Exam 16: The Conquest of the West

The two railroads joined in 1869 to form the first transcontinental railroad were the

Under the _______, Indians who accepted land allotments, lived "separate from any tribe," and "adopted the habits of civilized life" were allowed to become U.S. citizens.

One of the worst massacres committed by white troops in the Indian Wars occurred in 1864 at

Summarize the characteristics that many Native American tribes on the Great Plains shared.

In its treaties with Native Americans, the American government generally

The United States treated each tribe

On the eve of the Civil War, the American Indians in the West

The government's administration of Indian affairs was notable over the years for its

General George A. Custer's greatest mistake at Little Bighorn was that he

The ability of the Plains Indians to resist white expansion was severely damaged by the

________ was a former slave who became famous as the cowboy nicknamed "Deadwood Dick."

Roughing It (1872) by Mark Twain provides us with our most famous pictures of the

One result of the gold and silver rushes of the late nineteenth century was

Because they epitomized freedom and self-reliance, the Plains Indians seldom adopted the products of white culture.

Cattle herds were driven across the unsettled grasslands of the ________ Trail on their way to the railroad at Abilene, Kansas.

Barbed wire was invented by

Although the image of the nineteenth century West is of thinly populated, wide-open spaces, by the late 1870s ________ already had almost 250,000 inhabitants.

What accounted for the profitability of open-range ranching?

The Homestead Act of 1862

The gigantic corporation-controlled farms that were created to take advantage of the newly available acreage in the South and West were known as