western frontier in the late nineteenth century?

Which of the following describes women in Virginia City by 1870?

For what reason did hundreds of thousands of Americans migrate to the West in the three decades after 1870?

Along with the Homestead Act of 1862,which factor helped stimulate the land rush in the trans-Mississippi West?

Which of the following describes the impact of the wealth produced in the Nevada mining industry?

Which fleeing Indian tribe was hunted down by the U.S.army just 50 miles from Canada in 1877?

Which was the largest ethnic group in the western mining district of the United States in the late nineteenth century?

According to Map 17.2: Western Mining,1848-1890,in which state was lead available?

What was the outcome of the Dawes Allotment Act of 1887?

How did the landscape of the trans-Mississippi West change between 1870 and 1900?

How did the Utah legislature counter the criticism of polygamy in 1870?

Which group or groups decimated the buffalo herds on the Great Plains in the late nineteenth century?

By the 1870s,homesteaders discovered that most of the prime land in the West was

Which of the following is true of labor unions in the western mining industry?

Who was Geronimo?

What was the outcome of the second Treaty of Fort Laramie?

What were the "chips" that served as the most prevalent form of fuel used for cooking and heating in the plains in the latter half of the nineteenth century?