Exam 16: The Conquest of the Far West

During the latter half of the nineteenth century, the structure of the cattle industry became increasingly corporate.

Late nineteenth-century American farmers increasingly sold their produce in competitive international markets and bought their supplies in a domestic market protected by tariffs.

What economic factors would motivate someone to move to the West during the second half of the nineteenth century?

The real West of the mid-nineteenth century bore little resemblance to its popular image.

By 1900, one of the three American territories in the contiguous United States that had NOT been granted statehood was

Compare the myths and the realities of the American cowboy.

Women in western mining towns were almost always prostitutes.

The Sand Creek Massacre was a rare story of Indians killing whites.

Plains Indians were not particularly vulnerable to infectious diseases brought from the eastern United States.

Early in 1866, a massive joint cattle drive from Texas to Missouri

The Workingmen's Party of California was created in 1878 by Irish immigrant ________ to capitalize on hostility to the Chinese.

Custer's defeat at Little Bighorn in 1876 was made possible in part by an unusually large gathering of tribal warriors.