Exam 16: The Conquest of the Far West

The western working class was highly multiracial and stratified along racial lines.

The Homestead Act of 1862

By the end of the nineteenth century, the Hispanic presence in California was concentrated in the working class.

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

The number of men in mining towns greatly outnumbered the number of women.

American Indians were generally accepting and supportive of the terms of the Dawes Act.

Range wars in the West were often fought between ranchers and ________.

In 1890 at Wounded Knee, South Dakota,

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

The most valuable mineral in the great Comstock Lode was gold.

In the mid-nineteenth century, Hispanic society in the Southwest grew, despite the increasing Anglo-American settlement in that area.

The western farmers' first and most burning grievance was directed against the ________.

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

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

The federal government reservation policy known as "concentration" had few benefits for either whites or Indians.

In the late nineteenth century, why was assimilation between the peoples of the United States and Indian tribes difficult to attain?

By ancestry, the western cattle industry was Mexican and Texan.

Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Moran were painters from the "________ School" who celebrated the West in their art.

The most widespread Indian groups in the West were the ________.

Chinese tongs were