Exam 15: Conflict and Conquest: the Transformation of the West, 1860-1900

-Why was the mining industry able to use environmentally harmful methods such as open-pit mining in places like Minnesota's Mesabi Range as illustrated in this photograph?

The Ghost Dancers alarmed federal officials because of their .

-As seen in this photograph, Annie Oakley was typically portrayed as .

In addition to epidemics of smallpox and measles, what other factor introduced by Euro- Americans compromised the health of many Native Americans?

What was one common feature shared by most Native American tribes on the Great Plains?

-How did the photographer manipulate the image "The Medicine Man Taken at Wounded Knee, S.D."?

-What was the primary reason during the 1870s and 1880s for the staggering extermination of the buffalo, which reduced their population by nearly three million and resulted in massive piles of skulls sent to fertilizer plants?

Why did the Mormons under the leadership of Brigham Young migrate west to Utah?

-What motivated whites to attack and kill 28 Chinese miners in Rock Springs, Wyoming, as shown in this 1885 drawing from Harper's Weekly?

-What made the content of the 1883 railroad promotional poster "California, Cornucopia of the World" ironic?

-This 1869 iconic photograph that shows the completion of the transcontinental railroad in Promontory Point, Utah, is notable for its exclusion of the .

-How did this cartoon, which was published in the New York Graphic shortly after Custer's defeat at the Battle of Little Big Horn in 1876, depict American Indians like Sitting Bull?

-How did this image from Harper's Weekly capture the hope that many Exodusters expressed as they moved west from the Deep South to Kansas?

-What does this photograph of the four Chrisman sisters standing in front of their sod home in Custer County, Nebraska, reveal about life on the Great Plains?

How does John Gast's 1872 painting American Progress reveal the bitter conflict that accompanied the transformation of the West?

According to his Frontier Thesis, Frederick Jackson Turner proposed that the western frontier

What incident led Nez Perce Chief Joseph to comment "My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever"?

How did the railroad benefit Western farmers most?

Many of the traditions associated with American cowboys originated with the .

-What did these 1890s before-and-after photographs of Chiricahua Apache children at the Carlisle Boarding School in Pennsylvania reveal about the expectations for Native Americans under the Dawes Severalty Act?